Pretentious and attention seeking ain’t it. Could have just said he presented the information well and not arbitrarily patted yourself on the back. Weird.
@@thomasmarchese2808Not to mention, things like offset dots, LPVO's, and the SPR concept wasn't really around 30 years ago but he already knew most of it lol
Thank you Jim and Big Tex. Never heard these topics broken down so clearly and demonstrated. Can’t wait for Part 2. Video Timestops: 0:00 Jim’s Intro 0:56 SPR definition 1:44 Bipod 5:01 Sling 5:56 Barrel 6:46 Gas System 6:48 Suppressor 7:22 Optics and Magnification 9:12 Optic mount height 10:11 Reticle 10:35 SFP vs FFP 11:55 Parallax 14:21 PEW Pre-shot Checklist 15:30 Length of Pull and eye relief adjustment 17:46 Height of comb adjustment 18:23 Ocular focus adjustment 20:21 Zeroing 21:17 Offset red dots 23:12 Triggers 23:16 Buttstock and rear bag placement 26:12 Magazine selection 26:42 Other support equipment 28:00 Closing
I put an accupoint 3x9 with triangle reticle. Plan todo a mpbr zero on it, but possibly shouldn’t have bought that reticle. On the other side i think it will fit the gun well.
@@jimmybrodriguez That would be awesome. Everyone says a DM is a good thing to have in the squad but no one to my knowledge has listed the kit for one.
Been shooting for a long ass time and never seen that trick of shining light through the objective lens. Going to keep that in my bag of tricks. Nice work gents.
Old school technique. Also used for checking plumb (hang a plumb bob/weighted string on the wall and project the light through, the shadow from the reticle should align with the plumb bob).
This MAN speaking clearly has a compendium of knowledge on an SPR. You can hear it in his voice and he just keeps flowing. I would have been pausing him every 30 seconds jotting down whatever I could remember and he'd already be steps ahead.
What is the handguard/rail size of the rifle at 2:22? I'm looking to order either a 13 inch or 15 inch rail for my SPR and I want to make sure I get the right bipod clearance shown in the video for hand positioning.
@@jimmybrodriguez Every time I’m there (4-timer) they have made more improvements in order to achieve Alex & Rudy’s vision. Truly a world-class facility.
I've taken classes all over Texas, and Alex came down for a one-day class for TTPOA. Hands down one of the best classes and instructors I have come across.
The Ranch. Love that place. That tower is one of the best long range set ups I’ve shot from out to 1000yrds. He was talking fast but was easy to follow. Ton of good info
Strongly disagree with some of the details he covered. His approach while very knowledgeable and awesomely conveyed to students, displays his cognitive rigidity and confirmation bias. His "this way is the only way" mentality is limiting his professional growth and the more a person engages in that mentality the harder it may become for them to be recognized as an expert in the field. Experts have mastered all variables, not avoided dealing with them.
@Jim's Goon Life Sure. Discounting Magpul bipods, for one. They weigh less than Harris bipods, are easier to load the rifle into, and are quickly changed out to other platforms. They are easily operated with a single hand, will never rust, and are more easily replaced. That's one example that I saw. Something that I absolutely agree with him on is that those flat range "barricades" with all the holes cut out and wierd angles don't exist in the real world so training with them exclusively is a bad idea. As I said, he is a good instructor, but it's clear to me that some of his views are very much influenced by what others have told him rather than through his own experimentation. We all have opinions and rightly so, but it's a sign of a limited knowledge base to tell a student to avoid a particular item ir technique and not explain why. The only reason that happens is because the instructor doesn't really know why it should be avoided, only that their instructor told them to avoid it. This is where opinion becomes a bad thing. I see it in my profession constantly (K9 handling and training). I'm not condemning him in any way, just saying that he is limiting his own knowledge in some ways.
As an old man, hearing this makes me all nostalgic for Lejeune's DCSC classes. Good times, good days. Wishing civilian life was as focused and ordered.
Holy shit, talk about going back to school for things I thought I knew. Thanks for sharing that. Really insightful, God bless our marines thank goodness they are on our side!
Yo this is a straight data dump. I know all this stuff but if I didn’t I would be retaining maybe 5% of this content. Nothing he’s saying is wrong but holy crap that’s a lot of info to go over all at once
I wonder if he had any recommendations for people like myself who unfortunately live in a commie state where we cannot have suppressors. Does he recommend “blast diffusers” or a particular sort of muzzle brake or flash hider that he would recommend? This is an awesome video thank you
@@ridgeline_defense Well this is awesome I honestly did not expect a response from you personally. Greatly appreciated. Being stuck here in Marxachusetts Is not fun at all and I just built a MK12 clone with a centurion 18 inch barrel with a Leupold 4.5 x 14. So I’m just getting into the SPR world and this is a great video. Love to be able to get out there and take a class someday but in the meantime these videos are amazing thank you very much.
Oh shit, are you guys the ones in Dalton New Hampshire? The guy I trained with is named Steve Morell down here in Rochester Massachusetts at Fox Den Solutions he’s also an instructor at sig sauer. He was literally just talking about you guys the other day for some reason I didn’t put two into together. I’ve been working a lot with him but unfortunately we don’t have anything further than 100 yards to work with which is why he mentioned reaching out to you guys. I didn’t realize this was the same company. I will definitely be up to see you guys I’m gonna go on your website right now
Im looking for a scope currently. I had a 4-16 atacr but on a rifle with all the other goodies it was just to big and heavy. Any recommendations? Ive seen the mk5hd 2-10 but the reticle selection suck. Any help.would be greatly appreciated. Want to stay as short and light as possible
That 28 minutes of instruction should be slowed down to about 4 hours with one on one practice and demonstration. This guy is good at showing how much he knows, but they absorbed about 20% of what he said. For a civilian wannabe-operator course, I guess it really doesnt matter. The goal is minimum work for maximum profit. Ive taught 10hr cqb courses where I taught at this same pace, and most everyone could only absorb a fraction of what I was teaching, when the course should have been 7-10 8hr days minimum. I get the business model though. The customer doesnt know that they need to pay for significantly more time to learn an actual skillset.
I tried the bipod trick and snapped off the polymer mlok pic rail section. Stood there dumbfounded, holding my bipod in my hand by a piece of a paracord like I was about to take it for a walk😂
This is a great video can't wait for the next Parts I wish there was a transcript because he talks so fast and I know he's dropping some great information.
Ive spent forever and triend a ton of scopes... if anyone needs advice on the lightest/clearest/most rugged scopes under $3k is the trijicon tenmile 3x18... thank me later... this isnt an lpvo btw
Great video. Do you think a vortex viper hst 4-16 is too much scope for a 14.5 build like this? Plan on adding an off set red dot or irons. Thanks in advance
Question about the thumbnail. I notice people always place their hands like that when simulating holding a gun. If you drew a rifle to go with the placement of everything. None of it would make sense. There would be like a vertical grip or forward facing grip on the top rail blocking the irons.
Do 3-15x40 lpvos make ones like 1-4 or 1-6 obsolete? Im asking because the min magnification of 3 in a 3-15x40 seems good enough for close shooting and 15 magnification would cover and surpas 4 or 6 magnification.
Recce, SPR, DMR... JuST sO VasTlY difFeREnT!!! Build your own dang rifle, for your own dang location, with what WORKS (as in actually tried it out) best for you. Think for yourself and tell the gun companies to stick it with all their BS products you have to buy to be cool in their eyes.
How do you clean a Douglas barrel? I bought a complete mk12 upper and haven’t cleaned it once. Scared to messed up the stainless steel barrel smh. I haven’t put my spr together and I’ve own the upper snice 2015 🤦♂️
Basically a SPR (Special Purpose Rifle) can be any rifle that fits the environment or the needs of that environment whether urban, rural, jungle, desert, forest, or whatever
I have a hk mr308 a3-28 16,5" barrell and I'm looking for an optic to put on. I would like to have a "list" of 2-3 optics that I think would do their job well.
To be agood teacher you must allow for good communication and confirm the message has been absorbed by the group. You have failed to communicate at the level of the lowest common denominator of your group. FAILED.....BUT GOOD SUBJECT.
If that's what you're worried about, you're never gonna learn anything. He was a seal sniper for his whole career and then taught the new ones. Usless troll comment.
you make some good points but when it comes down to magni you really don't need a magnification that outranges your rifle by an obscure amount, anything over 600 is a prayer and 10 hail marrys' lmao
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I learned more from this video than I did in 12 years of public school. 😂
That’s public school for you😅
Ejuhmicated
This comments is so funny lmaooo 🤣🤣
Seriously. All these years and its only now I learn 50+200=0.
@@iPervy yeah, you got to go to college for that kind of maths.
The 550 cord bipod hack is CLUTCH MONEY! Worth the price of admission right there.
After 30 years of shooting I know most of this already, but he presents it fast and acquirable. Great teacher!
Pretentious and attention seeking ain’t it. Could have just said he presented the information well and not arbitrarily patted yourself on the back. Weird.
@@thomasmarchese2808Not to mention, things like offset dots, LPVO's, and the SPR concept wasn't really around 30 years ago but he already knew most of it lol
No matter how much you think you know, a video like this can teach you a couple more things
Or people like me who don’t know shit about shooting the AR, we learn a ton
then you hear him say the say system is whatever...
T5@@eagleputter64
Thank you Jim and Big Tex. Never heard these topics broken down so clearly and demonstrated. Can’t wait for Part 2.
Video Timestops:
0:00 Jim’s Intro
0:56 SPR definition
1:44 Bipod
5:01 Sling
5:56 Barrel
6:46 Gas System
6:48 Suppressor
7:22 Optics and Magnification
9:12 Optic mount height
10:11 Reticle
10:35 SFP vs FFP
11:55 Parallax
14:21 PEW Pre-shot Checklist
15:30 Length of Pull and eye relief adjustment
17:46 Height of comb adjustment
18:23 Ocular focus adjustment
20:21 Zeroing
21:17 Offset red dots
23:12 Triggers
23:16 Buttstock and rear bag placement
26:12 Magazine selection
26:42 Other support equipment
28:00 Closing
You're going to mess around and get hired to do my descriptions lol
@@jimmybrodriguez Haha, but seriously hmu if I can help. Thanks for the good vibes and for always taking us along to these awesome classes and events.
I put an accupoint 3x9 with triangle reticle. Plan todo a mpbr zero on it, but possibly shouldn’t have bought that reticle. On the other side i think it will fit the gun well.
This guy is no joke you best listen up and pay attention. A excellent instructor period.
What length barrel is on the instructors gun?
Would love to see more of his line 1 setup
Maybe we can make that happen in the future
@@jimmybrodriguez That would be awesome. Everyone says a DM is a good thing to have in the squad but no one to my knowledge has listed the kit for one.
@@jonwebsterabbott I agree with you 100%, would love to see the whole kit
Been shooting for a long ass time and never seen that trick of shining light through the objective lens. Going to keep that in my bag of tricks. Nice work gents.
Old school technique. Also used for checking plumb (hang a plumb bob/weighted string on the wall and project the light through, the shadow from the reticle should align with the plumb bob).
@@silvermediastudioGood stuff!
I can tell by your words that you’re speaking from experience. 👍
Damn it man. Another dope instructor that I need to take a class film added to the list.
Yes would highly recommend. I’m going to try to get out to a couple more of his courses
This MAN speaking clearly has a compendium of knowledge on an SPR. You can hear it in his voice and he just keeps flowing. I would have been pausing him every 30 seconds jotting down whatever I could remember and he'd already be steps ahead.
I have listen to many video's regarding setting up a Rifle. You have made it so easy and simple to understand. Thank You
This dude is awesome. This is amazing knowledge. So thank you!
Yup Alex and Jared were great
I learned so much and confirmed what I thought in my recent SPR build. Thank you for much for this. Definitely looking forward to the next video.
Alex killing the breakdown and representing NH
WoW. Drinking from the Firehose here. Will be playing a few more times AND Taking Notes. And saving for the class. Thank You for the material here.
What is the handguard/rail size of the rifle at 2:22? I'm looking to order either a 13 inch or 15 inch rail for my SPR and I want to make sure I get the right bipod clearance shown in the video for hand positioning.
It took me a second, but I believe it's a KAC URX 4 the 14.5" version.
YO THIS GUY!!! He is legit. I love how in-depth he goes on this setup information.
Is that a 5.56 gun ? What barrel length?
A complete long range 1 class, in less than 30 minutes. Nice! Great knowledge transfer
Medium range.
What is the barrel length the instructor is useing?
I have taken a bunch of classes with Alex at ridgeline there facility is amazing.
I gotta get out and check it out. From what he says it’s the bees knees
@@jimmybrodriguez Every time I’m there (4-timer) they have made more improvements in order to achieve Alex & Rudy’s vision. Truly a world-class facility.
can’t wait to get out there
Incredible knowledge
Alex had a ton of good info. Looking forward to taking more classes from him
This is outstanding, cannot wait for the second episode!!!
Great vid! More like this, please!
I’ve got more stuff in the works
Good intel and great commentary in one solid video. The instructor seems very phenomenal.
I've taken classes all over Texas, and Alex came down for a one-day class for TTPOA. Hands down one of the best classes and instructors I have come across.
Hello to my next build
I immediately came home and started changing my 14.6
The Ranch. Love that place. That tower is one of the best long range set ups I’ve shot from out to 1000yrds. He was talking fast but was easy to follow. Ton of good info
“I looked right, I looked left…I could not find a VTAC barricade.” 😂
what are the specs of the gun he has?
This dude is a vast wealth of knowledge. Thanks for sharing!
dude, super interesting about using eye relief and scope shadow to swag parallax in lieu of an external adjustment.
I have a question I don’t know if he said it or not but when he’s talking about the bipod and stuff is that a 16” barrel? Or 18?
Strongly disagree with some of the details he covered. His approach while very knowledgeable and awesomely conveyed to students, displays his cognitive rigidity and confirmation bias. His "this way is the only way" mentality is limiting his professional growth and the more a person engages in that mentality the harder it may become for them to be recognized as an expert in the field. Experts have mastered all variables, not avoided dealing with them.
Can you give the class a specific example?
@Jim's Goon Life Sure. Discounting Magpul bipods, for one. They weigh less than Harris bipods, are easier to load the rifle into, and are quickly changed out to other platforms. They are easily operated with a single hand, will never rust, and are more easily replaced.
That's one example that I saw. Something that I absolutely agree with him on is that those flat range "barricades" with all the holes cut out and wierd angles don't exist in the real world so training with them exclusively is a bad idea. As I said, he is a good instructor, but it's clear to me that some of his views are very much influenced by what others have told him rather than through his own experimentation. We all have opinions and rightly so, but it's a sign of a limited knowledge base to tell a student to avoid a particular item ir technique and not explain why. The only reason that happens is because the instructor doesn't really know why it should be avoided, only that their instructor told them to avoid it. This is where opinion becomes a bad thing. I see it in my profession constantly (K9 handling and training).
I'm not condemning him in any way, just saying that he is limiting his own knowledge in some ways.
If this wasn't filmed I doubt I would be able to retain all of this information.
Yup ton of good info
As an old man, hearing this makes me all nostalgic for Lejeune's DCSC classes. Good times, good days.
Wishing civilian life was as focused and ordered.
Holy shit, talk about going back to school for things I thought I knew. Thanks for sharing that. Really insightful, God bless our marines thank goodness they are on our side!
I don’t have much in the way of funds right now but that doesn’t mean I can’t soak up some knowledge from professionals😅
One piece at a time. Aero Precision is a great place to start.
Anyone know what rifle/handguard Alex is using?
Yo this is a straight data dump. I know all this stuff but if I didn’t I would be retaining maybe 5% of this content. Nothing he’s saying is wrong but holy crap that’s a lot of info to go over all at once
I wonder if he had any recommendations for people like myself who unfortunately live in a commie state where we cannot have suppressors. Does he recommend “blast diffusers” or a particular sort of muzzle brake or flash hider that he would recommend? This is an awesome video thank you
Flash hider would be my recommendation
@@ridgeline_defense Well this is awesome I honestly did not expect a response from you personally. Greatly appreciated. Being stuck here in Marxachusetts Is not fun at all and I just built a MK12 clone with a centurion 18 inch barrel with a Leupold 4.5 x 14. So I’m just getting into the SPR world and this is a great video. Love to be able to get out there and take a class someday but in the meantime these videos are amazing thank you very much.
@@danielsullivan7740 that's a great setup! We're not that far north from you, hopefully we'll see you and your new blaster in a class
Oh shit, are you guys the ones in Dalton New Hampshire? The guy I trained with is named Steve Morell down here in Rochester Massachusetts at Fox Den Solutions he’s also an instructor at sig sauer. He was literally just talking about you guys the other day for some reason I didn’t put two into together. I’ve been working a lot with him but unfortunately we don’t have anything further than 100 yards to work with which is why he mentioned reaching out to you guys. I didn’t realize this was the same company. I will definitely be up to see you guys I’m gonna go on your website right now
Look at us. Who would’ve thought
Dudes talking way to slow.
😂😂😂
It has taken me years to learn what he glossed over in 15 minutes.
What optics are being used in this class. Looking for options.
One of the best you’ve done to date.
🤘🏼🙌🏻
Interesting to hear that low mounts have uses still when everyone is going to tall mounts.
It’s hard to shoot distance from prone with a 1.93”
It’s not hard just not as comfortable, and sometimes may loose the reticle with fast strings of fire
On bipods, he said something about some Magpul ones and then kept going. What did he mean there?
Ridgeline instructors are phenomenal. Like drinking from a firehose every time I go to their facility but so much fun and they make shooters.
Great content 👍 so much info to digest but relayed in a way that is palatable
Mannnnn. This right here is why people pay to go to Ridgeline. Excellent breakdown Alex. Ivy League education for shooters 👍
Great video!
So what’s your choice for an SPR scope?
Im looking for a scope currently. I had a 4-16 atacr but on a rifle with all the other goodies it was just to big and heavy. Any recommendations? Ive seen the mk5hd 2-10 but the reticle selection suck. Any help.would be greatly appreciated. Want to stay as short and light as possible
Is he running a 14.5 inch or 16 inch? One length preferred over the other?
Looks like 14.5
Count me in for 20+ views of this video trying to process all that exceptional info. A++
That 28 minutes of instruction should be slowed down to about 4 hours with one on one practice and demonstration. This guy is good at showing how much he knows, but they absorbed about 20% of what he said. For a civilian wannabe-operator course, I guess it really doesnt matter. The goal is minimum work for maximum profit.
Ive taught 10hr cqb courses where I taught at this same pace, and most everyone could only absorb a fraction of what I was teaching, when the course should have been 7-10 8hr days minimum. I get the business model though. The customer doesnt know that they need to pay for significantly more time to learn an actual skillset.
I tried the bipod trick and snapped off the polymer mlok pic rail section. Stood there dumbfounded, holding my bipod in my hand by a piece of a paracord like I was about to take it for a walk😂
oof
Videos like this would show the little you know about the entire spectrum. Humbles you.
This is a great video can't wait for the next Parts I wish there was a transcript because he talks so fast and I know he's dropping some great information.
When gun people put their hands up like their shooting a gun (thumbnail of this video) why do they always hold their hand like their shooting a bow?
Foregrip + supinated c clamp grip.
Ive spent forever and triend a ton of scopes... if anyone needs advice on the lightest/clearest/most rugged scopes under $3k is the trijicon tenmile 3x18... thank me later... this isnt an lpvo btw
Great video. Do you think a vortex viper hst 4-16 is too much scope for a 14.5 build like this? Plan on adding an off set red dot or irons. Thanks in advance
Amazing instructor- excellent delivery
awesome Info, thank you!
And suddenly Ridgeline's Scoped Carbine is #1 on my list for 2023!
I've never really understood a 5.56 SPR build. My mind says it should be 308, or similar.
Good lord. Dude is killing it.
Extremely useful video, thank you. Definitely the best and most concise rundown on an SPR setup that I've seen yet.
This dude is the most true world knowledge, no BS I have ever seen. Amazing instructions
Question about the thumbnail. I notice people always place their hands like that when simulating holding a gun.
If you drew a rifle to go with the placement of everything. None of it would make sense. There would be like a vertical grip or forward facing grip on the top rail blocking the irons.
I wanna do a class like this one day :)
Every sane American should have to own a fire arm and be trained to protect our country from foreign and domestic threats.
Dang bro, this is gold. Thank you for sharing.
Information about bipods I never knew 😟good info
Alex is the real deal.
🦍🦍🇺🇸🇺🇸🙌🙌💎🚀🚀🐐🤯🤯🤯🤯🐐🐐🚀🚀💎💎💎🙌🙌🇺🇸🇺🇸🦍🦍
What +5 mag extension works with 20 rnd pmags
All the paralax srtuff needs to be talked about more love it
This video convinced me to attend a class at Ridgeline with him as an instructor.
That instructor had a fine seafood dinner waiting for him and getting cold.
Do 3-15x40 lpvos make ones like 1-4 or 1-6 obsolete?
Im asking because the min magnification of 3 in a 3-15x40 seems good enough for close shooting and 15 magnification would cover and surpas 4 or 6 magnification.
Recce, SPR, DMR... JuST sO VasTlY difFeREnT!!! Build your own dang rifle, for your own dang location, with what WORKS (as in actually tried it out) best for you. Think for yourself and tell the gun companies to stick it with all their BS products you have to buy to be cool in their eyes.
What rifle did you use? Caliber? Scope? Bipod? Muzzle brake? Trigger?
Coming in a future video
@@jimmybrodriguez I look forward to your future videos. Keep up the fine work.
How do you clean a Douglas barrel? I bought a complete mk12 upper and haven’t cleaned it once. Scared to messed up the stainless steel barrel smh. I haven’t put my spr together and I’ve own the upper snice 2015 🤦♂️
You hat screwed me up for a sec lol
What is he pretending to hold on the thumbnail of this video
Basically a SPR (Special Purpose Rifle) can be any rifle that fits the environment or the needs of that environment whether urban, rural, jungle, desert, forest, or whatever
In the spirit of learning, does 5mm height difference would really matter between 1.73" vs 1.54" height? Thank you. Great content
Wow! Great that was freaking Good! Thanks Big Tex and Juanito for the video, Great Instructor! When he coming to Texas Again!!!
I have a hk mr308 a3-28 16,5" barrell and I'm looking for an optic to put on. I would like to have a "list" of 2-3 optics that I think would do their job well.
I’ve listened twice and I don’t think Alex wasted a single word in his presentation.
To be agood teacher you must allow for good communication and confirm the message has been absorbed by the group.
You have failed to communicate at the level of the lowest common denominator of your group. FAILED.....BUT GOOD SUBJECT.
Digging these informative SPR series videos. Super helpful and answered a lot of my own questions. Thanks for doing them 👍
What if I'm running a fixed stock on my MK12 SPR? How do you set up eye relief...?
There is soooo much BS floating around the youtube space. Its refreshing to hear someone who clearly know what they are talking about
Came on autoplay, and this is the most infantryman style info dump I've heard in a while 😁 Stayed even though I'm not a SPR guy
Its kinda hard to take a instructor seriously when he doesn't even have the discipline to be in shape.
If that's what you're worried about, you're never gonna learn anything. He was a seal sniper for his whole career and then taught the new ones. Usless troll comment.
I would like to see exactly what rifle he’s has here and how everything is setup. What barrel he’s using, etc
you make some good points but when it comes down to magni you really don't need a magnification that outranges your rifle by an obscure amount, anything over 600 is a prayer and 10 hail marrys' lmao
He is spitting great tip after great tip without skipping a beat. Impressive instructor. Thanks for sharing!
Big thank you for sharing this great video!! It was very informative in SPR setup and what not do!