Blog
Field-tested guides, reviews and stories from the people who build Desert Tech rifles.
- Guides
Optics: First Focal Plane vs Second Focal Plane
A discussion on the difference between first focal plane scopes and second focal plane scopes.
- Guides
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?
- Guides
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…
- Guides
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…
- Guides
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…
- Reviews & media
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…
- Guides
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…
- Platforms
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…
- Guides
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.
- Guides
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…
- Platforms
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…
