Re: DTA SRS .308 The real deal?
You can clean the rifle by pulling the bolt out the back after removing the buttpad/buttplate and then with a bore guide you can clean from the rear like any bolt gun. You can also remove the barrel and clean it that way. I normally remove the barrel from mine as its shorter and simpler that way. They do make a boreguide that can be used in the rifle.
I don't have a .308 barrel for my rifle but I do have .338 Lapua, 12.7 X 48 which is a .510 whisper equivalent, .338BR which is a 7mm benchrest case necked up to .338 for shooting primarily subsonics and a 6.5 X 47 Lapua. The last 2 barrels use the .308 bolt and the first 2 use the .338 Lapua bolt. I shoot all of these suppressed. The point of all this is that despite the price of the rifle it is possible to add calibers for less then the cost of a whole new build. I only had to buy one Nightforce scope, I have one cheekweld, one trigger and one layout to work with. It means you can shoot all these different cals and not need to remember how to handle 4 completely different rifles. Barrel change can be done in less than a minute with only one tool required. Zeros repeat very well and while each barrel may have a different zero they stay the same for each barrel. I swap the .338 lapua for the 510 and add 8 clicks up and 2 right. Its the same everytime I change.
Its a very good system with a lot of possibilities though you ought to at least see one in person and try it on for size before spending a huge load of cash. The bullpup design is not for everyone. I've probably had 50 to 100 people shoot my rifle at various shoots and not one has said it was bad. Most say they didn't realize the bullpup was that nice and a number have gone on to buy the rifles. There is probably someone not too far from you that could either let you have a look at one or possibly even shoot it. Try posting on the dedicated DTA thread linked above.
I sometimes shoot left handed and the only issue with the SRS and lefties is that you have to move your head to run the bolt. That interrupts the cheekweld. Other than that I have no problems shooting the rifle left handed. For those of us who started out lefty and were forced into shooting and writing right handed we have the advantage of being able to shoot either way. . . I wouldn't wait for the left handed version myself.
Frank
