There are plenty of brakes our there . You can always get a Delta P adapter if you want to. I know of guys that Loctite theirs on
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There are plenty of brakes our there . You can always get a Delta P adapter if you want to. I know of guys that Loctite theirs on
I redesigned the DTA tool and put it up on thingiverse, Added a 1/2" drive not 3/8", made it shorter and hopefully got rid of the issues the other file had. Any feedback would be grate. If anyone is interested in it the link is hear
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2813886
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2813886
Any suggested loads for a factory 308 barrel, 22"?
I'm hoping to save a little time and money on load development.
Thanks.
I'm hoping to save a little time and money on load development.
Thanks.
I used that delta p adapter with a silencer co hybrid and worked fine. That was before my 338dtss got outta jail.
Cant go wrong with the gold standard 42ish gr of RL15/Varget and a 175 smk.
That works. I have a decent supply of RL15 on hand and 175 SMKs on order.
Thanks again!
Thanks again!
Another awesome shooting barrel from ES Tactical http://www.es-tactical.com/shop/Desert-Tech/ES-Tactical-SRS-Barrels--Conversion-Kits.htm. This was during load development at 200 yards using the 285gr ELDm. About shit myself when I saw this group develope. I know I know it’s only four shots but I only loaded up four shots for each of the different seating depths. I’m learning the 338 Lapua Magnum is a finicky cartridge that is not easy to load for along with being very expensive. It’s a 32” barrel and I believe I am getting about 2900fps. My magnetospeed dies half way through the charge range. I didn’t know this but they have a 2 year warranty thank god. 
Very impressive! I struggle to get groups like that at 100 yards with much smaller cartridges than a 338 LM.
Very nice shooting and congrats on a great barrel.
Thanks man. I have had some good groups before but never this good. Absolutely my best group ever. I just hope the finicky 338LM will keep shooting like this or close. I believe a big part that helps me shoot this 338 is how heavy the barrel is. A good length of the barrel is 1.25” diameter and ends at 1.100” at the muzzle and is 32” long. The rifle weighs 24lbs so not something I plan on hiking with. The fat bastard break helps a ton as well. I have shot 100 rounds in one day and zero pain or soreness and I’m not a big guy either.
I have a TS CUSTOMS barrel in 300 WM, it also shoots amazing. I've fired some groups with it that are hard to believe, fortunately I've had witnesses a few times ! The groups that aren't jaw dropping are still excellent, I've only got about 50 rounds through the DT platform but I'm 100% sold on its capabilities.
Currently, I have 3 conversions and they all shoot great. Two are from SAC and one is a TS Customs. The SAC 223 conversion is especially accurate and will hold 1/4 moa or better with best 5 shot groups in the .1s and an occasional 4 shot group in the .0s at 100 yds. The other two are nearly as good, one being a 260 Rem and the other a 6 Creedmoor.
I finally broke down and ordered a 308 since I have never owned one in the 46 years I've been shooting, believe it or not. I decided to try out a factory barrel in 22" to see how I like it and how it compares to custom conversions for accuracy. All my other conversions are 26", so I wanted to have something a little lighter and more compact. I hope it shoots as well as my customs.
I finally broke down and ordered a 308 since I have never owned one in the 46 years I've been shooting, believe it or not. I decided to try out a factory barrel in 22" to see how I like it and how it compares to custom conversions for accuracy. All my other conversions are 26", so I wanted to have something a little lighter and more compact. I hope it shoots as well as my customs.
I’ve had good luck with the factory 308win 22’’ barrel, 168gr 175gr and 180gr.
I too have had good luck with the factory.308. Running in the sub 1/2 and sub1/4
Sorry for the delay. I've been away from the board for a while.
So far I haven't had much of a chance to do anything with this barrel. The weather turned to crap and its been too cold to shoot. All I've done up to now is run the ammo I loaded for the factory barrel which was 250 gr Sierra Matchkings in Lapua cases with Fed LR Mag Match primers and 97gr of IMR5010. This was giving me 2920fps in the 26" factory barrel and .4" groups at 100. I didn't run the chrono with this load in the new barrel and probably won't since I ran out of the 5010 and won't get any more.
My thoughts with the new barrel were to work up loads for the 300gr bullets and some of the slower powders like WC868, WC872 etc. I wasn't that impressed with retumbo. H1000 was killing brass and primers with a lot less velocity than any of the others I tried so I didn't use much of that one.
Frank
Thanks for getting back to me on the long barrel. Interesting to hear your results with the H1000 and Retumbo. I tested H1000 and didn’t like what I was seeing. Retumbo has been much better so far. I’m hoping for low SDs with this load I have for the 285gr bullets and will confirm as soon as I get my warranty magnetospeed display this week. Going to test the 230gr bullets with Retumbo as well but the sample 5 shot load I quick put together looked promising so far. Of coarse with slower speeds than with H1000 but good group and decent SDs.
Please let me know what your results are when you do get some good weather.
I have a DTA SRS Covert Gen 2. Had it for a couple of years and it seemed like the ejection is getty really weak, up to the point that in -10C shooting this winter it wouldn't eject at all - I had to pick the casing out.
Tried both 175 TMK supersonic and 225 subsonic stuff. All Lapua once fired and FL re-sized.
What should I look at for troubleshooting ?
Also I live in Canada so it'd be a huge PITA to ship the bolt or the rifle to DTA.
Tried both 175 TMK supersonic and 225 subsonic stuff. All Lapua once fired and FL re-sized.
What should I look at for troubleshooting ?
Also I live in Canada so it'd be a huge PITA to ship the bolt or the rifle to DTA.
I think your ejector pin probably is gummed up. Pull the bolt and fit an empty cartridge to the bolt face, does the ejector move freely? If not, put a drop of oil on it and work it up and down.
If the spring is weak, contact DT.
HTH
Sounds like your ejector springs are gone, shoot me an email and I'll get you fixed up; [email protected]
Im pretty certain this is the same issue im having with mine as well. Email incoming.
Thank you sir! Here is mine
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Per my post a couple of pages ago, I think I'm having a somewhat similar issue - round is extracting from chamber but not ejecting clear of the rifle. I'm going to shoot you an e-mail as well, if I may.
Also thanks, here's mine ...
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Awesome to see others enjoying my contribution! As a tool for a full time gunsmith I think it wouldn't last long but to keep in your range bag and get you out of a bind in the field it should work well! I did find another member close to me willing to help me out but for reasons I wont go in to (snowflake on FB had me blocked after he lost his anti gun argument with me) I had to improvise so I put my 3D printer to work.
Anyone hit up SAC for updates on the lefty 223 conversions?
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Sounds good, hard to find any load data. I have the gen 2 version in the pic is a 26 inch 6.5 creed. I have the 22 inch .308 as well as well as a 300 win mag. Have not shit the 300 yet. Still working on loads but will have info soon. Also for people that have dead air suppressors they are releasing 3/4 inch muzzle breaks to fit dt barrels. Been waiting,using a reducer now.
I need a sanity check guys .
In my never ending quest for more performance and less weight, I'm thinking of having my 26" 300 WM barrel cut to 24", fluted and rechambered to 300 Norma. My theory is the 24" Norma will out perform the 26" WM , while the shorter length and fluting will obviously shave some weight.
Before everyone says to get a new barrel, this one is ridiculously accurate and I'm a cheap bastard , a new barrel is not in the cards at this point.
In my never ending quest for more performance and less weight, I'm thinking of having my 26" 300 WM barrel cut to 24", fluted and rechambered to 300 Norma. My theory is the 24" Norma will out perform the 26" WM , while the shorter length and fluting will obviously shave some weight.
Before everyone says to get a new barrel, this one is ridiculously accurate and I'm a cheap bastard , a new barrel is not in the cards at this point.
I have to ask how many rounds are on the barrel now? That aside, I think it would be a waste to do that. Average cost to chamber $275, cut/thread barrel $100 and another $150 to flute just doesn't make sense to me since you won't be gaining much and it shoots good now. That's just my opinion but I understand how it is to want something even though the best option isn't really an option at the moment.
I'm right at 100 rounds on the barrel. I just can't leave well enough alone, I guess I should just use my 7 LRM fluted barrel for weight savings/hunting and use the 300 WM barrel for beating up long range steel.
I've considered selling it but I can't bring myself to part with it. It's the most accurate, consistent barrel I've ever owned, DTA platform or otherwise. 
Typical 5 round group @ 100
17 round group @ 300 yards
Typical 5 round group @ 100
17 round group @ 300 yards
If that’s really a 17rd group @ 300 yds you’d be crazy to mess with that barrel.
With the advent of carbon fibre barrels would you not be better off having a 300Norma carbon built? I find with the barrel out of my chassis the DTA dose not weigh all that much. Im a .308 guy and have thought about getting a carbon .308 built just so I can carry my dta about for hunting.
Yeah I would agree. That's impressive and to fuck with something that good is foolish in my opinion.
Got a load for you DT guys shot it today! 6.5 creedmoor. Still perfecting my .308 loads so I will share it when I get the results I want.
Sorry SRS A1
It's real , and it's 17 @ 300 . The old lady was recording chronograph #s for me and witnessed the whole string .
For anyone interested in the load , it's a 300 WM, 76 grains of H1000 , 215 hybrids @ .020" off the lands , Norma brass with CCI LRM 250s. It makes 2860 with an ES of 7 .
Obviously a C.F. barrel is the solution to my weight limit, but they're not getting any cheaper. I'm going to have to shelf the WM barrel for hunting, it's simply to heavy to meet the weight limit set forth by Idaho. "If you don't weigh in, you don't wrastle".
For anyone interested in the load , it's a 300 WM, 76 grains of H1000 , 215 hybrids @ .020" off the lands , Norma brass with CCI LRM 250s. It makes 2860 with an ES of 7 .
Obviously a C.F. barrel is the solution to my weight limit, but they're not getting any cheaper. I'm going to have to shelf the WM barrel for hunting, it's simply to heavy to meet the weight limit set forth by Idaho. "If you don't weigh in, you don't wrastle".
Finally got the optic on and fired 9 rounds on the 338. Easily sub moa with my last 3 shots. First time with a 338. I'm very impressed with the recoil and sound, thought it would be a lot worse over a 308. Mag load and hand load worked great. Will be turning the digital level vertical once I get the Spuhr rail attachment.
What ballistic software is everyone using? My dad got a Trimble Nomad and it seems so old, outdated, and clunky. I bought Strelok Pro and I seems very legit. I want to try Trasol but it always to be broken on Androids for a long time now.
Love this rifle! Can't wait to get the covert fore end and a short barrel.
What ballistic software is everyone using? My dad got a Trimble Nomad and it seems so old, outdated, and clunky. I bought Strelok Pro and I seems very legit. I want to try Trasol but it always to be broken on Androids for a long time now.
Love this rifle! Can't wait to get the covert fore end and a short barrel.
Hornady 4DOF app is free, good, and will sync with Kestrel. BallisticARC has a nice clean layout, syncs to Kestrel or Weatherflow and is very user friendly in terms of quickly picking the enviros you want + wind dir/shot dir. Also has some cool pages like CompMode and Map view.
I emailed end of January, Sarah replied that they were settling in at the new building and no update.
This is my second inquiry, I ask every 6 months or so. I hope others that were on the buy list are asking too otherwise SAC might think the demand was all smoke and mirrors.
I third this. Crazy if you do.
Stoked with my SAC .223 conversion.
Mark's magazine is insane qualitt and his custom bolt ejector actually kicks out the case like it should.
Finish on barrel is very close to DTS factory so whoa, amazing. I did the 26" barrel so when hunting in non supressor friendly states, my barrel still clears my AN PVS 30. night device
Mark's magazine is insane qualitt and his custom bolt ejector actually kicks out the case like it should.
Finish on barrel is very close to DTS factory so whoa, amazing. I did the 26" barrel so when hunting in non supressor friendly states, my barrel still clears my AN PVS 30. night device
26 inch bbl and cci large primers
There are two answers to this. First, pull back the bokt more aggressivley and the case will make it out.
Secondly, Mark at Short Action Customs makes a bolt head with a mucho better extractor which I am using on my .223 conversion. Case comes out no matter how slowly you cycle the bolt. I emailed him just yesterday to see if he would make me a bolt head with his improved extractor. I'm hoping he can do it for me.
I'm developing an expanding 200gr. Maker REX Subsonic load for the DTS 16" .308 barrel with Josh at copper creek. I have 10 trial loads in hand, 5 of each and I plan on shooting over my magneto speed for Velocity and SD. Ill also post bullseye cam photos with spread evaluation at 100 yards.
Let me know if anyone is interested in my results.
Let me know if anyone is interested in my results.
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I know a lot of people complain about the ejection of the cases, has anyone tried to upgrade the spring? Just a thought, I may take apart one of my bolts and see if there is room for a stiffer spring without the coils binding when chambering the round
Last thing I haven't seen mentioned is that the chamber will have to be moved forward shortening the portion of the barrel that the receiver locks onto. Not a good idea. The only real problem I see with the DT type barrels is that you can't reasonably set them back. If they were made with longer 1.25" dia shanks and simply notched for the lock it might be a different story....as it is your front pinch bolt will have nothing to pinch and I wonder if accuracy will suffer from that?
As someone else noted, get rid of the 300WM and get the barrel you want.
Frank
