LRRPF52 Wrote:I have spent weeks firing the SRS from 0900 to 1700 daily, mostly .338 LM and .308, with a few .300 WM and .243 thrown in.

You do have to re-learn how to manipulate the bolt, but once you adjust to the SRS's bolt using the open palm forward technique, it is actually easier for me to operate the bolt/rapid bolt manipulate, than a stard manual turn bolt action. The reason is that my hand lifts the bolt when it comes up naturally, and the 1st metacarpal can be used to bring the bolt back.

The triggers on the SRS are nothing like a bullpup trigger, and are quite nice. They are very light, with a very short travel. The guns went through the normal teething issues any new design will go through, and I think that evolution has brought out a lot of great features in the SRS-A1, which feels like a different rifle to me. Will be interesting to see what the debut at SHOT next week.

LRRPF52 Wrote:From what I recall, they developed the munition and delivery system on their early Block 15 F-16A/B's, although the actual capability to arm it with a nuclear warhead remains dubious.

A lot of the F-16A/B's that were meant for Pakistan that got embargoed became aggressors for the USAF and USN. I remember reading about it in Aviation Leak and Spy Technology. F-16.net seems to have an in-depth account of the decades-long drama with PAF F-16's. http://www.f-16.net/f-16_users_article14.html

They also rigged them with the ATLIS targeting pod. Reading the article further, I see that PAF F-16's saw combat between Soviet and Afghan Air Force aircraft during the Soviet Afghan War, to include some Su-22 and MiG-23 action.

WildBill3/75 Wrote:You peeked my interest, what do you do for a living where you shoot rifles as a 9-5? I think that is everyones dream job as long as it can pay the bills.

LRRPF52 Wrote:I used to do accuracy-testing for DTA back in 2009 in between trips overseas. It is nice to be able to burn Lapua boxed .338 LM all day on someone else's dime.

WildBill3/75 Wrote:I never said this platform was not accurate. The stock barrels from what I have seen are well under 1moa.

SAC, Short Action Customs also makes barrels for the DTA, which are stupidly expensive because of the proprietary DTA barrel extensions.

Being from California, you must truly be smoking some "good stuff." Or just rolling in more money than you know what to do with because if you get a custom kreiger, bartlin, brux, rock, etc spun up with the proprietary barrel extension you are in the thousand dollar region just for the barrel....That isnt even including the price of the chassis and bolt. Once its all said and done that would put you in the price region of a AI AW or a badass custom, shit that even puts you in the region of the price of a tac ops custom rifle or any of the other well known high priced customs.

Then your still stuck with crappy ergonomics, tons of cheap plastic, bullpup trigger....and so on.

You are sipping on some "kool aid" that I want no part of.

LRRPF52 Wrote:I used to do accuracy-testing for DTA back in 2009 in between trips overseas. It is nice to be able to burn Lapua boxed .338 LM all day on someone else's dime.
For military use, my whole perspective on the gun was that it takes up way less room in vehicles and for dismounts, so it really sells itself in that regard.

Light-skinned vehicles are extremely limited in stores capacity, so long guns like the legacy bolt guns in even a soft case present load issues for working from the trucks and ATV's, while the SRS and German DRS-1 that inspired it present a shorter profile.

I personally am a gas gun guy to a fault, even for my long sticks, which is why I like the .260 Remington AR10 combo so much. I carried and used the M24, which I think was a mistake from inception, but SF had tried everything with accurizing the M21 with the M25 program, but it's just too much to ask for logistically to keep the M21 running and consistent. It was such that you had a hard time even getting guys to qualify in a formal sniper course, so the easy answer was a bolt gun, which is fine for laying in the prone on a flat range, but sucks bigtime humping as a dismount, especially when you need to defend yourself.

If only the SR-25 had been developed 3 years earlier, I think we would have been much better off. SF, Squeals, and JSOC were the first military customers of the SR-25 in the early 1990's, and it has taken decades for big Army and Marines to come around on the gun we should have had in the 1950's, but Army small arms development and procurement....sigh.

LRRPF52 Wrote:This thing will have optics on it as a primary aiming means.

LRRPF52 Wrote:I thought it had a forward ejection system, but it looks like a spent case is ejecting normally on the picture where it is being fired.

LRRPF52 Wrote:I thought it had a forward ejection system, but it looks like a spent case is ejecting normally on the picture where it is being fired. Sights have to be tall enough for a sight picture off a cheek weld, but they are back-up sights anyway.

This thing will have optics on it as a primary aiming means.

babue Wrote:If there are going to be 5 caliber conversions that fit the action size there should be room for a Grendel unless they go 6.8 SPC. How about 5.56 - 300 Blackout - 7.62x39 - 6.5 Grendel and 6.8 SPC.
What else might they possibly chose??

stanc Wrote:I think those are the five most likely options. Or maybe substitute 5.45x39 for .300 Blackout?

m796rider Wrote:The photo shows a .308-sized magazine, so most likely .308, .260. 6.5 Creedmoor, etc, will be in the caliber mix. There has also been talk of a 10.5" version and a 30 round magazine, so DT may have something like the Colt 901 that allows 5.56-sized mags to work as well.

m796rider Wrote:The photo shows a .308-sized magazine, so most likely .308, .260. 6.5 Creedmoor, etc, will be in the caliber mix. There has also been talk of a 10.5" version and a 30 round magazine, so DT may have something like the Colt 901 that allows 5.56-sized mags to work as well.