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I've had my 95mm spotter on it. No more wobble than any other ultralight tripod with it.

I don't have this model but every vivo I have tried has been too narrow for my 4E foot but by a lot. The width is all in the toe box, which is fine for a normal width foot and good toe spread but awful for an actual wide foot. I'd say that if you are a E/EE you would most likely be fine with vivos in general. An EEE/EEEE not so much. Vivos tend to be low volume in the arch and instep as well. Lems tend to be higher volume in my experience but aren't as barefoot (some models being worse than others like the Grip/Summit). Xero is higher volume and significantly wider in the mid/forefoot but way narrower in the toe box. Similar stack height though. Jim Green barefoot boots are super high volume, an actual 3E last with a wide toe box but it is round and not anatomical plus they aren't as flexible and have a high stack height. Sounds like you are in a similar situation to me, I can't have any arch support at all, or my feet hurt, a lot. Sadly, with extra wide feet, high arches and a high instep I haven't found a perfect solution yet. Good luck.

The mdt hnt26 weighs about 31oz in it's factory configuration. I was able to get mine down to approximately 18oz with the non folder stock and 21.5oz with the folder stock. I was able to get an LSS chassis down to about 31oz including a folder stock.

I usually wear an 8.5 US. I like the ESC Tracker a bit loose.

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Couple things to say about that... the boots are dirty in the video. Once fully repolished, they don't look half as bad. I tried to emphasize "well over 100 miles" in my comments. These boots were new last March if I recall correctly. For trail miles, most weeks through April and May last year I would do 3-4 short 2-3 mile day hikes each week. June-Aug, most weeks saw at least one 5-10 mile hike with a few shorter hikes mixed in. late Aug-Oct, I would do several 7-12 mile hike days most weeks. To give an idea from this spring since I posted the video, I've put quite a few miles on the bigger pair since April 1st (40 miles the 1st week in April, 30 miles the 3rd week in April, 25 miles the 4th week in April, 15 miles the 1st week in May, 20 miles this week, etc) and they look pretty much the same as they did in the video. Looking at the tread on either pair, I would guess I have worn down less than 10% of the useful life if the tread itself (compared to what it looked like new)

That's wildhide leather with a stitched sole. It will outlast many of your favourite regular boots and be 100 times more comfortable while doing it..

I had four different shoes from Vivo with average lifetime of 4 months.

@@Ondraha That's great. Their non stitched shoes are pretty bad. This is stitched and wildhide leather. It's completely different it's not rocket science..

@@Ondraha Were you hiking with their sandals XD?

Nightforce and trijicon are the only scopes you listed that are durable and will track reliably, all of the others have failed many tracking and drop tests, the nxs 2.5-10x42 would be good, credo 2.5-15, tenmile 3-18, atacr 4-16…. Cheapest would be the 2.5-15 which is literally perfect for what you want, I have tried all of these and I prefer the tenmile and credo for price and a night weight, good glass, and damn tough

I agree that would be an awsome combo, however no the hinge point is wider on the AT125 than the 225, I don't see how they could be swapped.

I agree, I wish there were more 1MOA red dot options for ultralight rifle builds, that would allow for precision shooting out beyond 100 yards.

I need one. Therefore, I'll just go and get one.

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@@ultralightoutdoors Appreciate it!

I use the FP Kingfoam 5mm. I transitioned over the course of several months rotating back and forth with my old boots. Not sure if that was necessary... but it worked for me.

And one of the reasons I actually prefer the Trijicon Credo 2.5-15x42. For those who don't need FFP, but want all of the other features of the Tenmile (and a 2oz weight savings) I find the Credo is the best of both worlds.

Thanks for the comment! Yes, even just a decade or so ago, an "ultralight AR15" would have been over 5lbs bare. Lots of innovative ideas to bring us to this point. It will be interesting to see what the next 10 years will bring.

A factory tikka action without any mods will be probably in the 30oz range. There are certainly lighter-weight action options out there. For example, I went with a MacBros Element for a recent build... around, around 23oz including a trigertech special... however, if you do some ti mods to a Tikka, and have the bolt aggressively fluted, swap the bolt handle for a ti one, etc... you can get a Tikka action into the mid 20s. If you have the cash... Defiance now has their Ti X model which would be around 20oz including a trigger... but at over $2k, it will cost you. The MacBros Element is a good budget compromise between the tikka and going full Ti, and can be had for under $900 with Mil discounts. MacBros are next door to LRI if you want them to do the barrel and chamber work for you. As for the short vs long barrel issue. I would have agreed with you until the past couple years. With the suppressors we run to protect the hearing of the youth we hunt with, a 20 inch or longer barrel just becomes ungainly in the woods... all of my primary hunting rifles now have either a 16 or 18 inch barrel. The velocity loss has been largely overcome with finding powder/bullet combinations that get me back some of the velocity loss from the shorter barrel.

I removed the factory recoil pad and replaced with my own foam version. I also cut down the ends of the stock to replace with more foam as shown in one of the diy videos.

I don’t live in a hot and humid part of the world, but I have tried them up to 80 degrees and they were still very comfortable

I hiked in mine about 40 miles the first week in April and another 40-50 miles this past week. Coldest mornings were below freezing and warmest afternoons were in the 70s F. I was wearing my bigger pair and two pairs of socks... standing around in the cold for an hour or two, my toes started to get cold... and in the heat of the day my feet felt warm and a bit sweaty... but not too bad. In hot summer months, I would be wearing a single thin pair of socks... maybe with a nylon liner sock under it. But, I would add that hot sweaty feet don't tend to bother me, and I haven't had a blister in decades... so my feet might be different than others. My wool socks are definitely damp at the end of a long hike day.

You can also try the Magna ESC and Magna Lite versions which should be more breathable for summer.

Interesting build suggestions. Check out my other video where I discuss my recent 6mm CM build: MacBros Element action, 18 inch K&P Barrel installed and fluted by LRI, HNT26 Chassis with my own diy Folding stock, 2.5-10x42 NXS, Ultra7 Suppressor. Bare rifle is about 4.25lbs, scoped, suppressed, and with tripod its less than 7.25lbs. With 108eldm and N555, it does 2850fps and half moa. It also might be worth a discussion to review the Vortex LHT and Leupold scopes you recommend. Check out the scope drop testing threads on Rokslide for some reliability info. I had a couple of those LHT scopes, and while feature packed... I was concerned about reliability during hunts, as I have had other "quality" scopes fail in the past. A warranty is worthless to me if it costs me a shot on an animal. I had a lengthy discussion with a vortex engineer over the course of a week that did not inspire confidence... and when it was clear to me that they value the concept of customer service through an excellent warranty more than building a product that is less likely to need a warranty to begin with... I returned the scopes and went back to my more trusted nightforce, trijicon, and swfa scopes.

​@@ultralightoutdoors Will do . I just realized if not twisting turrets, the S&B Klassic 3-12 or 4-16 can be had under 1500 USD with the optical and mechanical performance everyone knows LOL Trijicon Ten Miles are made by Light Optics work in Japan and stamped with Trijicon name and so is NXS and NX8 scopes. None of the NF Trijicon and SWFA has the track record that S&B has tbh. Only if they can make tactical featured scopes for less. Leica actually has their new Amplus 6 line around that price range. Zeiss conquest v4 is also made by LOW in Japan so not too much difference from those previous. There are some spooky light weight hunting scope on the leupold VX Hd lines like the VX3HD 4.5-14x40 weights like 15oz too and like you said the track record is really unknown since they are still quite new.

If you want another cheaper stock option, I recently carved up an MDT LSS chassis (cut down the forend and ground down the aluminum in non structural places to shave weight) and including my DIY stock and a folding mechanism, I'm at the same 30oz weight as an MDT HNT26 folder... but for about a third of the price.