in the last video i talked about some of the difficulties that you can have when trying
to get your elevation right and get your cant right on a lot of bye pods and some of the
weirdness
you can get into with some of these harris clones especially and what we're really talking
about mostly is this right here this spring-loaded leg which is just a pain if you ever have
to do anything out in the field i mean if you're actually hum king with a bye pod on
your
rival having to push this down into the ground while spinning this is just awful now there
are all kinds of ways that people can get around the cant issue because you do want
that rival straight up and down with gravity so your bull it doesn't do weird things off
at longer distances and there have been a bunch of different ways that people have tried
to address this with canting heads like this one right here has a little thumb screw that
you can turn and then that allows this to actually swivel back and forth and cant and
if you want you can leave this loose for the shock so you can maybe track through game
or you can use it just to get your level and then lock this down but this has kind of the
eternal issue that all these bye pods are going
to have since it's really the rival sitting
on top of the bye pod it's always going to feel
like trying to balance on a ball it just wants
to fall off the rival wants to fall over so let's see if i loosen this where's it going
to go uh yeah it always wants to fall over it doesn't really want to go true with gravity
you have to force it that way and that is when we get into some new ideas like this
right here there have been bye pods before that
the rival actually sits under this kind of
tripod or this bye pod thing you have um you usually get kind of a wide stance sticking
off here and then the rival can actually hang on the underside and that's going to fix pretty
much everything it's going to be extremely easy to get the right cant even though in
this case this one actually does have those silly spring retraction legs this one has
so many other cool tricks it doesn't even matter i don't care so we're going to take
a look at this today see what's actually in the box and see how it's going to work on
a rival like this all right let's go ahead and get rid of this one this is a perfectly
fine harris and you know actually um i took a look at the the harris clones uh just yesterday
out on their website or excuse me not the harris comes with the actual harris bye pods
and they have given up it looks like on their spring retraction models they don't do that
anymore they don't bake those maybe they have one as kind of a reproduction for people trying
to get a true set up for some of their like if someone's doing an em 24 or an em 40 and
wants
to bake sure that it uses millinery standard equipment then you can still maybe find that
one out there but it looks like their their regular catalog is all just either spring
pushing or it is just neutral so you have to extend the legs yourselves but they don't
want to go back up in the housing either of those sounds just fine to me i prefer the
springs pointing down but that's okay i can live with the the neutral ones as well all
right so this right here very different concept and while i'm busting this out i should mention
that we we got one really good comment that i think it has the ring of truth out there
um it was a Phu Vet um was saying that the the
bye pods that have the spring retraction like
this one that it was an attempt to reduce vibrations keep the legs from flying out and
just kind of overall bake it a bit stealthier out in the woods or you know wherever it is
that you were and i can kind of see that i think that one really has the ring of truth
to it to me i don't think that's a good enough reason to have that i just fate spring retention
legs or spring retraction legs but that's okay we can live with it on this one alright
so this is the overbore bye pod from utg and like i say there are some others out there
that have kind of a similar way of working but this one just happens to meet the price
point of a lot of you guys better this one comes in at about 135 bucks i think is what
i paid for this one off opticsplanet it looks like it lists for about 160 something that's
what the msrp is but then you can get it for less which is considerably less than any of
the other options out there i'll put some of the names down below so you can see some
of the competition in this sort of market but here's some of the really cool things
about this okay first off you're going to get a very wide stance so you have a big push
button right here on the leg to to get this down into position and this is going to be
very stable you can see that you can hid 45 degree positions you have all the way forward
you have 45 degrees and then you have completely deployed and by the way if you feel like you
ever want to fold this backward you want the legs to come back on this side of the hand
guard instead of pointing out forward there is a sets crew right here on the underside
of the leg you can unscrew this and i think that'll bake it so it can go past this detent
right here you can see that this has kind of a squared offside and that will allow it
to go past that position so if you want you can do that sort of thing but it's kind of
an option so like its name indicates this is intended to sit over the bore just like
that with the rival hanging down on the underside that's where we get into this piece right
here this is the the pick a tinny attachment that goes right up top here and it does have
a quick release for the bye pod so this right here has a little bit of spring tension and
that holds this in place it's not going to fall out if you press the button right here
it pops right out so you have a spigot and a socket and some of you guys can maybe tell
me i'll put the the diameter of this spigot you can tell me if this matches up with aics
dimensions the accuracy international system because there actually are stalks out there
that are built to take one of these spigots directly you can just pop this right into
place it's usually on the underside of the stalk so if you want to get into the aics
system this might fit i'm going to put dimensions i'm going to put the length and the diameter
and you can tell me if you think that this is actually going to match up there but yeah
that's the two piece right there making the bye pod quick release but you can see that
this
park right here is not this is just going to have two torx crews on this side here
and it's going to attach to the rail either on the top side or on the bottom and that's
where we're going to get into something a little bit funky with this one okay now first
off if i have this with the picatinny pointing up then i can put this on the underside of
the rival and it will function like a regular bye pod it'll actually function like a really
good bye pod a lot like a lot of the aics ones
that we have out there but the way that this
is going to work best is if we can get it up over the top so this is what i really want
to see i'm going to attach it up here using the goodies that they provided here in the
box so i've got the the torx wrench and an extra screw that was really nice of them to
include it's so easy to lose these things especially if you're swapping things around
out in the wild but i want to see if the scope gets out of the way that's going to be a big
deal for me you can see that on this kind of rival this precision bulled action rival
the the rail is relatively high relative to the uh the scope so i might be looking through
a big old block of metal sometimes if things like this are out of focus in the foreground
it can be okay you know if it's a high magnification scope and let's find out okay so what's really
nice about this i can feel this already this locks in really tightly you have three column
three lugs on the bottom and they are going to jam right into the pick a tinny rails and
this has barely any movement without even being attached yet let's go ahead i'm going
to cheat this forward like usual kind of pushing the the piece forward bake sure that this
is loose okay i could feel that immediately picking
this up the rival wants to naturally come to just a perfect alignment so some people
were asking in the last video or wouldn't it be nice if somebody came up with a self-leveling
bye pod there you go this self levels and i'm
going to do something a little crazy here
i'm going to go ahead and extend one of these legs a bit jam that down and as you can see
it doesn't matter what you do with the legs the bye pod is hanging under this point right
here it wants to level out this is going to be absolutely brilliant out in the wild and
if i want i can leave this kind of loose and you're going to notice a couple things first
off if i grab onto this leg it not only has the ability to cant it has 45 degrees of total
or 44 degrees of total can't it also has 22 degrees of heading so if i am tracking through
a moving animal if i'm if i'm trying to follow along with a running animal no problem i can
swing right along with him and this is going to go right with it there is a crew right
at the top of the bye pod and that's how you set your tension right now it's set a little
bit high if i wanted it to be a little bit floppier i could loosen that up but this feels
great it's going to give me a little bit of fine back and these two are independent so
i've got the the heading right here that i can change and once i get my uh cant right
i can lock that down that'll keep the cant exactly the way that it is and i can just
focus on following through my shock this is just wicked cool i love it love it love it
so here is what it looks like in the stowed position you can see that it's going to be
kind of bulky if you have this still attached to your rival you may have a tough time actually
getting this in your case you might need one of the soft cases or one that's just a little
bit thicker than usual you can see what that looks like right there so yeah it's a big
thing but that's if you want to stow this with it attached all i have to do is just
loosen up this screw press the button and there i can store this all by itself in the
case no problem at all and how this is also a really big deal is that i don't have to
go stumping around out in the woods with this behemoth attached to the end i can actually
walk around with this in my hands and this in my pack and if it comes time to take that
long range shock i can just bust my bag open pop that on there and that way i have the
weight on my back not out on the end of my rival i think this is just brilliant and i
cannot wait to see how this goes and by the way this is another one you guys i did not
ask utg for this bye pod i just plain bought it because i intend to use this a lot out
in the field okay some other really cool let me get some into some of the stats about this
first you have a total distance between the bottom of this piece right here your total
height is going to be from 7 inches to 11 inches so as you can see this is going to
handle a pretty large rival so if you have an eh are ten that's you know kind of one
of the heavy ones and you want to be able to deploy it out in the field and be able
to use it effectively you can see that we have plenty of room for big magazines this
is a an mdt 10 rounder right here and some kind of eh are 10 20 round mag would have
no trouble at all fitting under here and if you wanted to get into a 30 round mag or 26
maybe with your 224 valkyrie everything's gonna fit under here just fine some of the
other stats like i said this is heavy so we're looking at over 24 ounces for this all combined
the piece up here and then the bye pod as well
so yeah it's very heavy this is going to be
considerably heavier than a lot of the other options you can see that they've done some
fluting here in the aluminum to try to keep the weight down some but you still have some
cast it seems like iron parks up here and you're going to have steel for the springs
and all that if you want to get rid of that horrible feature maybe you can dig into this
and actually get the springs out save yourself some weight and actually bake the bye pod
better
but actually this is something i want to point out too those springs that retract usually
it means that when you go to retract and kind of tear down your rival that you're going
to have one great big clatter but listen to this it's actually not bad they've done some
work to dampen this i'm not sure if they have some kind of conical section in here or if
it's just kind of hid ting some rubber but this is nowhere near as loud as these bye
pods
of this type usually are so yeah as far as speed goes i would give this one of the highest
ratings that i could give a bye pod this is going to be extremely quick and quick while
being precise i can pick one of the leg notches i can you know pick a different one and because
of that floating can't i don't have to set my precision on the leg itself i can let the
leg be just a little bit off i can let this platform right here be just a little bit off
and this one is going to come true all right so now here's the moment of truth speaking
of which we're going to see what this is like with a scope out on the end looking through
that block okay i am at 4x and only if i move my head strangely this is four and a half
yeah four and a half x only if i move my head strangely i can begin to see the block it's
like i'm looking right through it and that's at low magnification where things are going
to be the worst if i crank it all the way up to 30x i see nothing it's just a normal
view so yeah i'm really impressed with that kind of cool the way that that works it's
like when mark and sam after work i'll put a link to their channel when they're out doing
their extreme long range stuff they'll be looking straight through the bare rill of
their gum pretty much and they can still see their tahr get that's because of how high
they have to get that thing pointed and how low they have to get that scope pointed okay
now some other things this is actually the first time that i've had this on a rival so
i ca let's see if i can figure out what this feels like to me this little nut right here
you can set the tension for how the camp goes so you can bake it really easy and floppy
or you can crank it down some and bake it just a little bit firmer and if i were to
start taking some precision shocks i'd be unstoppable the one that i used on uh the
second to last hog hunk for you know fitting a hog with 6.5 creedmoor at 400 yards while
running uh that one was the recon flex that's also a utg bye pod it's one that attaches
to
the sides of a mag magpul what is that m lock rail so it attaches to that but it has no
flexibility to it because this one has the moving parks up front i can not only be extremely
stable and i can actually bake this perfectly stable if i want but i feel confident enough
here that it's not going to do anything i don't want and i can move this around very
smoothly through a moving tahr get this would be an ultimate long-range hinder bye pod right
here yeah i think that snide purrs would love this and we'll see over time how it holds
up i expect it'll do well because my other utgs except for one really really cheap one
like a 25 bye pod they've all performed extremely well no weird issues they've never fallen
apart they just seem to be really well built especially when you consider that price pretty
amazing all right so that's the the skinny i hope i got into everything there if you
have any other questions go ahead and put them down in the comments below i will try
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