welcome to the social regressive! please excuse the damaged eye. I think it is
healing. it feels a little bit better today. what we're gonna take a look at
today are some range bags. in the past in some of the demonstration videos that
you've seen me do at all kinds of different distances we've used a couple
of different things to try to get neatly on target. of course you want a
nice solid bipod up front if you're doing really precision work like with
the long range you know the mile test that we just did we're here recently and
make sure you go check that video out because we were starting to get more
consistent hits out of that distance but for those kinds of tests a lot of time
it's difficult to use some of these really nice leather bags like this one
this is a protector rear bag I'm gonna put a link in the description below so
you can check this one out this one is you see this all the time
out at the range a lot of the competitors use these there are a couple
different models some with kind of a hard base this one's this soft based
model some are taller than others and this is one that I've been using for a
good long while and it is it's quite tough of course it's you know it's a
nice kind of thick leather has a little bit of squish to it and this one just
plants itself because it's kind of heavy now this can be a bit of a problem for
some of the types of work that you might want to do like maybe you're
getting out into the field doing some some kind of mid range hunting where
you're gonna have to get down low with a rifle and you know for things like that
you don't want to be carrying around a big old brick of leather and what I
assume to be small rocks in there and maybe you don't want to be carrying
around a sock full of rocks either because again this is kind of heavy this
does work though I've used these for quite a bit of testing but what we have
here are some new models from champion these right here come in a variety of
form factors they're actually a couple of others that are not shown on the
table here these are the three that I'm going to be testing out because I think
they're going to be really kind of flexible for range use and for getting
out in the field this little guy right here you've probably seen a lot like
this this is just a cylinder and this is full of styrofoam beads you can fill
these with airsoft pellets this actually came prefilled and because
it is full of those little styrofoam pellets it is extremely lightweight this
would not be a burden to carry out into the field at all especially since you do
get that little carry handle you've probably seen ones like this like I
mentioned we actually used a Midway one of these on the mile challenge and it
turned out to be just great for that test because with the kind of uneven
terrain that we were dealing with and having to get you know different heights
with different guns this low model which is great for the range just didn't
really work out we weren't able to get quite the heights that we're after and
these can be extremely flexible you can you know kind of squeeze them to
maintain a bit of extra height and then when your rifle pushes down you can kind
of let it sag a little bit if you want it to be able to fit you can turn it
different directions in order to get different heights for whatever setup
that you might have and you can do it all really quickly with something like
this so yeah this one I expect to be using quite a lot in the future this one
is going to be an excellent one for range use this is designed to act as
they call this the wedge bag and you've probably seen a couple like this as well
but it's supposed to fit right along this angle that you get kind of under
the heel toe area of your stock and then this you just kind of push it backward
to decrease your elevation with your rifle and then bring it forward to
increase your elevation this one is yeah just wonderful for bench use and it's
gonna be very solid overall it's gonna sit very neatly on top of or under the
stock here and then it's easy to move back and forth it's also a great width
so that as maybe you're on the bench or at the range it's not knocking against
your your elbows or anything it's gonna it has enough width that it's gonna see
even your widest stocks but then it's not so much that it's gonna be
interfering with anything this is a really cool design one thing I should
point out about both of these is that instead of being the usual Cordura
kind of very thick nylon fabric which you know is fine for a lot of the work
that I've done these use a little bit more of a sticky it's like a rubberized
fabric substance here and I think that this is going to grab onto this stock
very well and be able to hold it and kind of plant with it a little bit
easier then you can see on the underside of this one that where it interfaces
with the bench it'll be doing the same thing you have this kind of rubberized
material so I think that this should do a really good job of staying put when
you're out of the range now this one is kind of the funky one and you might be
wondering what in the world this one could be used for and the hint is right
in here you can use this for mounting on fences barricades and then probably for
some of you hog hunters out there that okay here in Oklahoma the hog population
is so bad that they have basically removed all restrictions on hunting them
you don't have to have even a hunter hunting license when last I checked to
hunt hogs if you want to go out and blaze away at them yeah you don't even
need a hunting license you don't have to do anything you can be hunting from a
vehicle and this is a really cool vehicle bag right here you can mount
this over your windowsill and maybe if you do roll up on those hogs you can
just mount your gun right in this side here and start taking shots out your
window if you get those shots of you know those those targets of opportunity
this is the one that's gonna make it happen and this is one that you could
probably pop between the barbs on barbed wire you know pop that down there yeah
if you're doing competition work a barricade and overall even though this
looks like it should be nice and heavy because it has kind of that polyfill
instead of like rocks or sand or anything like that this actually is
pretty darn portable this would be easy to get around and for you guys that are
taking those shots out the window or whatever and check it out you do get a
little bag here so you can drop your empty brass or
maybe a spare magazine in there that's that's pretty rad I'm not sure about the
prices on these yet as I go into the editing booth and put together the final
version maybe we'll have the an idea of what the real retail prices will be like
but I expect them to be very reasonable because overall champion targets whether
the paper ones the steel ones in general for you know kind of the market prices
these are gonna be on the the lower end even though they're gonna perform really
a lot like the higher end like the Machine wrist that I have down here that
I've been using for a while they do make some pretty uprated stuff at some very
decent prices so thanks a lot for watching you guys make sure that you
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different projectiles are going to be we're gonna be finding out some really
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miss out thanks everybody that has made these videos possible thanks to champion
for sending these bags over for me to test out here in the future and thank
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