The Quattro-15
One of the newest products from Desert Tech, innovating America’s favorite rifle. The Quattro 15 is an AR Lower receiver that allows the use of our 53 round quad-stack magazines.
Restocking the freezer with the SRS A2
Every so often we get an opportunity to partner up with other folks from the industry to do something fun, and today was one of those days. Iain Harrison of Recoil Magazine joined us for a cow elk hunt this fall, and as you might imagine, we brought along the hardware. The SRS A2 was … Read more
A First Deer Story: Deer hunting with the Desert Tech SRS A2 Covert 6.5 Creedmoor
A good hunting story is hard to pass up, and todays is one of those. One of our own employees went on his very first deer hunt this month, and brought a camera along to share his experience. Nick was shooting his personal SRS A2 Covert with the eighteen-inch 6.5 Creedmoor conversion kit. Watch the … Read more
Is .223 Wylde Better Than 5.56 and .223 Rem?
The .223 Wylde chamber is one of those epitomes of the concept of “happy” medium when it comes to shooting. It was born out of a need to balance engineering for accuracy and pressure. The dimensions of a firearm’s chamber, even with the exact same case dimensions, greatly affect how a gun will shoot. The … Read more
Part of a Team, careers at Desert Tech
If you are looking for a job, Desert Tech is always looking for good people to join our team
Optics: First Focal Plane vs Second Focal Plane
A discussion on the difference between first focal plane scopes and second focal plane scopes.
First Round Pop – Why The First Shot Is The Loudest Using A Suppressor
What is first round pop? and is it something you should be worried about?
Monopods: How To Use Them and Rear Support
Perhaps some of the most important lessons you can learn in precision rifle shooting are about positioning and supporting your rifle. After all, with a rifle like the Desert Tech SRS A2 you need little more than support the rifle in the correct position and your nearly guaranteed a hit right? All joking aside, there … Read more
Shooting with Field Optics Research Tripods
Tripods for marksmen have become extremely popular over the last decade, they have become nearly as common as rear support bags and other gear. There are many great options on the market currently but today I am writing specifically about Field Optics Research tripods. We have used and tried many, and we settled on this … Read more
Short Barrels and Long range?
Short Barrels and Long range? When we set out to make the most compact precision rifles in the world, the bullpup design was part of making the overall package shorter. The Covert model of the SRS made an already short precision rifle into a ridiculously shorter rifle on par with some SBR’s. The popularity of … Read more
First Impression: Desert Tech’s TRASOL Ballistic App
First Impression: Desert Tech’s TRASOL Ballistic App I am a big believer in ballistics applications. In 2019, at the US National Matches at Camp Perry, Ohio, I spent the better part of an hour taking wind readings with my Kestrel windmeter containing Applied Ballistics software. I watched a brisk wind condition oscillating between three and … Read more
When a 10th isn’t a 10th
When a 10th isn’t a 10th Almost everything we do with a precision rifle involves a rifle-scope, whether it is target identification or adjusting for come ups and such. We have become so dependent on them that the idea of using iron sights on a precision rifle seems almost foreign or backwards. Not that there’s … Read more
What conversion kit is best for hunting?
What conversion kit is best for hunting? We are only a few months away from the 2021 hunting season opener, and the way people have been buying guns over the last year I’d be willing to bet there are some new Desert Tech rifle owners that are planning on taking their new SRS or MDRX … Read more
Dope cards and drop tables – How to generate and read them:
Dope cards and drop tables – How to generate and read them. What are dope cards and how do I read them? Don’t worry, the thought police monitoring your office computer aren’t going to flag you for researching D.O.P.E. In the world of long-range precision rifles, the term D.O.P.E. refers to Data on Previous Engagement. … Read more
Getting into Reloading
Getting into Reloading Imagine a conversation with yourself in your own head that goes something like this: Bullpup or conventional rifle….give me a break, the answer is bullpup. What caliber should I get?…wait a minute, why limit myself, I’ve got an SRS, I can have any caliber I want, whenever I want. Let’s see…accessories…bipod, suppressor, … Read more
The Ratchet Compensator
Rifles used to terrify me. To be honest, I cringe at all of the viral YouTube videos that people think are funny where someone obviously untrained is holding a rifle and they get pushed back off balance and fall or lose control of the gun. My mind immediately wanders back to a story of tragedy … Read more
QD Suppressors VS. Direct thread
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 … Read more
How does a suppressor affect the function of my MDRX
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 … Read more
Quality Optics and The Benefits
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 … Read more
Barrel Twist and Other Wizardry
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? … Read more
Staying Sharp
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 … Read more
What Cant Can Do
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 … Read more
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 … Read more