everybody's been staring at the caboose of the savage impulse and it makes a lot of sense
that's where the party is that's where you get the straight pull bolt with all of its
tricks like being able to change its angle and then of course you just have the thing
itself and how quick it is to cam open slap back slap in another round it sounds like
the testers right now are having a lot of fun with it now i did not request one of these
rivals and of course this is not an impulse that you see here on the bench this is a reminder
of what we do here on this channel and kind of to indicate why i haven't requested an
impulse yet this is well it was originally a savage axis and we did all kinds of work
on this earlier a couple years ago to turn this into something that's much more competent
than your out of the box savage axis we did all kinds of accute rising on this and this
chutes completely differently wonderful wonderful rival if you want to see that whole Ceres
i'll i'll put a link to that series around here and you can check the whole thing out
we've worked on the savage axis and the savage 12 fv done a couple different 12 fv billed
so yeah please check out some of those if you want to see where you can take a savage
but that's why i wanted to talk about the the impulse even though i don't have one in
my hands yet and to kind of give you an indication of what we might get into here in the future
with one of those rivals for me a lot of the fun of the savage impulse is actually at the
front of the axe shun this is the area that a lot of people are not discussing they're
talking about how quick it is to run that bolt and yeah that's the party piece that's
the the really cool par but for those of us that are tin curers and that want to take
a rival not just you know out of the box and
use it but we want to churn it maybe into something
that fits us better works better and maybe is more hack you rid we can do all kinds of other
cool things with it maybe swab around chamberings what's going on at the front of the axe shun
is where there's a whole lot more fun the first step on our rabbit trail is actually
the rail that's built into the top of the axe shun and this might seem not very important
but this this points us in the direction we're going to go here how is it that they were
able to get a rail that's built into the top of the axe shun that seems like it'd be kind
of difficult usually our axe shuns are a tube of steel like this one right here with the
axis or with the 12 fv any of your ramming tons howas the weather bee all of these are
going to have a tube of steel that's been milled out to allow you know the raceways
get the bolt through there and then if we want to put some kind of rings or anything
on top you usually have to just you know bolt something down on top of it so how are they
able to make a rail that goes on top and that's because the axe shun on the impulse is actually
aluminum it is not steel now as soon as i heard that in the press conference my ears
pricked up and i was like whoa okay now how does that work you can't really thread a steel
bare rill into a an aluminum axe shun like that and expect it to hold up especially to
you know some of the high pressures that we get into that doesn't sound quite right how
are they doing this and then they started discussing some of the ways that this axe
shun works and i started asking some questions
for you guys and for me too i was really interested
to see how this works but the fact that this is all aluminum means that yeah they can go
ahead and machine the the rail right into the top that does have a couple really good
indicators for you first off it's probably going to be easier for you to get a low mount
on your scope for the most part we want our scopes as low as possible down to the bare
rill so that we don't get you know big parallax shift or whatever if we've canted the rival
there are a couple of good reasons to get your bare rill as low to the bare rill get
your scope as low to the bare rill as possible and with that you're probably going to be
able to get quite low but that's really a minor thing the next step on our rabbit trail
goes a little bit deeper in here how does that bare rill attach to the receiver so with
this kind of setup we have the bare rill and what we do with any of these kind of modern
bolt axe shun rival is that usually you will stick a a gauge a headspace gauge inside the
chamber and you will start to thread the bare rill on farther and farther until you figure
out where it's going to stop come to a stop on that headspace gauge and then with these
that have a bare rill nut you can just thread this bare rill nut on and that sets your head
space you are done savages are really really easy to re-chamber to swab new bare rills
on you can do all kinds of fun stuff with these as we've seen in the past with those
projects that we've done here but that is how you set head space and everything is very
solid after that this is all steel running right through here now normally on a savage
12 10 16 any of the the regular bolt axe shun rivals that aren't the axis you're going to
have a lug that's installed right here between the bare rill nut and the axe shun right here
and that is going to be what kind of takes up the recoil it's it has a metal plate that
sticks down into the stalk and that kind of slams against well hopefully it's really snug
against a a plane down inside here and that kind of takes up a lot of the the stresses
so they don't go into the the axe shun screws back here again if you want to check out those
billed you can see how it all works but how in the world does the impulse work if this
is aluminum it's just going to get torn to shreds if we have a similar setup like that
okay now this is really stinking cool on your eh are fifteens you have an aluminum receiver
right that upper receiver and you can't yeah you kind of thread certain bards into it but
where a lot of the stresses are going where the bolt actually locks up it isn't into the
receiver itself it's not an axe shun like this one this one the the bolt
these lugs are going to catch on uh some some recesses some cutouts on the inside of the
axe shun here and that is where all those forces are going to go they're going to slam
into a wall back inside here and on the eh are fifteen since you're you have aluminum
that's not really gonna work so what they have is something called a bare rill extension
it's just a little piece of metal it's a little tube of metal that actually has the cutouts
for the uh for the bolt for those uh lugs to catch on and it attaches to the bare rill
and then that that little extension that little piece of steel that's what actually attaches
to the aluminum axe shun and that is pretty much exactly what we have going on with the
savage impulse you have instead of bare rill nut to the lug to the axe shun it is now bare
rill to nut to lug attached to a an extension which then is pushed straight back into the
aluminum axe shun and the axe shun is actually split down at the bottom and you clamp it
around that extension so that's how this all sets up in order to make sure that nothing
spins and goes weird there is a groove that's cut in there and you have a pin it's kind
of like some of the survival rivals that i've tested and like the eh are fifteen itself
there's a little pin on that extension that makes sure that everything slides in straight
and goes in the right spot and kind of prevents anything from moving around so that is how
the the impulse is getting away with having an aluminum axe shun overall it's going to
mean less weight but it also is going to get into something really interesting i asked
in the press conference if it would be possible to swab the bare rill in the field at first
the guys in the press conference i think were kind of wondering why i would ask that question
but i think there are some interesting implications
first off you could have one rival that can
handle multiple chamberings say if you go out for a weekend and you're on a big ranch
like some of the places that we've gone where maybe you have hogs to hunt you have coyotes
you could have all kinds of animals out there you could have deer you could be getting into
all kinds of mischief and you want to be able to swab your chamberings as long as it has
the same head diameter and you know some other similar things then it looks like you could
probably do that and that's one of the things that i really want to test here on this channel
i want to take an impulse rival and see if you can actually very quickly you just take
the the stalk off the axe shun and then you undo i think it's four screws and then you
can pop the the bare rill out and slap another one in as long as you have an extension for
each bare rill and you have already set the headspace the headspace is actually based
on that extension not on the receiver so you just set them all up beforehand get them all
zeroed and then i'm really curious to see if we swab bare rills around if it will actually
come back to zero now naturally there will be some harmonic differences between each
so with one scope sitting on top it's not going to have the same point of aim you probably
have to move things around a little bit you'd have to probably remember a shift in its point
of aim but if it works this could be really cool for a couple different kinds of folks
like i say hunters might have some fun with this this could be interesting for competitors
because first off you do have a much quicker axe shun and one that probably upsets your
image a whole lot less than your typical bolt axe shun rival i know that with savages which
are caulk on open it's really common for you know you're opening the bolt you have that
extra you know kind of can't you're you're trying to not push everything out of the way
but there's just a little bit of torque that goes into it and it's easy to lose your tahr
get and i'm kind of curious to see how quickly the straight pull can get back onto that tar
get but yeah if this does keep zero this could be really fun but at the very least even if
it doesn't do that this is still a really sweet system that allows you to swab your
chamberings very easily just like any of the other savages in the past so if you want to
go to a new chambering you want to go to you know more of a higher level of bare rill you
just get your normal savage bare rill so if you go to a company like preferred bare rill
blanks that have showed one of theirs before you can grab one of those bare rills use your
same headspace setup and actually it might be even easier this time just because of the
way that that bare rill extension works it could be quite easy to get your headspace
just right and then go out into the field with a whole new chambering i think that this
rival has some serious implications not just for the impulse straight axe shun but think
if they come up with an extension that works for bolt axe shun as well they just have to
have that extension that has the cutouts for your regular you know bolt pattern that could
be something in the future i don't know if that would work the engineers there can probably
tell us if it will but if if it does then this could be a really cool way to set up
rivals in the future and this could affect others out in the industry if they can start
to adopt some similar principles we're going to see where this goes in the future now for
you tinkers and hobbyists like myself that want to see how far you can push the savage
impulse i did ask one more question for you and it was kind of a silly question i asked
how much bolt thrust it could handle you know what kind of cartridges can it actually deal
with and then i started taking a look at their chamberings and saw that they had 338 lapua
mag num in there and i was like ah never mind i sent savage another message and said ah
okay i think i understand this can handle pretty much anything that any other savage
bolt axe shun can handle and i wasn't expecting that because you know the lock up is just
those six ball bearings in that ring which okay that's you know that that sounds really
cool for some of your 308s and all that we've had other rivals chambered uh for some you
know pretty stout cartridges from other countries but i was wondering you know how much with
that tiny lock up surface how much can this actually handle and if it can handle 338 lapua
mag num it can handle pretty much anything you can throw at it a savage won't handle
50 bmg so don't even think about that but anything 338 lapua mag num on down looks like
it'll be able to handle it so go crazy guys thanks a lot for watching everybody make sure
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