Desert Tech confirms a Canadian MDR
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jonathanwelch
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I find it somewhat amusing that Canada still uses the Imperial measurement of 'inches' in regards to firearm legislation. Kind of surprising we are not expected to convert from Metric to Imperial.
andrew3081
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I just like their sense of humor. The fact that they have actually looked into both Canada and Australia, with our limited markets, impresses the heck out of me. It's nice that we, in the great white north, get consideration from some of the firearms manufacturers out their.
It may in fact be the "Golden Age" for us firearms enthusiasts. They are producing new ones and different ones at such a rate that even the Liberals would fall behind trying to find ways to prohibit them.
It may in fact be the "Golden Age" for us firearms enthusiasts. They are producing new ones and different ones at such a rate that even the Liberals would fall behind trying to find ways to prohibit them.
Blastattack
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They have a brilliant marketing team. That is a superb ad for their product.
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So the "take my money" posts are well under way...
I give it another hour before the "where is the pre order" posts start, followed shortly thereafter by the "the lab is wasting my time" posts, followed by "they'll never approve it until the liberals get in and ban it" posts hahaha.
All kidding aside, this is awesome news. Nice to see another bullpup for the Canadian market.
I give it another hour before the "where is the pre order" posts start, followed shortly thereafter by the "the lab is wasting my time" posts, followed by "they'll never approve it until the liberals get in and ban it" posts hahaha.
All kidding aside, this is awesome news. Nice to see another bullpup for the Canadian market.
jonathanwelch
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Yes, that is correct. My point being that the majority of barrel length dimension discussions in this country tend to lean towards the Imperial dimension of 'inches' vs centimetres or millimetres. Similar I would say, to carpentry where it seems more common to measure using inches. You see this in many applications in Canada.....
The non-firing prototype based on rapid prototyping was demonstrated in 2014 Jan.
The firing prototype was being tested for cyclic rate and the video was posted on Oct 22.
I have my doubt they can ship a finished product within 12 months. 2016 Summer is probably realistic if they are going at full speed.
The firing prototype was being tested for cyclic rate and the video was posted on Oct 22.
I have my doubt they can ship a finished product within 12 months. 2016 Summer is probably realistic if they are going at full speed.
TV-PressPass
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This is very true. Anyone who handled the shot show "prototypes" could see that they're a long way from full production.
But Desert Tech has grown by leaps and bounds in the past 5 years. They've expanded beyond just rifles to selling ammunition, optics, & suppressors, and running their own training courses.
This is a question of the capability of their product design + engineering team, production engineering team as well as their shop capacity ( space, machines and human ) and their contractors' capabilities + scheduling.
I guess you can do some of the things in parallel by taking some risks. We are talking about finalizing the design properly, spec'king out parts and putting in orders with contractors, designing, setting up and testing a production line, figuring out and adding manufacturing capacity, training stuff, testing the production prototypes, tweaking the line and the product design....an iterating process all completed within 12 months.
If they don't make thing mostly right in the first time, they will end up like Microtech with their AUG clones. Even Beretta runs into issues that are probably due to rushing through the process with the ARX100, that is after 1 year of delay.
andrew3081
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The official system is metric in Canada I believe.
It really depends on who it is in Canada, some people use imperial and some people use metric.
They certainly became of Canada when Stormbringer let out a howl of enthusiasm at the press conference last Jan.
He, lonedrone and myself made sure to remind DT of the Can market.
I just went back into my emails with DT. As of Oct 13th, the prices quoted in Jan (~$2150 and $2450) were still valid.
