Review: Kalix CR1 Cheek Riser

The shotgun people have a lot to teach us about gun-fit. No clay-buster who takes their sport even semi seriously shoots from a stock without an adjustable cheek riser.

There's nothing new going on here, but Kalix have changed the expectation. At an unbelievable price, I still can't believe I bought one. But......

Wooden stocks aren't selling, most plastic stocks are a bit or a lot horrible. Tikka probably being the worst offender. Lots of companies are asking an unreasonable premium for their unprepossessing adjustable model. Yes Tikka I mean you.  Most of the carbon stock makers do a lower cost version non-adjustable for half the price of their flagship. 

Kalix have a solution.

Plenty of brands make a mechanism, but it not only involves a big curved cut in your stock, which is tricky to do with home tools, it also needs lots of patching and filling.  Before you get to the bit where you need to make the two sections line up. 

Kalix. Stick template to stock, drill four holes. Ya done.

  

Kalix also make a rather elegant solution for wooden and solid stocks. More about that another time.

 

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