To the subject of bashing DT, it’s a little harder to bash them when barrels are cut to their specs. A1 and prior generation chassis would let customers and smiths get away with barrels that were oversized by a couple thousandths. Tolerances were tightened up on the A2/M2 chassis and people cannot get away with that any longer.
Seconsofangle2 was the first and only customer we’ve had that has reported their scope rail coming loose. I am glad he posted about it and let me know personally. My rep said it was the first one he had heard of as well. I’ve seen plenty of scope rails come loose on custom actions. Not sure why it didn’t cross my mind to loctite the rail on the SRS A2 and M2, but anyone with a current production A2 or M2, may want to use a dab of loctite on their scope rail screws. I have suggested this to DT as well.
It looks like there was a batch of reworked bolts that made their way to Australia. Of the dozens of conversion kits and bolt assemblies come through our shop, we had one bolt head with some rework marks. The marks are clean and minimal, but we will swap it out with DT.
I know this thread recently has scared off some potential DT SRS buyers and given others reason to pause and evaluate their purchase. I certainly don’t blame them. DT doesn‘t do themselves any favors with some of the stupid QC issues that occasionally make it through (I.e. like the recent reworked SRS bolt heads that made it to Australia). Mistakes like that have cost them numerous dealers and who knows how many customers. We’ve stayed with them, because I personally love the SRS and HTI platforms. At my shop we are very familiar with them and over the years have seen very few QC issues in those platforms.
My .02 is you’d be hard pressed to find a multi caliber platform (.223 to .338 LM) with the performance of the SRS for less $, bullpup or not. The SRS and HTI are solid platforms. Accuracy is outstanding in them. Return to zero when swapping kits is the best of any platform I have used.
My recommendation to those thinking of buying would be to buy one from a dealer that is familiar with the platform and who will help you should their ever need warranty service.
At our shop, we go through the rifles, chassis, and conversion kits to double check them for any issues we’ve seen in the past before they go out the door from our shop. We may start applying loctite to the scope rail screws to prevent our customers from having an experience like Secondofangle2 experienced. We are 15 minutes from DT’s facility and are picking stuff up or having our rep bring orders by on a weekly basis. We keep dozens of bolt assemblies, magazines, barrel extensions in stock, along with hand guards, stock panels, torque wrenches, soft cases, cleaning kits and other DT related products. We have at least one of every conversion kit DT makes for the SRS or HTI in stock, and multiples of the more popular kits. We have every color SRS and HTI chassis in stock. We have about 50 finished proof SRS barrels on the shelf and another 120 plus SRS barrel blanks in stock.