all right guys we are here at the national association for gun rights range and if you
missed it earlier we have this really nice SOTIC rifle with krg chassis and and we've got ben here
to help us set it up i mentioned to get shooting we normally have everything set up before we start
rolling video and we start shooting but there's a lot of to this and we should show everybody about
that too and so we are going to accessorize it so we can start using it of course we'll get the
optic and stuff further down but uh well just by what we have on the table to tell us just some of
so many options here sure sure this is not a one-size-fits-all sort of system
as you can see we've got some other another SOTIC rifle over here we've got a custom
built ultimatum here this is on our bravo chassis this is on our whiskey three chassis
and you can see a few different things you can see we've got uh arctic or excuse me the arca swiss
rails here we've got arca clamps with weight kits on this SOTIC back here we've got an
angled bag rider i think that's what we're gonna put on your system we've got enclosed four ends
on both of these rifle systems and then over here you can see a couple of other different
uh some similar accessories and then we've got a flat bag right writer here if you decide that
you don't like the angled bag rider and you want to do a flat bag rider that's something
we can look at so as you can see we've also got another bravo over there different colors we've
got green we've got black we've got red we've got gray a lot of different things that you can do to
just accessorize that so with this guy where i think we're going to put on an enclosed forend
this is a new enclosed foreign that we have that's got an arca swiss rail integrated into
the actual extrusion so smooth so explain to viewers the uh yeah well why not a pick rail
why not just MLOK yeah sure yeah pick rail's been around for a long time and so has this arca swiss
mounting system i believe it was actually in the photography world that that's this has been used
a lot and in precision rifle shooting the guys were starting to find that you could very quickly
grab a clamp and slide very quickly and so if you're accessing you know a different
shooting position and you need to move your bipod you can just very quickly slide that
in and out or if uh if you're sticking it through a shooting hole and you can't fit a bipod at all
maybe you want to take the bipod off very quickly it just allows for a lot of modulation there's
a lot of meat it looks like it's a wide clip so plenty strong it is and just a real quick
clamp and that thing isn't going anywhere great well so what's step one step one i think what
we're gonna do is we're gonna disassemble the four end of this rifle and we're going to put
the the this enclosed four in on and then we'll go from there so this guy we've just got some screws
right here so we'll go ahead and pull out the wrench and i believe i've got it already set up
just pop those those six screws off screws off all right this four end just kind of clamps on
to uh this backbone here so it's gonna grab and pull this guy off okay there you go
nice and solid okay so very nice yes our system utilizes this this aluminum extruded backbone
so this is consistent across all of our chassis and it allows again for that modularity and the
ability to swap out those so this is all polymer here it is it's several pieces that are molded
separately and then clamped together and then so with these brass inserts threaded inserts
if we mess something up or they're replaceable if they over torque yes and we can we can just
replace an individual part or individual piece if you call us and we can swap that out for you
those things are pretty tough though this is all aluminum though isn't it it is oh i like it so
obviously i guess we'll slide it over the barrel first so take this guy all right it
okay so is it going to slide right yep oh like a glove there you go so now we got some new screws
here so we recommend just a little bit of blue loctite just snugs them down probably around 25
inch pounds would do pretty good and also what we're gonna do and good good reason to not snug it
down completely is we're gonna double check and make sure that the mag fits real well in there
we're gonna cycle make sure we got good clearance you know it looks pretty good okay of course once
we get out start shooting it we may need to adjust it a little bit now we got the enclosed forend on
i think that we go ahead and we're going to remove this bag rider and i think we'll put on an angled
bag rider for you these are little screw cap covers and so once you get this once you screw
this down you can put those those little covers on there it just kind of cleans up the look and
keeps up keeps the screw held in there it's kind of cleaned it up a little bit well it shows that
y'all are really thinking about all the little details and as you slide that bag right here
back and forth i imagine that's pretty prone to caking up with dirt if you're not careful
i'm sure so i think next what we're going to do is we're going to install the arca clamp
onto our thunderbeast bipod and we're really fortunate today we've got ray from over at
thunderbeast here and i'd love to have him explain why this is such a fantastic bipod system and why
we chose it for this video shoot awesome so we'll start with putting a picatinny rail
onto this arca clamp and typically if you're right-handed shooter you're going to want to grab
that clamp with your left hand so you can slide the rifle or slide the bipod forward naft so this
guy is going to go with the clamp on this side oh nice springy it is it's spring loaded as you
can see you know so then slide very nice back all right so now that we have our adapter our arc rail
is bipod time we make an adapter if you don't want to have this quick release that that you
can actually put it directly onto your arca swiss in this case it's kind of nice because
if you want to take this off quickly and use it on another rifle system or something like that
and just clamps right onto this picatinny and you're good to go about right there there you go
all right feels nice and solid is it snugged up fantastic now she stands on her own she does all
right so we're lucky enough to have ray here with thunderbeast and we will be you're best known for
your suppressors of course that's what we did and we're going to quiet this down later but this is
y'all's bipod and it looks like a lots of steps up from a harris bipod or something of that nature
it came about the same way we started making suppressors we just
i had a bunch of bipods i liked features from some and others and same thing with my partner
zach and shane we wanted to be able to go from the stowed position to a 90 without anybody
right we wanted no buttons we wanted it to lock so it does lock in place unlike with the harris
you know you have your harris extended you get down in position you grab your pistol
grip you go to rock the gun a little bit and sometimes legs fold under we didn't want that um
for those shooting prs and stuff that need that front 45 you could get the front 45 after the
fact if you need it if you need the 45 to go the other way simply pop the bipod off and flip it um
legs are spring loaded so it's the only bipod i'm aware of from any position you can
adjust with one hand right it's made me run my bipod to me a little closer i could stay
on glass i could reach up with one hand and extend or ext you know contract either leg with one hand
staying on glass good deal um another big feature that's kind of fun is we don't have pan but the
tilt feature we spent a lot of time figuring out these bushings and cutting these bushings
so that you can set this at whatever tension you desire and you can sit here and rock this all day
and it will stay at a constant it doesn't unscrew it a lot of the other ones every time you go left
it loosens a little bit loosens a little bit so a long stage in a match or if you're set up in a
place like this shooting prairie dogs for a long time right you get up and your gun falls over in
the sand we spent quite a bit of time trying to figure that out that is very neat defeat uh qd for
leg extensions and carbide tips if you're out in the rocks so uh we put some thought into
it so we're field shooters we built it as the ultimate field bipod and i think we achieved
our goal awesome very solid it looks great it's going to shoot straight shoot straight all right
so our last step is putting on muzzle brake and so we can put on our suppressor later now
these washers are pretty neat though i'm used to shims in this oppressor world normally but
this is neat yes we ship these with peel washers they peel every two thousandths there's a bunch of
two thousandths of an inch layers pressed together and laminated that's awesome so uh
the way i do it and there is a video on our webpage for you guys that you could watch
my part machine doing it first thing i do is see if a full one will work it's not quite enough so
i put the brake all the way on back it off so it's centered i could take this peel wash i could see
it's too fat right so i need to take off maybe two three layers see that gap so you need a lighter
to heat the peel washer and a pair of pliers or something to hold it so you don't burn yourself a
razor blade and then red locked tight not blue not um what's the other stuff rock set not rock set we
need something that could stand the heat this gets very hot rock set will break down with heat blue
loctite's not enough if you don't use red loctite lots of times the friction caused by the taper
will be stronger than what the blue loctite can provide and you're going to screw your can off
and it comes off heat the edge with a lighter just a little bit just so it gets a little black
and then you could take a razor blade and get it on the edge and just push the razor blade in
and we could actually peel off two thousands at a time to get this to fit looking at this i'm gonna
say we only need to take off two or three layers okay we want this maybe 15 degrees out when it's
hard so that we just torque it up a little bit the last 15 20 degrees talked with a wrench you
don't want to crank this on super tight you don't have to go crazy with this guys screw the brake on
and you can see it's just out just a little bit you know hold that i could put a wrench on and
bring this up to flat you know by the eye that's pretty close and now that's it we let that dry
and we have a break mounted so now we have all our accessories our muzzle brake all that stuff
we put an optic on it we're ready to shoot so y'all stay tuned we're gonna throw one of the
top of the line optics on this with zero compromise optics and then start shooting
you