The R7S Is Coming And It’s Looking For A Little Payback
UPDATE: THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN CANCELED AS OF AUGUST 2017.
See article for announcement: https://blog.deserttech.com/the-desert-tech-r7-chassis/
Merle “Mike” Walker is watching.
And if you’re part of the Desert Tech team tasked with designing and building a drop-in chassis for the most popular high-powered, bolt-action rifle of all time, then the legend will continue to hover over your shoulder for the next three to six months until the remix of the old classic is released to the general pubic.
You see, Mr. Walker invented the Remington Model 700 back in 1962 and it went on to sell more than 5 million units in more than 900 variations. He built it better and cheaper to dominate a market rising from the ashes of World War II. It was pinpoint accuracy at a blue collar price, engineered so well that it became the United States Army’s official sniper rifle in 1966 and priced so perfectly that stores could not keep them on the shelves for the next five decades.
And before he died last year at the age of 101, Merle saw his venerable design re-clad in picatinny rails and a folding stock to go along with new chambering for the .300 Win Mag. The US Army promptly converted their entire precision rifle arsenal as the general public clamored for one to call their own.
The first non-military XM2010 emerged a couple years ago, complete with shiny glass, nifty suppressor, bipod, two cases and a whopping $18,000 price tag that would have knocked old Merle right off of his well-worn bench rest.
It wasn’t long until Desert Tech President Nick Young decided to do something about it. After all, he was the mastermind behind the whole SRS phenomenon that finally solved the bullpup trigger and then made the revolutionary precision rifle even more compact with the Covert model. But before Nick sets the gun world on fire for a second time in a row with his Micro Dynamic Rifle (MDR set to release late 2015), he wanted to give the Model 700 back to the people.
Nick wanted to minimize the weight and size and enhance the ergonomics, keeping the tactical form and function without the Pentagon price. He refined the length of pull, added a monopod and cheek piece and smiled. He only did what he thought Merle Walker would have done at this point.
Lo and behold, the R7S drop-in chassis for the Remington Model 700 was sneak peeked at the 2014 SHOT show and is being spit-shinned in R&D as we speak for availability to gun lovers at-large in 3 to 6 months. We’ll get you more details soon about this latest offering from the Desert Tech team of firearm-making prodigies.
And wait’ll you see the MSRP.
We think Merle will be proud.
