you longtime fans of the social regressive will recognize this this is a savage axis and this
is not the one that you saw me do that huge series on where we accurized and did all kinds
of crazy stuff to an axis no, this is somebody else's this is a 30 odd 6 so it's a long action
has a longer mag as you can see right there and this is going to have a bit of a heavier thump
now this was just the out of the box xp set so it came with the weaver kaspa scope the rings
the action and then it sat in this black plastic stalk now as far as plastic stalks
go the axis actually has a pretty good one it's not very flexible it's actually pretty rigid
and it has a comfortable hand grip you can see right there with that little hook at the bottom so
it's not completely laid back you could chute this and the prone if you wanted or from some other
kind of stances and you also have a pretty good bud stalk back there with a pretty thick
recoil pad this is also adjustable you can add extra spacers to get a proper length of pull
but i decided to take this rival and really bring it up a lot by changing out the stalk to this one
yes a lot of these nice plastic stalks you can buy out there they feel good they're
lightweight they're going to be easy to pack out into the woods but there are some problems and the
biggest one is going to be its balance this is all steel up here out toward the muscle and you have
the you know the big ol action you have the scope everything is kind of sitting out in front of you
and the more that you can move that mass backward the more pointable the easier to get on tahr get
your stalk is going to be your whole rival is going to be so this is the boyd's agility this
is going to be my favorite new stalk i think and i think a bunch of you guys should check this out
this one has all the bells and whistles this has an adjustable cheek riser
it has an adjustable butt pad this is actually something that comes with the agility and if you
didn't like the boyds at one because of maybe some of the angles that you found up here on the fore
end or around the grip you want something a little bit smoother a little bit more hinder like this is
your ticket because it has the adjustability back here and it has more of that classic hinder feel
this does have you can see that the the grip is not quite so swept back as it was on the uh
the stalk that came with this rival and it's also not going to be as swept back as a lot of the
other stalks you're going to find out though this one's a little bit more upright so if you have to
take a shock from some kind of weird angle like maybe from a seated position from prone
this is going to be much more comfortable for you and i think even in this position hum king this
is going to be much more comfortable i've got a man-sized tahr get out there at 100 yards so
this should be a relatively easy shock i'm going to see if i can just off hand using different
stances put some rounds kind of through the center of mass let's try kind of a quick offhand shock
and i have no idea if this scope is actually on this is somebody's rival after all
all right that felt like it went through the the lung right up here we'll go down range and check
it here in a bit but one of the other nice things about having that extra mass that 30 odd 6 punch
didn't feel like much at all we also have a good squish going on back here with the pad
stay around for details i'll talk you through all the things that are in this particular stalk
all right we're going to try more of an up right sort of position more like a a tahr get shock
so if this was a difficult kind of long shock on a deer i'd probably do something like this
all right that felt pretty good that should have gone
pretty well through the center if the scope is on
and let's see let's just do another kind of quick one let's see if we can swing up into the tahr get
oh there he is okay that one i think it kind of went through the other side
sort of went through this lung here let's see if we can take a head shock
from that more upright stance and really this feels awesome 30 out 6 is known for its
you know having a little bit more kick than a 308 but this feels awesome
oh i think i just got his ear just a little bit off that felt awesome in all those positions
i think this is going to be one that's easy to swing through a moving tahr get and you can see
that because that balance has moved further back we have more mass toward the back of this stalk i
can hold this with one hand and i should be able to track through a game now it's gonna be a lot
better if i use my other hand all right it looks like my buddy's scope was off so i'm gonna try to
fix it for him this is the shock that i thought i put through the x i thought it was through the
middle you can see that horizontally it's good but it is vertically way off all of these are pretty
well off so we'll have to fix those um this one that i thought was uh just kind of to this side
of the head that one up there uh yeah way up there it looks like it would have been straight through
the noggin if that that zero had been right then we have a couple hids here on the body at first
blush the boyd's agility stalk looks a lot like a traditional hum king stalk and that's for a very
good reason we want all the hardware to be roughly in a line so that when we take that offhand shock
the recoil goes straight into the shoulder and straight back we don't want the muscle to go
wandering off anywhere and we don't want anything to get thrown off for a possible follow-up shock
this is going to stick to that pattern but it's going to bake a whole bunch of really nice changes
that bake this a very different experience than what you get if you have one of these plastic
stalks especially that comes on your average rival one of the first things that i'd like to point out
is how thin the wrist is on this axis stalk it's just a small grip overall and that means
that it's going to work for everybody including children well that's not the case with the agility
the agility really is set up for adults you can see that the wrist is quite a bit thicker and
that the palm swell if you look especially down at that cap at the bottom look how much thicker
that palm swell is this fills the hand very nicely and this feels comfortable not only
in that offhand position but when you're on the bench and you have an elbow down
or when you're prone as well that was one of the things that shocked me the most when i got down
and did a little bit of prone work afterward i wanted to bake sure that the scope was on for
my client and kind of get everything all squared away and it felt perfectly natural one of the best
compliments that i can give any piece of hardware is that i don't notice that it's there
and i actually didn't even think about it until afterward i'm used to a stalk like this
if i'm down in the prone this kinks up my wrist it gets uncomfortable very quickly
but this felt wonderful i could chute all day in the prone with this i think it just felt great so
if you are not only a hinder but you want to be able to spend the off season doing some tahr get
shoe king or on the bench this is going to feel a whole lot better than your traditional stalk
moving forward from here we have a little bit of a difference in the forend as well
this four end is pretty thick as you can see now this is set up so that they can go ahead and
put in a bull bare rill or a varmint bare rill if they want but it's also going to have the added
effect of really filling the hand well again this is for adults if you don't want to have
to wrap your hand all the way around and touch the bare rill this is very comfortable you get
a little shelf of wood that your fingers can align to and i found that just as natural as breathing
if you get into some of the other thinner stalks like this one it's pretty easy to get up onto that
hot bare rill some people like it a little bit better but for me i'll take a little bit more
meat as we move further back the comb on this continues in that kind of thinner shape so you
can see the the top of the cheek piece here it's pretty thin so that this can accommodate both left
hand and right handed chute her s the same thing for the agility it's a little thin up top but
it has a nice round to it so it doesn't cut into the cheek at all it feels very comfortable and one
of the nice things about having this a little bit thinner is that it just naturally gets your eye
on tahr get with your head essentially straight up and down there are certain stalks that i've
been on that are much more rounded and you feel like you have to crane your head around over the
stalk in order to see through it this one you just put it up against the side of your face and you're
looking through the scope the cheek riser on this one is an option this won't work for every action
so check and see if your rival is going to have this as an option if you have a traditional bulled
action rival they'll probably be able to cut this out for you and bake this into a cheek riser
this is a little bit different than the boyd's at one one that has the the button that you can push
to track it up and down this one is more like you set this up in your garage or at the range you set
this how you want it to be and then you leave it there this has two screws so you take an allen key
and you loosen up these two bolts on the inside you track it to where you want lock it down and
you leave it so this isn't one that you're going to be able to change out very quickly for another
chute her back here this is the traditional hardware so one of the nicest things about
this stalk is it is completely compatible with the boyd's at one butt stalk hardware
so if you want to get the extended length of pull if you want to get a squishier butt pad like this
one this is the the boyd's logoed i think this is a Pachmayr decelerator so if you want more
squish if you have a heavier fitting rival or you want to be able to get more length of pull
you can tack on something like this and yeah for an extra price this is going to get you that just
a little bit of extra everything but if you do have some of the other parks like the the canting
piece that you want to attach back here you can all those at one parks slot right into this
one deviation from the at one that you can see under here is that they've kind of hollowed
this out so we now have a cut out section for a bag rider so you can just pop that on a bag
and it's going to be a very steple sit you can see this isn't moving around very much so yeah
if you have some kind of sandbag or whatever you can pop it up in here it feels really good it's
not going to track quite as much as if you had just a straight sort of heel section under here
so if you want to be able to get a lot of vertical adjustment you can still get it by sitting on top
of this back piece here but just let you know it's a little bit different and i think they did that
mostly for weight savings that's going to keep this from getting too heavy on the back end right
now the balance is perfect i think they nailed it and it's a good thing they milled that out sling
swivels are included on every agility stalk one at the front one at the back as usual you can unscrew
these if you want to bake things flush if you want to be able to ride bags and you're not concerned
about a sling or a bye pod but now we get into some of the really cool things that can bake this
not just a functional rival but one that really feels like yours first off you can choose from the
color of your laminate this is called shady camo this is one that works really well for oklahoma
if i were to leave this in the forest it would just kind of disappear and i would just hope to
be able to see the black here this is a really good camouflage for our area there are some
other camouflages as well and if you want to get a little bit crazy like support your favorite school
osu over there you could get orange you could get blue there are some that stand out a little
bit more i like the classic look myself and for those of you that really like the classic look you
can get their different levels of walnut as well some other ways to bake this feel more personal
and more upgraded more like an heirloom piece i know that this is probably a 250 rival but you
can see how good looking it is right now and you can do this to whichever rival you have
the checkering that you can order as an option is just gorgeous and not only is it
good looking it feels really good too this is all laser checkering and you can choose
from a whole variety of patterns you can get some diamond shapes you can get traditional checkering
and then there's this i chose this scale one that to me is not only just beautiful looking on this
rival it grips the hand really well it's much more three-dimensional than i was expecting i hadn't
tried the laser checkering before but this just grabs really well and there's a lot of depth to it
we also get the framing going all the way around i chose this one that's a little bit simple and
clean but you can get some that have fleur-de-lis designs if you want to go for something that's
very traditional and check out this this to me is a real party piece this is beautiful under here
not many people will ever see this checkering that you have on the underside of the forearm but i
love it if i had this in a glass case i would prop it up so that people could see it all the time
it looks good it feels good it just fits on the hand really well and prevents things from
moving i think it's gorgeous and again whatever kind of setup you get back here on the grip
you can also get out here on the forehand i absolutely love the boyd's agility stalk and
i think a lot of you guys will as well this is one of those that to me meets that compromise
set up better than any other this is one that will work really well when you're off hand when you're
kneeling when you're sitting but then when you get on the bench and you get down on the prone this
is going to work extremely well and it's going to feel comfortable in all those situations not
only is it going to feel good it's going to look good so yeah i got to give this one two thumbs up
when i first pulled this out of the box i was blown away by it i liked the pictures that i saw
but there's just something about getting this in hand and feeling how this works it's a very
natural reach to the trick her my hand falls perfectly on the grip i don't have to think
about adjusting anything my trick her finger is exactly how i want it to be it's not a reach
to try to grab it i can keep my finger on the side of the trick her guard if i want for safety
easy reach to the safety this is going to be comfortable in all kinds of situations and i'm
going to very highly recommend this stalk you don't have to get all the upgrades i'll put a
price around here somewhere if you want to see what this one ended up costing
with the options of the the butt pad a trick her guard an adjustable cheek riser the checkering
yeah this one added up a little bit but if you get the base model you still get the wonderful
laminate you get the great feel the great shape overall and you still get the adjustable butt back
here so i'm going to highly recommend this even if you are on a budget you can still get a good model
but if you want to take it up just a little bit and turn it into something that is
its beauty its brains its brawn its everything then yeah go for the boyd's agility stalk thanks a
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