[Westside] Thick Fairway Driver Similar to the Stag

[dwalk77]

Even though the Westside Stag has flight numbers of 8/6/-1/2, I find it to be more understable than that. Especially after being beat in a little, I find it to be more like 8/6/-2/1. Something I can hyzer flip or get to turn fairly easily if thrown flat.

The thing I like about the Stag is how full it feels in my hand. I have big hands/long fingers. A lot of the popular shapeable fairway discs such as the FD or Leopard3 feel uncomfortably shallow in my hand. The Stag has more rim thickness, depth, and height than them.

Has anybody else had this experience or have any recommendations?
Nothing wrong with the Stag, but I like to experiment with new discs from time to time, and I hate to rely on one mold for an important slot like this in my game.
Thanks!

 

[thatdirtykid]

May be fairly similar in stability to the stag but the Chameleon is known as the #ChunkyDriver for a reason. It has a 2.0 rim (10 speed) but is taller and behaves more like an 8 or 9. Tarpit is borderline OS, but is base plastic and breaks in some. Keeps its fade a good while. Nylon Armor is the next most stable. Then Armor. Amber being the flippest. Great feeling disc that covers a ton of shot shapes with just one disc.

Staying in the Trilogy family the Westside Bear is the natural step up in stability from the Stag. I enjoyed the bear and found a lot of use out of it, but never really liked the plastic.

 

[Sewer bill]

I don't know about the flight numbers but the vandal is a tall rim flippy fairway and feels really good in hand.

 

[@CD-]

Using Infinite Discs' advanced search I punched in the specs for the Stag rim width & depth and came up with these other molds:
Westside Bear
MVP Terra
Finish Line Torque
Prodigy FX-3
Lone Star Mad Cat

If you are looking for similar rim depth discs in wider/narrower rim width (speed) then you can change the search around.
From my experience, EXP/Eagle/Banshee all feel a bit deeper in the premium plastics vs. the FD/Leo3. I do think the Bear is intended to complement the Stag.

 

[discchess86]

Comparing dimensions, i would say the cosmic from alpha discs is quite similar to the stag. It's an 8|6|0|2.

 

[Serious-OLD]

IME with the Stag, it has a good bit of turn and a good bit of fade which puts it on the Eagle spectrum instead of the T-Bird straight to mild fade spectrum.

I might look at Velas (nice and thick) or less stable Eagle runs than the Barsbys and Halos going around.

 

[Moose33]

May be fairly similar in stability to the stag but the Chameleon is known as the #ChunkyDriver for a reason. It has a 2.0 rim (10 speed) but is taller and behaves more like an 8 or 9. Tarpit is borderline OS, but is base plastic and breaks in some. Keeps its fade a good while. Nylon Armor is the next most stable. Then Armor. Amber being the flippest. Great feeling disc that covers a ton of shot shapes with just one disc.

Staying in the Trilogy family the Westside Bear is the natural step up in stability from the Stag. I enjoyed the bear and found a lot of use out of it, but never really liked the plastic.

Came here to say that. That's a perfect selection if you like a chunky driver. They fly really well too.

 

[PastorofMuppets]

If you want to stay in the Trilogy family and don't like the feel of the Bear, test the feel of the Saint Pro. Straight to overstable late flight 8 speed. And you can up the stability by going to Orbit and Ice plastics.

As suggested above the Lone Star Discs Mad Cat (9 4 0 2) and the Lone Star Discs Wrangler (9 5 -1 2) both fill the hand and have a more overstable flight than the Stag in my experience. The Wrangler has noticeably more glide and stays straighter longer before a good solid fade, whereas the Mad Cat is more like a Thunderbird in flight, especially as it beats in.

 

[gooberau]

I throw the Stag a lot and can help. If you want a more overstable Stag, you can get the Stag-X. Going more overstable than that I find the Bear (stock VIP run) is a wonderful disc. Feels just like a Stag too. Be careful, the first run VIP-Ice Bears are a lot flatter and more overstable.

Underworld / Hatchet / Maul / Stag / Stag-X / Bear / Ahti is a great line up for me. (58 years old, 300' thrower)

 

[Twmccoy]

I'd say the Saint is fairly similar to a Stag. Same speed, and fairly flippy.

 

[ff33]

Using Infinite Discs' advanced search I punched in the specs for the Stag rim width & depth and came up with these other molds:
Westside Bear
MVP Terra
Finish Line Torque
Prodigy FX-3
Lone Star Mad Cat

If you are looking for similar rim depth discs in wider/narrower rim width (speed) then you can change the search around.
From my experience, EXP/Eagle/Banshee all feel a bit deeper in the premium plastics vs. the FD/Leo3. I do think the Bear is intended to complement the Stag.

bear & terra are so far off a stag, i gues it shows how buying discs on the numbers can be a mistake sometimesl

 

[fishballer06]

Have you tried the Essence?

 

[Fistymcbuttpuncher]

Lat64 XXX(7/3/0/4) and Trident(6/4/0/3) have very chonky rims and are nice OS/stable drivers.

 

[Mist Mando]

My fairways are in fact XXX - Bear - Stag - Underworld, with very little overlap in how I use them. (I'd also slot in a River between the Stag and Underworld if you took away my Bolt because intermediate ams aren't allowed to use distance drivers.)

 

[Fistymcbuttpuncher]

Only fairway I bag thats 'chonky' is my champ IT. Very understable, tons of glide though.

 

[lee76007]

It's been almost three years since I've had a Stag which was stable for me. Since then I've had a Westside Bear when I gripped it immediately reminded me of the Stag, Bear had some nice fade it's been about two years ago. The past month a Lat 64 Saint first grip immediately reminded of the Stag, and Bear. The Saint is flippy and understable more distance than Bear and Stag. Nice turn flip.

 

[GripEnemy]

Hate to be a curmudgeon but...throw a faster mold a bit less hard? Searching for a unicorn isn't fun.

A Buzzz is a 5 and a Valkyrie is a 9 but both go far as hell. Same applies to faster discs going shorter distances. Sexton is famous for throwing his Firebird on very short approaches.

Just sayin

 

[Fistymcbuttpuncher]

I'm assuming they want the actual wing to be meaty, not just the width of the rim. Like how the wing of the IT is very fat compared to the leopard's fairly sharp wing. The blunt wing nose fills the hand much fuller than the sharp wings.
For some, that 'fullness' in grip is everything. That's how I am with putters, gotta be flat topped, no puddle top, no big bead. Fills my grip perfectly.

 

[GripEnemy]

Never held or even seen a side profile of an IT, but I'll take your word.

Regardless of speed (excluding putters) there aren't many beefy rimmed discs out there. Generally contradicts the distance/speed/rim width physics of a flying circle lol

 

[Fistymcbuttpuncher]

Hence their desperation leading them to post asking for suggestions lol

But yeah, XXX, Trident, and IT are meaty rimmed bois.
(that sounds wrong)