Desert Tech A1 vs A2

[Dogtown]

Factory barrels are Lothar-Walther and very well made. Generally, if there's a factory barrel available to your desired specs, get it. Otherwise, get a custom barrel from any number of folks. Some of the more popular ones:

• ES Tactical
• Short Action Customs
• TS Customs
• Special Purpose Rifles

It's been my experience that during the crunch of the last couple of years, having spare barrel extensions means you're more likely to get a barrel spun up faster. A lot of folks who make SRS barrels aren't as backlogged waiting on barrel blanks; they're waiting on extensions. So if you can, try to source a couple extra extensions and keep them handy for situations like this.

 

[deersniper]

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Fellas ..... a Hide member responded to my WTB request for a lefty DT A1. Getting a beautiful rifle from a solid dude. Now I'm looking at barrels.

I can still get some factory barrels from DT, and I understand they are very good (Bartlein?), or I can also get the folks at Special Purpose Rifles to whip me up some Proof barrels for it. I would like to shave weight, but not at the expense of barrel quality/accuracy.

Thoughts on factory DT barrels vs. custom Proof barrels .... ?

Factory barrels are aweome. Think they are lothar Walther

For aftermarket sac and ts customs both make awesome barrels.

 

[ChidJ]

As an addendum to what @Dogtown said, sometimes even if you have extensions and proper blanks in hand, there is a long queue to get on the lathe so unless you've got time on your side, pick up a factory barrel or two that you find in stock somewhere

 

[DDGKunia]

Just an FYI euro optic has an end of life section and there are several A1 lefty kits for cheap.

 

[wade2big]

I read about the Orkan mod in this thread. For anyone that has done it, is it a substantial difference. My trigger has quite a bit of creep and the creep adjustment screw is as far in as the safety will allow. It’s serviceable but if it can be improbed then I’m all for it.

 

[wade2big]

Never mind. I adjusted the creep screw until the trigger dropped and backed it off 1/8 round. The safety doesn’t work now but the trigger is excellent. I just need to get in there with a file when I get time and fix that. This mod is a no brainer.

 

[ChadL]

It makes the trigger sooooo good. Just go slow with the file so you don't remove to much material.

 

[wade2big]

It makes the trigger sooooo good. Just go slow with the file so you don't remove to much material.

I got it done. Didn’t take but about 15 minutes. It’a a necessity as far as I’m concerned.

 

[jtb33]

Are the SRS A2 conversion kits (barrel, bolt and mag) compatible with the SRS A1 chassis?

 

[Dogtown]

Yes. The only limitation is that Gen 1 barrels will not fit Gen 2 / A1 / A2 / M2 chassis because it uses a different indexing geometry on the barrel extension.