Unfortunately I’m a wild heathen savage and don’t have a pair of calipers. The standard black one is a 308 mag.
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Same as what I did for my SAUM. You can use pliara wrapped up . I've done that too
Mine will be pretty much identical less the can and I use a full length arca on the older Gen 2 picatinny chassis.
My blanks are just about to clear customs, will be doing a 16in 16twist from a Mcgowen straight 1.250 blanks for dedicated thumper using the 395 subx with tinstar and also a 12.5in on a ARC Nuke action on a MPA ultra light chassis.
I’ve been bugging SAC every couple of week about when they’ll get their MID length magazine available again for the 450 BM since the SA won’t work but I have a LA that I plan to modify the follower and weld a front and rear plate and I think it’ll work.
Planning a 1-10 LPVO either the a vudu 1-10 or an Athlon ETR 1-10 so that I can dial it up to 300 yards and a Iray RH25 clip on
Anyone running 6 creedmoor in an SRS having feeding issues? I’m getting some finicky feeding of Hornady 87 varmint express (factory).
What is the difference between the desert tech long action magazines and the norma magazines? Will the norma rounds not feed out of the 300win mag/lapua magazines and vice versa?
@waveslayer, which mag did you use to tweak in order to feed your short magnum cartridge reliably?
@waveslayer, which mag did you use to tweak in order to feed your short magnum cartridge reliably?
I used just the standard. DT only has 2 kinds of mags for the SRS. Standard and magnum.
For my SAUM I can use Magnum no problem, it's just not ideal. Standard mag with bent out lips works better.
They show three on their website with all three having a different part number.
Short action, long action, and norma.
I would have thought the LA magazine would be the best in order to take advantage of the longer bullets and gained powder space. Of course if it won’t mag feed from them then its a no go for me. May its best to stick with the shorter OAL and find where it shoots.
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deserttech.com News to me.... so not sure, but I run 2 mags. Out of my magnums I run 6.5 SAUM, 300 PRC, 300 WM, 338 Norma, .338 Norma AI. Standard I run my 6.5 Creedmoor and 6.5x47 Lapua. And with bent feed lips the SAU.They show three on their website with all three having a different part number.
Short action, long action, and norma.
I would have thought the LA magazine would be the best in order to take advantage of the longer bullets and gained powder space. Of course if it won’t mag feed from them then its a no go for me. May its best to stick with the shorter OAL and find where it shoots.
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Are there different followers in the long and magnum mags...
I would imagine the the third option came about when they started offering the .300 ultra mag.
It would be interesting to measure them to see the differences , I doubt there is much
Nah, none on my end, and I'm shooting 95 VLD TGT & 110 A-Tips
Anyone having issues in feeding 6 creed? Particularly factory Hornady 87 vmax.
I'm running 338NM from my "300wm" mags with no issue
@Georgedubya I ran 108 ELD-M today with no issue. I think I've run about 600 rounds of it through my A2 at this point. Don't recall any issues other than having to give it a slap to get it to lock into battery. I am not running a raceway plug/bolt stop and have used 10 round mags exclusively
I have heard that the .50 BMG HTIs have had issues running ball & other MILSPEC ammo. Have any of you running .50 BMG experienced this?
My SAC 32” Bartlein barrel will not run Federal Ball ammo or Thunder Ammo 770 grain solids. Bolt has to be hammered open. Hornady ammo runs fine and so do my reloads with new RWS brass, after I bump the shoulders back .002”.
My SAC 32” Bartlein barrel will not run Federal Ball ammo or Thunder Ammo 770 grain solids. Bolt has to be hammered open. Hornady ammo runs fine and so do my reloads with new RWS brass, after I bump the shoulders back .002”.
I avoid shooting that kind of ammo through my 40 inch Lilje. However, it shoots the American eagle 660 grain just fine when I run an occasional box through it. I bet you they board you a match chamber that is a bit tight for extracting the mill surp stuff. Either that or it’s too hot. Tear one apart and see what’s in there
Chamber is extremely tight. SAC reamed it out .003” more so I hope that helps.
I’m wondering if DT factory barrels have a match/tight chamber as well?
I emailed Proof Research to ask if they had any interest or considered manufacturing stainless and carbon barrels for the Desert Tech rifles. I'm curious if any of you would be a buyer if they come in as an affordable and readily available alternative at least for some of the more popular cartridges and lengths for the short and long handguards? There probably isn't enough Desert Tech shooters out there to make sense although they make barrels for the DD5 rifles. I would be a buyer myself.
Edit: They got back to me already and said they used to offer blanks but discontinued due to low sales just as I figured. I wouldn't be interested in blanks anyhow.
Edit: They got back to me already and said they used to offer blanks but discontinued due to low sales just as I figured. I wouldn't be interested in blanks anyhow.
Do you avoid Thunder Ammo as well? If so why? Just curious.
Yup, a few years ago you could get SRS-compliant blanks from Proof directly from their website, but not anymore.
We're a small community, guys.
We're a small community, guys.
My particular barrel shoots lights out and it has a limited lifespan so the last thing I’m gonna do is shoot non-serious 660 FMJ through it. That’s for plinking in an AR-50.
Makes sense regarding the ball ammo.
I was referring to the 770 & 802 grain brass solids Thunder Ammo sells.
I have never shot a solid through my 50.
If you have RWS brass/primers and AMAX I’d say you’re on the right track.
And no I’ve never known a factory DT barrel to not shoot mil surplus
If someone was really wanting Carbon, I know Carbon Six offers blanks.
Just got home from Mammoth. Figured I'd post a pic of the SRS A2 cleaned up
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Any talk of the 8.6 Blackout in the DTA world? Seems very limited until it picks up the 1:3 blanks would need to be tracked down.
nice...fastest twist I see is 1:6 not sure if 1:3 can be sourced
I doubt they will sell you a blank, but the HTI bolts may have interchangeable heads like the SRS bolt. That means theoretically someone could make a .338LM compatible bolt head for the HTI, but it’s probably not practical.
Good question. I know the HTIs are much larger in diameter, like 1.6” or so. I sounds like a question for SAC since they have the experience creating a custom bolt head for their 223 conversions. It sounds like that’s what you would need; a custom bolt head for your HTI, assuming the HTI bolt extractors are even in the right spot. I doubt DT would sell you an HTI bolt head with the bolt face unmilled for a variety of business and legal reasons.
Guys I need a VARGET load for a SAC 223 conversion 22.5" 1;1.77 twist. I had a superb load: 25.5 grains of RL15 loaded to 2.50" COAL (mag length) in hornady (high capacity thin walled) brass, about 100.7% case capacity according to QL, with a 75 ELD-M. 3000+ fps (got hotter with temp, one of the downfalls of RL15, but it's a 223 so who cares). This load got me consistent hits on an 18" plate at 1150 yards. But yesterday, I made a huge boo boo and poured 1/2 pound of Accurate 2015 into a jug of 8# of RL15 thus ruining about $300 of unobtanium powder; my final and only jug. Time to go to VARGET, ordered 16# from PV where remarkably its in stock. I'm thinking 25 grains compressed load (103% or thereabouts). Thoughts? Experience?
Yea I got a quote for $2285 that's way to much. You can get a 22 creed barrel and be happy with that set up
When I was loading 77gr SMKs in a 20” .223 bolt gun many years ago, I was using 24gr of Varget at 2.25” COAL.
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do you happen to know the case capacity? what case was it?
I have used 24gr of 2208 with the 77 HPBT Sierra's....case was Lapua
Thank you! given that my Hornady brass has about 2 more grains capacity and I'm loading to 2.495 COAL, I think the 25 grain load I'm going to try will work just fine with the 75
With my SAC .223 kit (24" 1:7.5) I run 24.5 gr Varget, Lapua brass, cci 450, and a 77gr Berger OTM set 0.01 of the lands. It's been an extremely accurate combination.
wow if that's not hot, I'm going to be fine with 25 grains. I was tempted to go to 25.5...maybe next batch if this batch shows no pressure
Did you ever find out anything else on this? I'm interested in the 8.6 kit but only with the fast twist.
