Howdy, guys in gals! I'm Kyle Broderick. You're currently standing hip
deep in Social Regressive. Today we're going to take a close look at the Boyd's
At-One stock. I've wanted to test an At-One ever since they came out and
thankfully Boyd's was able to send me this one to evaluate and it has been
just a blast to fire. I've come away with a very high opinion of this and not
just me but some of the other fellow testers that we had in a recent
challenge. We went out and we shot moving targets at 100, 200, 300, and then finally
back at 600 yards; that way we could test some of the various functions on here
which include not just that adjustability so you can get it to
actually fit your shape, but we swapped out some of the parts on here so that we
could test out some of its prone work versus standing and kneeling. We
did everything and we all came away with a really high opinion of this rifle. Now
before we start really delving into this stock and what makes it work the way
that it does I wanted to talk about purpose and right now there are a lot of
options on the market there's some wonderful rifles out there that can be
had for actually very little money you have great options from savage from
Ruger from TC from Remington and these are going to have just great parts on
them like you know they have good barrels they have a good head spacing
system they have solid receivers they have good adjustable triggers nice bolts
and you know really with a lot of these you just can't go wrong they're very
excellent rifles and there's one part in general that's holding them back some of
them are gonna have some upgraded parts if you spend a little bit more money but
in general if you're spending about 300 bucks or below for one of these rifles
you're going to be getting a kind of tupperware stock that's going to have a
lot of flex to it and it's probably not going to fit you particularly well and
then kind of the final facet there that you're gonna be missing is a good
balance so say you pick up a good sport or weight rifle it's gonna have a very
kind of forward heavy feel to it just because there's really no mass back in
the buttstock and you can fix all of these issues with a good wood or
laminate stock like Boyd's offers they have a bunch of great shapes they're
gonna be good for you know say maybe particularly for hunting
maybe particularly for prone and this one is one that kind of purports to be
able to handle all of those situations you should be able to fire this in the
prone with the right parts and you can adjust it to kind of fit various
scenarios before we start jumping into those I just wanted to give a quick
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let's go take a look at what's going on here take a moment to just enjoy the
angles and colors of this stock because it is beautiful this is going to stand
out very much at the range what you're looking at right here is forest camo
laminate and there are a bunch of other options as well including Apple Jack
Black Jack blaze coyote nutmeg pepper royal haka rhonda royal sky and zombie
hunter whether you're a target competitor trying to stand out or a hunter trying
to blend in you're going to find a color that matches your needs I went with this
forest camo since this is going to be my deer rifle and I really want this thing
to blend into my environment out here in eastern Oklahoma these colors should
work really well in the foreground you are looking at coyote laminate and you
can see that this one looks a little bit funky you can get this ripple effect
applied to any of the colors that I mentioned and you end up with this
effect that to me looks a lot like a gaboon viper and if you've ever seen a
gaboon viper and how well they blend into a forest floor it may look a little
funky right now here on my bench or out at the range but watch out if you lay
this rifle down I think it would disappear
I think it's an effective camouflage take a look at this black panel on the
front of the forearm this is the slim panel it has a little bit of a pebbled
texture and finger grooves but this does not have any over molded rubber this is
just a simple polymer it does include to swivel studs which is a great value I'm
really happy that they threw this in that way you can run a bipod or some
other device out front here and then you can still have room for your sling and
it's going to get you a little bit of distance in case you do have kind of a
bull key bipod like this one if you're in the
mood for something that's going to fill your hand a little bit more then check
this out this is a beaver tail steyr style forearm this is going to get you a
little bit more comfort it has kind of an over molded rubber on it and this is
an extra part that you can buy to swap onto your rifle it also includes the
same to swivel studs and yeah generally if you just have larger hands you want a
bit more comfort than the angular surfaces the plains that you get on the
at one straight out of the box you can get that with that beaver tail working
our way back to the trigger guard this is an optional extra that you should
just plain add to the cart unless you absolutely know that the trigger guard
coming off your donor rifle is going to work in the stock this is one where I
had some issues with the Stevens 200 it had a kind of funky trigger guard that's
based on one of the older savage models I guess they just had some extra in
their inventory and it did not fit in there so I had to get this extra steel
one moving back here to the grip area what we're wearing right now this is the
target style grip this one has a bit of a palm swell going on it has some over
molded rubber it's much more vertical and you do also have this that came on
the stock originally the vertical is an option you can buy those panels extra
and they have some really funky ones that have different colors like skulls
and things like that you can get all kinds of zombie green in addition to the
black and yeah so this is the hunter style that sits back really far it has
kind of that hunter angle that you want for when you're leaning forward and
taking your shots and then when you want to go prone or if you just have larger
hands then this grip might work out a little better for you included on each
of the stocks is one of these quick detach sling attachments and one of the
little kind of holes right here for attaching that which is again a really
great value if you have kind of a single point sling or you have a sling that you
want to work out to one of those front QD studs then this is going to work out
well for you and then back here this is the part that you just can't miss
this is where the magic happens this is the adjustable button right here for the
comb and then you have a button for the length of pull the length of pull is
adjustable between I believe it is 12 and a half inches to 14 and they do have
some extras if you want to get into some other lengths of pull or some other
special features like this one right here this buttstock fits into the exact
same position and it actually allows you to adjust vertically you can move this
but pad up and down to get a different style of use if you're going prone
and you want to have a much higher buttstock relative to the boar line then
this is what you want this is that optional extra and then there is a
version that will get you out to I think 15 and a half inch length of pull if
you're one of the bigger guys and you just need a longer length of pull well
we're looking at the buttstock I need to point out a couple of items when the
stock first ships you're going to have some difficulty pressing these buttons
this one has broken in over time and everything's a little bit easier to push
but in general this is under a lot of spring tension to make sure that it does
not collapse especially here on the buttstock this is a heavier spring it
needs to be able to mate up with this screw right here and catch it and keep
it from collapsing under fire so this is going to require quite a bit of tension
to push this in and you might actually need a bench or get this thing on a flat
surface at first in order to to press in this button and collapse or extend the
stock also be careful if you're out in the field and you need to adjust the
stock in any way if you press this button and go a little too far you can
actually end up launching the button out into the woods so make sure that you
have good retention on everything that you have something covering this
otherwise you could lose it the final part we'll look at is this panel on the
underside of the stock it's just plastic it attaches by two screws and it has a
single QD swivel stud for your sling I think in the future we're going to see
some panels coming out for this that might include
a parallel writer if you if you're target competitor and you want a bag writer
that's going to be parallel with your borderline we might see one of those who
might see em lock or Picatinny for people running Mona pods will see how
many parts end up being made for this I think a lot of users will agree with
me that the Boyd's at one stock is very attractive it incorporates a lot of
modern design features including these great big kind of smooth curved panels
that are met by creases and these creases work all the way through the
stock including into this grip area which might be controversial it includes
some creases up here at the top of the wrist you can kind of see an angle going
right here there's another one right over the top and then if you're running
the hunter style grips you're also going to get a pretty sharp corner around the
front of that which deviates from traditional stock design up here at the
front on the handguard you're going to err on the forearm you're gonna have
basically a 90 degree angle going up into here some people might find this to
be a bit much they're gonna feel those hot spots they're gonna be annoyed by it
in my own use and I'm kind of a purist you know really I didn't notice
it all that much it felt pretty darn natural the wrist I think they may have
actually redesigned this a little bit from the original model that they had I
remember it looking very sharp across the top but it looks like they may have
added an extra little bevel here to more easily get the thumb across the top
without feeling hotspots if you buy your at one and find that the angle on the
forearm is a bit too sharp for you don't forget that you can pick up this extra
panel which is going to have more of an organic shape put all these parts and
features together and what do you get is this a form over function stock is it a
gimmick no it's not that at all this is a wonderful stock and in that testing
experience where we were taking shots you know standing sitting kneeling all
the way back to prone in each of those positions I didn't really think about
the stock all that much I mean yeah if I saw it it was beautiful and if I was
just kind of you know messing around with it and feeling some of the facets
you know I was kind of wondering okay how is this gonna feel when I actually
start firing but then actually once the firing started it just became
invisible which is exactly what I want from a stock I
want everything to be adapted to me I don't want to have to be craning around
and you know trying to adapt myself to fit a stock and get behind the scope and
that's exactly how this works so it's just me
trigger target you know in my view through the scope and that was it and it
just felt very natural balance is great since it's putting more of the weight
back here you have some metal parts back on the back end and with that total
overall weight of three pounds going into the stock itself yeah it felt
planted in the in the prone and it felt very balanced especially in the offhand
so it was just natural to fire and don't just take my word for it
let's take a look at some of the notes from some of the other testers so this
is Kendrick the first thing I noticed about the out one stock is of course it
is gorgeous the colors are vibrant and amazing the feel of the finish is great
I don't like the feel of a grippy gloss finish that some wood stocks have this
stock has a perfect smooth satin feel to it it's great the rifle feels solid and
well balanced the at1 stock is a thing of beauty to look at I'm not completely
sold on the angular shape with a forearm in terms of comfort while firing
though the flat bottom is an advantage but that edge resting in my palm felt
inorganic so for him you know probably what he'd want to go with is this more
beaver tail right here it's gonna get you a little bit more of a palm fill and
it's not a super wide beaver tail like you get with some of the you know the
the pure prone rifles out there but this could kind of take some of those edges
out of his palm I've definitely become a huge fan of Boyd stocks having a
beautiful wood stock with the adjustability of the best competition
rifles is the marriage of the best very best of both worlds it's like a
carpenter and a machinist collaborated and had to show off their skills and
yeah I got to agree with that it kind of looks like this should be made of metal
or something just with those crisp edges it reminds me a lot of car design
actually for me I'll go with one of their other forearm options but the hard
part will be choosing between the color options and that's true because there
really are some just these are Cory's notes stock was very
comfortable when firing from the standing kneeling in prone positions
while it was lightweight and would be comfortable to carry in a hunting
situation it absorbed the recoil very well and was comfortable to use from
every position and this is an opinion that I have to mirror the butt pad back
there is kind of thin and or at least it looks thin and like it wouldn't be all
that squishy and then you have the total lightweight configuration of this rifle
and I was expecting it to punch a little bit more in the prone and it really
didn't we could have just shot this thing all day felt great the grips are
nice and being interchangeable makes it easy to adjust to users with various
hand sizes that's a really good point there too if you have some of the bigger
kind of hollow hands and you want something to sort of fill up your hand
you can get a bit more pumps well out of the vertical grip here and you might
want to leave it on for your offhand work as well I'd rather be working
with a more vertical grip when I'm out hunting than one of the swept-back grips
in the prone the adjustable butt pad is excellent for users with different
draw lengths and absorb the recoil making for a pleasant outdoor
experience now and this is where I'm gonna deviate with these guys they are
objectively wrong we were firing a $2,500 CMMG Mk3 DTR2 rifle which
I'm currently reviewing wonderful rifle we were actually firing at the same
moving targets and we just waited till we got a little bit further back on the
range to start firing but everybody kept saying that they actually kind of
enjoyed the the firing experience on this better I totally differ the CMMG
just rocks and you're gonna see in those reviews later what I think of that but
he says here on a side note while firing the CMMG was a really nice
experience and was very enjoyable to use of the two setups I actually
enjoyed firing your 308 set up more it was simple yet effective now that in my
own testing I've kind of proven that this stock works really well in various
scenarios does that mean that this is to be all end all stock you don't need to
look at any of the other shapes and the Boyd's catalog for example no the answer
is no if you want to set up a rifle purely for hunting then you really need
to take a look at the Heritage the classic those are going to have some
slightly more ergonomic shapes and it's going to be set
just purely for hunting you're gonna get that nice Monte Carlo on the Heritage
that's gonna fit your cheek really well this one is adaptable and adjustable for
all kinds of things but if you know that you want one particular kind of use
and you're gonna stick with that then you might want to look at some of the
others that are more fixed it's at least worth a look some of those can also
include the adjustable cheek riser but you might want to take a look at some of
the more hard edge for certain styles of use that you're going to be doing
if you know that you're probably going to be swapping around between a whole
bunch of different users like say you want to you want a rifle that you can
have work from multiple people and your family or you want to be able to do
different types of use like we did here then yeah the at one really is kind
of it's gonna be the go to it just works for everything thanks for watching if
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