All right today to talk about these two I have a maple bipod here, the new one that just came out 2018 and then a bolt gun. This is the savage if you haven’t watched a review for this. Yet this is Savage. 12 EFI go check, though this is a $219 miracle, rifle extremely impressive and watch that review. If you want to hear more about it, but I’m running that bipod on here, it’s not exactly set up for it in the way that I have a bipod adapter on a swill stud here and so I had to put an adapter onto or that kind of a quick-release adapter onto the maple bipod, because it has flathead only portions two of them not a quick detach like your Atlas and some of those other things right off the bat Inglis, a that’s a huge fail, I, don’t know what in the world maple is thinking in releasing something like this.

That is proprietary that you can’t have a quick detach on it. Furthermore, it barely snugs up on to the lug that’s available here, thankfully, I was able to make that work, but otherwise I would have been drumming a little bit of steel away to make that work so really frustrating that the initial piece couldn’t just attach on there I had to use an adapter, but I do like to take it off sometimes and put on another rifle.

So that’s cool, just a black model there and coyote tan version with the AR I’ve been shooting just a little bit so far, I’ve only got ten rounds down the pike today through this rifle actually just to confirm it. Zero. Interestingly enough, I’ll tell you I should review this rifle now. This is a Paul metal, Tony, inch, upper kind of a standard, maybe government profile or whatever, and between ammos there’s.

So many good quality ammos out there that other ARS have liked and I’ll just say for what it’s worth. This rifle consistently shoots: the 855, the penetrator at green tips. You know it shoots that the best it just amazes me because it’s not like a real high quality round, but it shoots relatively tight. So what I’m gonna do is somebody left up some targets, downrange which I love even have to use my targets or my staples, so there’s two targets I can shoot on.

This is about a 3/4 or a little under rifle with that eight five, five! Sometimes it’s under it’s hard for me to tell so I just saved 3/4 or under it’s somewhere in there and that’s what the utg bipod that’s. Typically, what I had ran run in the past check out my reviews on that UTG, 360 bipod and we’re just gonna see if this keeps up with it or does better I’ll, be honest about my my shot placement and, if I think, I pulled them or anything like that, but we’ll just run through I.

Don’t have a huge one! – amal with me today. Just give you a little look at what this bipod is like when it’s functioning so I’ll go 5 round group at 100 yards I’ll, see what that looks like on this guy and then I know my my savage is a 3/8 group shoot and rifle for sure, with the right. Animal and I’ll do a five shot group with that on the other target. That’s left open, we’ll just see if these bipods are keeping up with the utg at the very least or if they seem easier or better I’ll, give a little feedback on that and then we’re gonna move over to 200 and 250 yards, which is the most I have at my range right here.

I know it probably gets boring, seeing people shoot at point-blank distances, but that’s just when I got to work with right now over here in Scottie. So this this bipod there’s a lot of stuff I, can talk about a lot of things I can share about, but first, let’s just shoot it we’ll talk about this all right. So a little bit about the rifle. You know it’s just regular old, AR I guess it’s got! Cmc flat trigger in it it’s a three and a half pound trigger we’re, shooting, penetrator 62-grain min delay, us a bag, free, cheap, two cylinder, Bank and I, actually kind of like it with a are the best I’m, not shooting off the most optimum surface.

It’s like kind of a slippery carpet, but it’s got to make do with what you got or the range is clear here: use an SWF, a 10 X, actually so nothing premium, but it certainly gets the job done. Alright. Finding my target here, bullseye, maybe kind of a poor recoil, actually kick rubber fish up, four shots or five shots. Let’s go back and watch the footage, excuses, I’m sure it’s about 30 degrees out, so it’s actually warmer than it has been many other times.

What truth is your fingers just get cold after a while touching a lot of metal and brass, and it probably plays you know a scientific factor into your group size at some degree, but no excuses all day just got to get out and shoot and try it I’m using 50 grain Fiocchi with the Palmer tips. Typically, these do shoot real. Well again so watch my other reviews on the rifle, and this anvil combination hold that shot a little bit felt that well jerky on the trigger on that one again, there’s no warm-up here.

All right rain is clear: I’m, not real happy with the group I just shot, but let’s go take a look at it. We’ll talk about it. She really just not room for excuses in this. That was no warmup, you know, is what it is: shooting the right animal. It should have been. A three eighths group I have a feeling, that’s a little bigger than three dates, but is what it is. You know it’s not enough.

I guess that’s what I’ll have to do. Let’s go take a look at it and we’ll just talk about it a little bit then we’ll move over to at least 200 250. All right. So I’ll try to be brief, but it turns out that I shot six shots with AR, so I’m an idiot I was just so focused on that reticle I wasn’t even paying attention to some other things which actually caused me a little bit of problems, but here’s what I got that’s a 3/4 inch group with the six shots, so yeah all right, I, don’t exactly know which one’s got extras here, but I definitely shot six shots and there’s no hits around the target.

So in here there are six shots. My guess is by looking at oh yeah, okay, looking at the back of the target, I can tell that. Actually. This surprises me that a fair amount went through this hole, so we had four hits in this little spot right there, which really impresses me. Oh that’s pretty tight, but yeah there’s one two, three four, so four impacts up here and then two down here, which is I, would say this is much tighter than I am usually shooting with that rifle I do not claim that it usually shoots that tight, so mate.

Maybe I should say that that’s impressive, because it’s you know I had shot ten rounds for the whole day before that and was with the AR just get warmed up on that trigger it’s a three and a half pound trigger single stage and I’m used to shooting you know kind of two-stage triggers for accuracy anyways, and so this was very good for six shots. For me, three three-quarter inch group- and you know I- could even almost maybe see this being a flyer.

Maybe I, don’t know the the core of the group is up here. That’s really cool so for the AR with that bipod I would say, I did better than you like I said it’s it’s 3/4 or under with that ammo 3/4 inch at 100 yards or under, and so you know at the very least it kept up with what I expected. It is a 3/4 inch group and it just happens to be a nice cluster right in there. It could be a chance.

It could be that the bipod helped me do better. I noticed with shooting the gas gun, because the recoil is is more obviously, then you’re gonna get with like a bolt gun in 223, which is it’s. It’s laughable, recoil I, get it, but there’s something there in the gas gun to deal with in compensate for, and it does finally know what hops around and I wasn’t shooting loaded in grass or rocks, or anything like that.

I was on this slippery slippery carpet that I had out there. That was probably not a good choice on my part, so my apologies, you know fingers get cold, there’s another excuse, but it is what it is and I may have rushed it just a little bit overall, but I could feel a good amount of tension when I loaded, the bipod I’ve seen some critique already of people that they didn’t like the way that that bipod loaded but I far prefer the way that bipod loads compared to the other cheaper, buy pods that are out there under a hundred bucks.

You know I really do like that, a feature pretty well as far as attachment. Again, it’s like proprietary, you know, there’s the two flat heads on there, so I don’t have a quick-detach on it. So it’s just gonna stay on there. I had lengthen the legs, so I could run a 30 rounder in there, and certainly I can go plenty at all. You could run a 40 rounder Meg in there. If you wanted to you’ll just be sitting up really awkward I prefer to run 20 rounders in that thing, but the 30 rounder was just fine and obviously the group was not unacceptable.

You know most guys shooting PSA rifles at 100 yards they’re, probably gonna, look for one inch or maybe three-quarter inch, but for a 20 inch rifle perfectly happy. It’s not even a thick barrel. It’s a one on one in seven twist kind of standard AR barrel. You know that thing was super. Cheap I probably got that for 229 bucks or something so I’m, pretty happy. I’d say that’s not bad for a rifle that especially doesn’t have a bolt.

That’s time. You know perfectly and all that I don’t know. Maybe the stars align, but maybe it’s just a decent right. I should review that rifle soon. That’s what I got moving on with the savage I’m actually not happy with this. This is a half inch group, center-to-center 1/2 inch group I, should mention, and just not happy with that. There’s one shot over here. If you can see that I would guess, because I shot this rifle so much I, just especially the last six months.

I’ve shut this rifle a lot and I can tell that it is 100%, zero, perfect ly and so I’m a little bit high, and this one to the right I would guess that this was the shot that I said it didn’t feel like a great shot. Bad recoil I think that guy went over here, the rest of it. If you were to actually just take that shot out and move it over, it would be back to a 3/8 inch group, which is what I claimed the rifle shoots.

So not super happy with that. But as far as the bipod goes now on a bolt gun, it does set up a little higher than I like, but sometimes you’re in a there’s, an advantage to that. Switching your shooting over weeds or unlevel ground, which I do a lot of shooting on unleveled round and I just end up having to get that guy a little higher, anyways I’m, not always shooting off a mat.

You know, and so it’s it’s pretty decent. The recoil impulse again I can load that rifle very consistently. It’s not awkward like that utg was that was so inconsistent. It’s amazing that I ever pulled out a decent groups under that with that bipod. So for this I’m gonna I’m gonna, say certainly a pass and keeping with the status quo and for comfort and usability. It’s definitely better.

It’s light, yours better! Is it worth a hundred bucks at it? I’m not gonna, say just yet. Let’s go oh shoot at 200 and 250, and maybe I’ll just wrap up the review and give you my intranet thoughts. You know just one month in I know: that’s not a lot. I’ve probably got 500 rounds on these bipods so far. Cumulative least that’s not a lot, but it’s pretty easy to deduce. Information after you’ve been shooting on biopods for a while of what you kind of like what you kind of don’t.

It won’t be a long term review, but it will give you an idea of whether you even want to poke your head. You know in this direction or not so, let’s go over there we’ll shoot a couple groupset 200. It looks like we got about a 10 mile an hour and right now that’s crosswind! So that’s not great, and it’s not even consistent. It’s like back and forth real blustery, so I, don’t know how much audio you’ll get out of this, but you can at least see the groups and we’re done super-state.

I’ve been shooting for several hours. I can’t feel my fingers anymore. They’re super dumb Suns going down so I’m gonna shoot a little more wrap it up and we’ll talk about these five pods I’ll try to throw five out at a couple hundred yards here, real quick on an eight incher again I can’t feel my fingers, so I can’t even feel that bolts when I’m grabbing it. Let’s talk about it all right.

So, first of all, a while ago, I talked about doing a 10 to 1/2 inch review for Palmetto state armory, pistol and you’ll notice that I have a different upper on here. I had a buddy who also wanted the pistol. I decided I wanted something M block I, really like that, a to front sight, just the durability of it, but I realized I’m, not using it. It’s a really tough gas block, but I wasn’t using I was using.

You know a vortex 1x, so I ended up selling the vortex 1x again, that’s the second one I sold and the upper and I replaced it with this and actually accuracy wise. So far, precision capability, I would say it’s. It’s probably a good trade-off. For me, this seems to shoot a little tighter, maybe a lot tighter I’m getting about three quarter inch groups at 100 yards, four, five shot groups, and so I’m super happy with that.

That’s just with 62-grain, ammo I believe penetrators again. So this is what I’m actually going to review and you’ll notice. I have the bipod on there right now and a primary arms 5x, and so this kind of replaced my 16 inch AR that I had sold off while back I still got a 20 inch, and this is a pretty good. Little pistol seems to do kind of everything I want it to and with a 5 X, and if you use Oh, what’s it called my ballistic program, strelok Pro fuse that you can definitely adjust the reticle and know where you need to hold out shooting it at 200 250 yards today and as long as I can see, my target definitely can hit it pretty precise I, really like whatever the name of that program is strelok Pro star, like bro I, think it’s strelok Pro having a moment, – I can’t remember great program works with the a CSS reticle.

It’s like 12 bucks. If you want to buy the app on your phone and it gets to some good data as long as you have something to provide, but this pistol I shot this out at 250 yards and I was getting about four inch groups, typically, not amazing, but I was running. This it’s it’s definitely better than some ARS do in fact, I shot with plenty of guys and this little thing at 250 yards shooting a four-inch group is actually doing.

Ok, it’s not it’s not a two-and-a-half-inch group. It’s not my size, but a four and a half or four inch group is, is pretty good. So let me just talk through a couple targets for you, so with a 20-inch AR today shooting at 250 yards. This is not a I, don’t know it’s not not too impressive of a target, but actually the thing that I was safe. Is that even with this compared to the utg that I would throw on that in the past.

This is at least keeping up with it with a gas gun. I did slip a couple times during those shots and I. Almost wonder if it’s these two tighter shots over here, because I slipped very consistently in the trigger pull so there’s two over here, they’re close and about a two inch group would make sense at 250 yards with that AR. So that’s my guess, anyways, but at the very least it’s acceptable performance with the bipod on the AR, so good job make pull.

You made an bipod that works well with an AR, you know, and then, with the bolt gun. This is a I believe it’s a one and a half inch group and I have a flyer down here which brings it down. This is what two and a half inches looks like. So that’s a 1 MOA group. If you count my flyer down there, which is clearly a flyer, if you throw it up there, you know definitely shooting a little under half them away.

So pretty happy with that again. I’ve shot that tight in the past, though, with my other bipods, so I wouldn’t say it’s better necessarily 200-yard group. So this is what the 20-inch AR and not stellar I would say it’s okay, it’s definitely, okay, that right there I did measure it earlier as to two inches in a quarter group. So it’s a little over my actually so my bad I guess, but it kept up an okay group for most people’s a ours again.

They’ll be happy with that. I just know that that AR can do better, but it certainly hit the target, and actually it was this way when I shooting it I had a couple low ones down there too, just a pair, that’s 200 yards and then here’s my 200 yard target from the savage and this target is. It was 5/16 inch that these are all five shot groups by the way so 5/16 inches at 200 yards.

That’s five shots! You know, that’s that’s pretty good you’re shooting right around quarter, M away because half inch at 200 yards is a quarter inch or a quarter. Moa grouping I can talk so I’m pretty happy with you know what I’m seeing there like I said: three eighths is typically what I’m shooting. So this has fallen right in line with that very happy with the performance there with a bipod and actually I would say overall, with an AR.

The thing that I noticed is so these just kind of flip down. Just pressure you don’t have to hit any button or anything. The thing I noticed with the AR is when I extend the legs out a little bit. If I want to run a 30-round err like that, I can definitely feel more flex in it and that just the the recoil of a gas gun gave me a little bit more trouble. So it is what it is.

It wasn’t. I wasn’t quite as easy and one of the things I didn’t love was actually do this for you, so you can see on the underside here, there’s a tensioning piece which helps with panning the panning of the bipod cuz. This can pan and tilt, and so you know, certainly you could set it up. Maybe you can see better like this it’ll it’ll tilt. You know really really well, it’s awesome I really like the tilt on it, but the panning is just like a little bit loose and it almost seems like it loosens up a little bit, I shot for a long time that I shop for five hours so then I end up, tightening it just a little bit again, not the end of the world, but we’re dealing with the bipod.

That’s you know above a hundred dollars generally. So what do you expect out of it? I guess I expect it to stay tight. That’s what I expect for a hundred our plastic and metal bipod, especially coming from Magpul, because maple does put out good products, and so with the AR. You know it’s it’s pretty good. It’s pretty good I’m, not upset about my purchase at all. I, don’t want to sell it or get rid of it.

It definitely replaces the utg bipod, for me certainly is faster. Certainly is you know kind of user friendly, the bipod itself isn’t, as tough I, don’t think is that utg that one was was all aluminum and this one just having a lot of polymer in it. It’s real lightweight, but it’s not as tough I, don’t think so. There’s a couple things I notice, with a bolt gun. Now what I noticed with the bolt gun is the height is just a little bit tall, but I really really really like the way that it feels when I load, the bipod I was pretty efficient.

Today, all my targets today, we’re so MOA easily, but most of them were like rade around between half inch and three-quarter inch at 250 yards like I, think I showed one earlier or I’ve one flyer, sometimes two Flyers, but I can tell that they’re grouping really tight and I want to say that I’m actually shooting a little better with the maple bipod because of consistency, and so that’s kind of the big thing with bipods.

If it’s not consistent, you’re gonna be bothered with it. It’s gonna be annoying. The Magpul bipod seems to me a lot of capabilities to be consistent. It’s not if snazzy is an atlas. It doesn’t have all the features that some of the more expensive bipods have and I’m kind of cool of that, because I don’t want to pay $300 for a bipod right now, it’s just not in the cards for me.

So as far as a great middle-of-the-road bipod that doesn’t break the bank but gets a lot of things done. This is definitely something that’s good to go. We’ll see you about a long-term review if anything breaks or falls apart. You know that can happen with hardware we’ll see about that, but so far with these two bipods, you know we’re looking at about 700 round count. Now that I’ve had on the two of them I’m digging it I’m sold maypole.

If you’re watching this, you need to come up with some sort of quick detach version, that’s ridiculous that it doesn’t have a quick detach in the first place. That is a fail. Flexibility is good. No worries about that rigidity is fine. The thief on wood surfaces and cement services I tried it on a few different I tried it on ice, I tried it on grass. I tried it on sand, wood and cement.

All today and I’d say it’s a little slippery these pyramids on the bottom, they’re, okay, but they’re, just not great, especially on a harder surface, but typically I try not to shoot off those harder surfaces. Anyways most people wouldn’t try. It just be nice. If it did grip a little better, it did slip. It popped out a little bit. You might see that in some of the footage with the gas gun, especially, but if I got loaded into the sand or the grass it did really good.

It was awesome. I was very locked in any anything. That’s unimpressive in the shooting today is gonna have to write on me because actually bipods pretty awesome. So that’s my two senses, gun-totin Minnesotan they go ahead and like share subscribe. Do all that kind of stuff and I hope to have a review up pretty soon. Comparing this versus my buddies he’s got almost the same thing, just a couple: key differences in the engine room.

So we’ll talk about that. Thanks guys, you.