Thinking about purchasing dar22

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Hey guys, Thinking about purchasing dar22 but have a few concerns, mainly reliability. Would purchase with the sporter chamber to increase the ammo options.

Does anyone have experience with these guns? Do they run smooth? Are they all there cracked up to be?

I really like them but seen a YouTube vid with a dar22 repeadidly jamming and it sorta gave me a bad vibe but ofcourse it could have been the ammo/mag/whatever

Any hands on experience opinions would be great.

Are there any other tricked out complete 10/22's available in canada?
 
I do not personally own one, but I have heard that with an 8.5" barrel, you need to use high velocity ammunition, CCI mini mags, for example. Using lower velocity ammunition with a short barrel causes issues with cycling the weapon. Anyone else who knows more, feel free to chime in.
 
I have one with a 16.5" barrel and have used american eagle, CCI mini mags, Remington bucket o bullets and HV fiocchi and it function 100% perfectly with the standard magazine and the HC3R mags.

The only ammo mine hates is the Winchester HV Expert, just jams after 2 or 3 rounds constantly.

I love mine its a nicely made rifle and is accurate but they are quite heavy for a 22.

There are lots of other 22's available in canada but the Dlask one is made here, buy Canadian!!!
 
ive made 2 guns using Dlask Dar22 parts.

one shorty and one long range gun.
love them both!

will never sell them or change them, they are perfect guns!

i have yet to have any problems with them, i currently run Blazers in them for plinking and have had 0 problems.
i have run other ammo as well and have had no problems either, but not a wide variety.
some Winchester and some federal i think?

i plan on building 3 more of the short ones, one for each of my kids as they turn 14 because they LOVE that little gun.
you cant find a better receiver in canada then the Dlask ones.
his barrels are heavy suckers but they are good.
some people complain that they are ruff, on the inside, the rifling but ive had no problems with mine and i have friends that have the 12.5's and no problems with their either.

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Most of the problems occur when guys buy a gun with the Xtreme chamber and then ignore Joe's ammo recommendations. You have to test for accuracy AND function if you are going to get a tight chamber... not only is the DAR22 a good product, but Dlask has excellent customer service... Josef stands behind his products.
 
I have one with the match chamber and 16.5" barrel. No problems whatsoever with jamming. In fact, it's probably the most reliable .22 semi I've used.

Federal Gold Medal Target (load 711B) works great and is extremely accurate in the gun, so I haven't experimented very much with other ammo. Federal 714 and SK+ also shot and cycled well. Dlask advises against using CCI.

This is a high quality rifle, well worth the money unless you're just looking for a plinker.
 
I have one with a 10.5" barrel from Fab Sports. Works great with remington yellow jacket ammo and some others as well.

It took about 1500 rounds to break the gun in and the adjustable V-Block really helped it cycle better.
 
I run CCI Standard Velocity in my DAR-22 with the Dlask 12" barrel with no problems. Had to have them do some fitting of the magazine hole (not sure what to call it...the hole in the receiver that the pin in the front of the magazine goes into) as well as fitting of the barrel before it would function perfectly though.
 
A couple myths need to be put to bed. First, short barrels do not affect reliability of a blowback .22. That is a gas gun problem with short barrels. Next, short barrels do not give up accuracy. Barrel and ammo quality are the only two factors that do.
 
supernova said:
A couple myths need to be put to bed. First, short barrels do not affect reliability of a blowback .22. That is a gas gun problem with short barrels. Next, short barrels do not give up accuracy. Barrel and ammo quality are the only two factors that do.
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so whats the point to longer barrels?
 
supernova said:
A couple myths need to be put to bed. First, short barrels do not affect reliability of a blowback .22. That is a gas gun problem with short barrels. Next, short barrels do not give up accuracy. Barrel and ammo quality are the only two factors that do.
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Do you honestly think a dlask 8", 12.5" and 16.5" all group the same at any distance?
Prove me wrong please!
 
Balance, sight radius, tradition. After about 12" most .22lr ammo gains very little velocity then begins to lose velocity as barrel length increases. Usually velocity pretty much flatlines until 18-20" then slowly falls off. We're talking negligible amounts here not leaps and bounds. There's a lot more variables with other cartridges especially center fire but with a .22 long barrels don't do much for you unless you shoot irons for precision work or require a specific balance for offhand shooting. (Think biathalon) because there is negligible velocity gain and 40 gr. bullets are stabilized in even an 8" 1:16 twist barrel there are no accuracy gains to be had from a longer barrel. The accuracy is a direct result of barrel quality, assuming the rifle, ammo and shooter are all up to the task of course. An 8" .22 can print nice tiny groups too. If accuracy was a result of barrel length then why don't we see 30" barrels on .22's? Technically they should be the most accurate and shorties should shoot like crap, according to those who own neither. That's not to say barrel length hurts accuracy either as we've all seen tack drivers with longer barrels too. Its the quality of the barrel that makes the accuracy possible.

richyrichy said:
so whats the point to longer barrels?
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I agree with you on most of this, however if you are shooting the same dlask barrel but different lengths, do you think at 25/50/100yds they'd all group the same?
Yes everything after 16-18" is overkill. I'm just thinking twist rate and the bullet would twist more in a longer barrel, thus spin and stablize thus group better with a longer gun.
If 8" is all you'd need, why isn't the national team using them? Why don't we see them in biathalon?
 
little_airwolf said:
I agree with you on most of this, however if you are shooting the same dlask barrel but different lengths, do you think at 25/50/100yds they'd all group the same?
Yes everything after 16-18" is overkill. I'm just thinking twist rate and the bullet would twist more in a longer barrel, thus spin and stablize thus group better with a longer gun.
If 8" is all you'd need, why isn't the national team using them? Why don't we see them in biathalon?
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A bullet does not spin "more" from a 16 twist 20" barrel compared to a 16 twist 10" barrel... there are many factors affecting "accuracy"... barrel length is one of the factors affecting it least... and it would take a few pages to explain all of the nuances of physics as to why this is so... google is your friend... cross reference your sources... you could be reading the opinion of another kid.
 
Ok ok, so as long as I'm not shooting competition I should be ok with a 12.5" barrel? It would be nice to keep the weight down. Also 12.5" don't cycle the action as we'll??
 
richyrichy said:
Ok ok, so as long as I'm not shooting competition I should be ok with a 12.5" barrel? It would be nice to keep the weight down. Also 12.5" don't cycle the action as we'll??
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The 12.5" barrels cycle as well as any other length... barrel length does not have a direct impact on cycling... as with all blow back actions, there is some tweaking required... mostly just finding the right ammo that your gun likes for function and accuracy... but testing ammo is part of the fun.
 
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