Desert Tech/Desert Tactical SRS Covert

You should take his offer and go and try out the DTR, and also the other manufacture, but if you feel that you mush have a bullup precision rifle, then go right ahead and get one from Shooting edge, Jr is a great guy to deal with. if you want to try out AI, SAKO, PGW, STyer let me know, You can meet me out Genesee one of the weekend and try it out, at the End, It all up to you.
PS, you had a change to play with my 50 2 week ago at Genesee at the shoot.

Ohhh I see, we're talking about alternative precision guns at the same price point!

Then yes: accuracy international is definitely a contender ;) You can get a lot of long distance capability for the same price as most Desert Tech stuff.

But I drool over the SRS because of this:

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That 16" version must really BARK!! extended shooting periods with the muzzle that close to the shooter would probably get un-pleasant in short order. Even with the mild mannered .308.
 
cause you don't like the same gun as them. Didn't you know freedom of speech is illegal on CGN. Your not allowed to offer a opinion. That's only allowed in Amurica.

No, stating that the receiver was made from plastic was incorrect. By that logic the AI rifles must be substandard. Some people get offended when Internet ninjas spout out disinformation.

For the record it's not my cup of tea either. I gave CR5 a hard time when he bought his, until I got hands on with it and put rounds down range. As DG stated it's different, and can be awkward to bench shoot. However, try to shoulder fire a timberwolf or AI 338, the DTA makes a handy hunting rifle as well as a LR precision rifle that's easy to carry.
 
most of the part on that act is Space age Polymer, does that sound better. Internet ninja, ha what a jokes.
look from this picture, the action is left of the barrel started, or screw in, after the action is the rifle chamber, all that is aluminum outside and steel barrel with chamber inside, while the bolt resting on is the action when the bolt is fully open, that is all plastic(space age polymer). You gave everybody a hard time every time some one got something to say about it, internet is full of idiot like you, Got nothing good to say, but a lot of correcting, nitpicking...
check out the Accuracy International rifle Demo pt1
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I am asking because I am curious as to which rifle you think compares to the HTI in weight, length, detachable magazine, caliber swap and price point? I have shopped around quite exstensively and have yet to come up with a canadian legal contender.

A steyr is close but the length, weight, sideways mag, different chamber and no caliber swap put it far behind for virtually the same price as a DTA HTI
 
Gunboy, you have been here much longer then myself, so I would have thought you had figured it out by now that when you make a statement as bold as you have, you better have legitimate answers/facts to back up what you proclaim, because you can bet someone is going to challenge you to a debate or ask where you got your facts from.

You seem to fail at this concept.
 
Brian46 what caliber are you specific looking for? Now you want to put all that point about compact,weight, portability, barrel swap, then I would say go right ahead and get the HTI when you sick of playing with plastic gun, come out to genes and I let you shoot a real steel gun, but when I look at the original post, there wasn't any point mention about it, because weight is not really a matter to me, heavy gun will allow you to stable it better, folding stock will help put the rifle in a more compact size, most gun now a day have detach mag, barrel swap get a barrel vide, action wrench and a extra barrel will still run you less than $2000, my buddy steve build a 408 cheytec and a 375 snipetac for a much cheaper price, and the action is stainless steel nor any thing like aluminum reinforce with plastic.
look at this picture again, the aluminum rail is what the sight sit on, the whole body where the grip and part where the bolt sit on when open are plastic, even if you have aluminum inside with reinforce plastic, that the action.
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the action is stainless steel nor any thing like aluminum reinforce with plastic.
Look at this picture again, the aluminum rail is what the sight sit on, the whole body where the grip and part where the bolt sit on when open are plastic, even if you have aluminum inside with reinforce plastic, that the action.
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Sounds like you are a bench rest shooter. If thats what your into, there are much better rifles available then the DT. The DT is all about being a mobile, easy to carry precision rifle, largly designed for military needs.
 
no I am not at all a bench rest shooter, I have shoot the DTA in 308, not bad, have check out several time the HTI 375 snipetac at shooting edge, it hard getting over being it plastic reinforce receiver, if some one manage to convince me that that is just as good as any stainless steel action conventional rifle like Sako or AI, I will gladly get one from shooting edge, but at no time where I would come out here and said that it inferior than other maker.
 
Brian46 what caliber are you specific looking for? Now you want to put all that point about compact,weight, portability, barrel swap, then I would say go right ahead and get the HTI when you sick of playing with plastic gun, come out to genes and I let you shoot a real steel gun, but when I look at the original post, there wasn't any point mention about it, because weight is not really a matter to me, heavy gun will allow you to stable it better, folding stock will help put the rifle in a more compact size, most gun now a day have detach mag, barrel swap get a barrel vide, action wrench and a extra barrel will still run you less than $2000, my buddy steve build a 408 cheytec and a 375 snipetac for a much cheaper price, and the action is stainless steel nor any thing like aluminum reinforce with plastic.
look at this picture again, the aluminum rail is what the sight sit on, the whole body where the grip and part where the bolt sit on when open are plastic, even if you have aluminum inside with reinforce plastic, that the action.
that is far from what you said the first time.

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There is other choice out there when you want to spend that much money.
what are the other factory choices?
 
So all this special option is from you brian46 Right not TV press, because if I was looking at the beginning post that what he is asking not you, there is other manufacture out there that offer the choice for that price, maybe not the weight and compact, if weight is really matter to you, get a savage law fp10 or rem700, put iron sight on if it would cut down more weight, oh yes carry just 5 round that will lighting thing up a lot. the other manufacture, styer, barret, AI , PGW , Sako, and I am sure there is more.
 
Yeah I don't think I've ever seen another bullpup bolt action.

Maybe GunBoy's alternative is the RFB?

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I don't think you're going to get the 1/2 MOA accuracy out of that monster.

cr5, I may have to take you up on that this summer!

Yeah I don't think so! But I would be curious to see a manufacturer build a ss match barrel headspace correctly with a properly sized chamber. With all that it might be able to hold .75 to 1.25 moa. But its still probably never going to be a sniping platform , but might be able to be a compact dmr/saper
 
GunBoy could you try to type in english using full words and proper grammar? I'm having a heck of a time deciphering what you are trying to say.


These video's clearly show the completely disassembled rifle and it's construction. Looks to me like the rifle chassis runs the full length of the rifle and has polymer around it to form the grip, magwell and make a more comfortable cheekweld. If you think that aluminum isn't strong enough for low stress areas of the rifle maybe ask yourself how it's possible that airplanes don't break in half and how so many other things can hold together being made of aluminum. How do AR-15's and so many other rifles that use aluminum survive? Oh, that's right they use steel bolts and barrels and the strong lightweight aluminum is used for everything else besides the stock and pistol grip, starting to sound familiar?

Or for a great vid showing the construction of the rifle

And this one
 
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So all this special option is from you brian46 Right not TV press, because if I was looking at the beginning post that what he is asking not you, there is other manufacture out there that offer the choice for that price, maybe not the weight and compact, if weight is really matter to you, get a savage law fp10 or rem700, put iron sight on if it would cut down more weight, oh yes carry just 5 round that will lighting thing up a lot. the other manufacture, styer, barret, AI , PGW , Sako, and I am sure there is more.
It is not special, you are giving the wrong info, other than mag well, grip and cheek piece the DTA is all metal and steel where it needs to be. You gave your opinion of DTA to TV press saying you handled an HTI at the shooting edge but were obviously not very observant considering you say the bolt rests on plastic.

The HTI is 20lbs in 50bmg, it is meant to be a mobile rifle not something you compete in benchrest with. PGW, barret and AI are all considerably more money, they steyr is the right price but I already went over where it falls short of the mark.
 
Yeah I don't think so! But I would be curious to see a manufacturer build a ss match barrel headspace correctly with a properly sized chamber. With all that it might be able to hold .75 to 1.25 moa. But its still probably never going to be a sniping platform , but might be able to be a compact dmr/saper

My RFB was a pretty steady 1.5 moa with handloads. Problem with their 24 inch barrel model is that it is the exact same barrel just cut longer. I contacted KelTec directly and was told there is no difference in barrel quality only that the blank is cut longer than the 18.5 inch model. So other than a little more velocity I wouldn't expect any more accuracy. There are too many contact points messing with barrel harmonics to get much better accuracy from the design, the barrel is the spine of the rifle and everything attaches to it. A SS barrel might help a little but probably not enough to justify the cost.
 
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I'm no internet ninja, so I don't know for sure but in this pic you can clearly see the chassis extends to the butt of the rifle, holds the magazine and trigger assembly. You can also clearly see the SKINS are merely covers, I recall that the AI rifles are similar :rolleyes: so, I would say this is a proven design concept.

The DTA rifle is actually a pretty competitive design price wise.

On TSE's site an HS Precision 338 is $6k, TRG is about $4K before add on's
PGW Timberwolf is going to be around $6k
Wolverine has the AIAX MC for $7600

I recall CR5 was right in the $7k ballpark for his DTA SRS 338 with full deployment package and soft case. When you consider you only need ONE optic, regardless of how many conversions you buy it starts to make a lot of sense. You can't buy a rifle at this level with optic for the prices of a conversion. Even if you made a switch barrel custom, you still can't do it at the range or maybe in the hunting blind, in under a minute. If you can get over it being a goofy bullpup is makes sense.

Perhaps someone with multiple conversion kits can comment on how consistent the rifle is after a caliber change?
 
Yeah I don't think I've ever seen another bullpup bolt action.

Maybe GunBoy's alternative is the RFB?

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cr5, I may have to take you up on that this summer!


Offer is open to anyone anytime, just give me some notice and we can line up a day when I'm not working (I work shiftwork so I have time off all over the place). I don't shoot on weekends though, I'm really sick of the mall ninja's and GiJoe wannabe's at the range on Saturday's and Sunday's strutting around with their battle gear and tacticool junk.

Maybe I'll just bring it with me on one of my trips to Calgary to shoot with Suputin. You will be in for a real treat if he brings some of his fun stuff :D
 
It is not special, you are giving the wrong info, other than mag well, grip and cheek piece the DTA is all metal and steel where it needs to be. You gave your opinion of DTA to TV press saying you handled an HTI at the shooting edge but were obviously not very observant considering you say the bolt rests on plastic.

The HTI is 20lbs in 50bmg, it is meant to be a mobile rifle not something you compete in benchrest with. PGW, barret and AI are all considerably more money, they steyr is the right price but I already went over where it falls short of the mark.
Ok now that I see the complete take down that the aluminum actually go the full length, which I didn't know, but that aluminum, the only part that are steel are the bolt and the barrel with the chamber, as for PGW is a completely steel receiver, barrel and bolt, not aluminum, as for price wise yes is bit more, barret is less, Ai is more but again not aluminum, it steel. as for the HTI I did handle it at the shooting edge, din't know it actually got the full length aluminum rail, again aluminum not steel.
 
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