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QD Suppressors VS. Direct thread
We keep hitting on suppressors here on the Desert Tech blog, partially because we are suckers for suppressors, and also because everybody else is also joining the trend. Some trends are just trends, but the suppressor craze is one I can get behind fully. One of the big questions many…
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How does a suppressor affect the function of my MDRX
Had a friendly little chat with a local ATF field agent today, we discussed the popularity of suppressors and the huge increase in form 4’s as people buy them. Seems like just a few years ago suppressors were few and far between, but nowadays I…
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Quality Optics and The Benefits
Get the visual! What you can see matters. What you can’t see might very well be what you have been searching for all season. I have always heard that people should be willing to pay for good optics, and several people that I have met and hunted with have optics…
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Barrel Twist and Other Wizardry
Everybody knows about barrel-twist right? The most basic feature that makes a rifle a rifle is often a very overlooked subject, and one that today we will dive into a bit more. But first, are you one of the many shooters out there who is under-twisted? What is a Twist?
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Staying Sharp
Don’t lose your hard earned skills I don’t know about you, but the smell of gunpowder just creates a huge goofy grin on my face. I have to admit that I can have a crappy day shooting a match or working on live fire drills, but the fact that I had a chance…
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What Cant Can Do
Someday, we’ll have energy weapons just like in the movies. And said energy weapons will of course defy all of our common understanding when it comes to ballistics and projectiles, at least thats what the movies have taught me. But until the day that lasers and blasters like Han Solo carried…
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Finding a Local Range
Have you ever sat back and wished that you could just go shooting whenever and wherever you wanted? When I first started shooting and learning to compete in pistol and multi gun matches, I was living in in the south. I remember vividly just how difficult it was to find a range to practice. Where I…
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Hunting with a Bullpup
There is something magnificent about climbing and bushwhacking through gnarly terrain to get deep into the wild while searching for deer and elk. It is a firmly imprinted memory for me from my last successful rifle hunt, and one that I will never forget. I clearly remember the super steep watershed…
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Shooting Barricades, bags, and tripod
Today Tyler walks us through shooting from barricades in competition. He also goes over some of a shooters best tools for doing so. Products seen in this video: Cole-TAC Wiebad Short Action Precision Reasor Precision Blam Enterprises
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Best Accessories for Your Desert Tech SRS
Best Accessories for Desert Tech SRS You’ve been dwelling on this idea for years. Studied every forum and poured over all 272 pages of the Official (DTA) SRS thread on Snipers Hide. You’ve even read Larson Miller’s definitive guide to bullpups on the DT blog. And after cashing in your stimulus…
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More Guns? Or Multi-Caliber Guns?
We can all agree that firearms are as addicting as any hobby, the only part we might argue with is how long it takes for the newness to wear off from our latest toy. And as soon as it does, we find ourselves again seeking to justify reasons for another.
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Recoil Management for PRS Shooting with the SRS
Tyler Frehner of the National Rifle League walks us through recoil management, as part of how to shoot precision rifle competition.





