hey folks welcome to eastman's gear reviews i'm ike eastman and today we're going to go
through our newest gear review i've been using these swagger qd sticks for a couple of seasons
now and i want to walk you through how easy they're they are to use and how steady they are
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into the swagger qd qd is quick detach this allows you to remove this from your rifle and put it on
your rifle in the field on the go when you're in that red zone of a stalk now there's two different
types this is a 42 this is 72. these will go to 72 inches tall so if you wanted to stand or 42
inches which is comfortable kneeling or sitting on your butt these also will allow you to go a
little bit lower and shoot prone if you want to if you want to slide the sticks out a little bit
i'm going to take these apart i'm going to put them on my new savage you can see how to put them
on and how to attach them detach them as well as how to make them steady for that shooting position
all right so we're going to rip this open and actually put it on my rifle
it's really really simple it's a couple set screws
and it goes right on the front end of your rifle so let's get into it
so this comes with the adapter and obviously the sticks in this nice little clam shell this is
what it's going to look like on the shelf or if you get it in the mail it comes in this package
there's obviously the sticks there is this is the quick detach thing that goes on your rifle
and then in the back has the toolbox and all the screws and all that stuff
in here there's two sets of allens two screws there's a washer that's a spacer
that is very important don't forget that part so here we go if we get my rifle out check it
so it goes right on this part of the rifle right over the top now it's also so you go
what are you gonna do with the sling well it actually has a hole for a sling and i
found if you put the sling hole in the in the back it gives it leverage for the sling
to be pulling down instead of over the top so let's put our little washer on right here
over the top and what that does is it creates friction space and expansion for heat and
differentiation like that okay so one tip about that you can do when you put these
so i was struggling to get everything aligned up the bolt in there and all the the two holes on the
actual adapter and the two holes through this peg so what i did is i unscrewed the peg one round i'm
gonna put this thing on upside down which then just gives me a little bit more space to put it
to get everything aligned up and then once i get it all squared away i'm going to spin it
that one last turn so that the peg's tight so you can see now the bolt is going through really easy
foam washer should take up that extra space and those pegs are lock-tited and so they'll
you know they can they can take that so that gave me a little bit more space by
by spinning that peg out and then before i get it too tight i'm just going to spin this
tighten it everything's tight you can see really really tight now
comes the fun part they have the set screw what the set screw does it goes in through this top and
it pushes pressure against everything so it's it's dual pressure so there's pressure going
in and there's pressure pulling out so it's completely solid doesn't spin doesn't move
engineered obviously for shooting long distance you know i i prefer and i i've
done a lot i've taken a lot of animals sitting on my butt and a lot of guys like oh it's prone
you know better off well if you have the option yes absolutely 100% shoot prone however the problem
is not always do you have the option to shoot prone maybe you're out here like this where it's
flat as a fritter or maybe there's grass i've had situations where the grass is this tall how
are you going to shoot prone when the grass is this tall you can't it just doesn't work
so you're shooting if you get up sit on your butt sit on your knees something like that
you're able to shoot above all of that get the the barrel and the sight picture above all that
that's why shooting sticks longer shooting sticks is what i prefer
nice so it's attached now these quickly and you can put them on the cool thing is you
can put them on either direction so you can put them on forward slide them backwards like this
or you can put them on this way so no matter what hurry in hurry you are you can get them on
i have a tendency to get this the in before the red zone get these on get them set i also try and
get the remind myself which direction to spin these because you spin them you obviously let them out
so make sure you know your gear before you go on the field but that's it and then you can separate
them and the cool thing is like swagger says the sticks with moves so you can move its first shot
and animal moves you don't you aren't having to reset everything up you can move and adjust
for movement now you predator hunters these things are a game changer because you can
shoot and then shoot move and shoot another one absolute game changer so let's uh now that we've
put them put them on i'm going to show you how i am going to mock a stalk and i'll show
you how i get them set up and set for me i'm not going to use the taller ones these are for a few
if you really want to stand they go to 72 inches it's not something i use very often
but if you're if you are in a situation guys in africa if you want to take these this might
be a great option for you over there where you're having to stand and that grass is
you know waist high or above but i'm going to shoot with the shorter versions and i'll show you how i
set them up to where before i put them on then the red zone they're set for me kneeling or sitting
so get out get get them out of your pack put them on they lock in
ready to go there's these this nice little system here to keep them
square and then i set them and i know this because i've used these so much that
if i extend this top piece all the way that that's my perfect sitting position
obviously but one thing that i've learned over the years there's a tip it's hard to adjust them
if you're having to reach all the way to the bottom so i let the bottoms out
all the way that way when i'm adjusting height all i have to do is is adjust these tops
so this is obviously way too tall but with a quick adjustment i can lower it down to where i need it
close now like i said you don't want to do this you don't want to be doing this in the red zone
you want to get these set up i just took these out of the box so you want to get these set up
and close to your shooting position and then red zone you go in you have these sticks
click them on go into the red zone and you set up now if you have some height adjustment
you can pick them up push them together you can significantly change the height if you need to go
down you can widen them out you can significantly go on out the other thing is guys are like man
that just doesn't feel real solid right there turn but if you put your hand like this
and you pull in into it's like having a grip on a gun if you pull into your shoulder see that
it's completely solid completely like more solid than if i was shooting prone
because you're pulling in it's the triangle effect you have you have a weight down you're
pulling your weight back or the weight of the gun back and it's just locks everything in
so that's how i set them up um i have been known you'll you'll see me where
i'm going into the red zone and i'm going in like this set up very quick
set up and i'm ready to shoot in fact it was so quick on my elks
my elk hunt that the camera guy didn't even have hardly have time to get set up before i did
that's the swagger quick detach stalker qd42 they make them in a 72. check them
out let's just see how steady this new system is and see if we can pop a rock or something
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