Left and right views of the trigger the three allen screws after the white “S” and the one above the red “F” lock the barrel into place: a few quick turns of a torque wrench and the barrel can be slipped out and the rifle’s caliber changed


enthusiastic American following). Secondly, they have made the gun modular - it comes as a chassis with different barrel kits (each kit consists of a specific caliber barrel, the appropriate bolt and magazine).


One chassis and scope will mix and match with a cabinet of different caliber barrel kits (current options are .243 Win, .308 Win, .300 Win and .338 LM with 6.5x47, .260 Rem and 7mm on their way next year). The indexing of the barrel means the gun reportedly maintains zero on the same barrel (obviously, different calibers have different zeros). The gun is financially ‘in range’


but not cheap, with the chassis weighing in at around £3200 and a barrel kit costing £1500. But reflect on this: if you have two custom-built rifles with a high end scope on each you will already have spent more than one SRS chassis, one top-drawer scope and two barrel kits.


I spoke to DTA’s CEO, Nick Young, a long-time long-range shooting fanatic. Nick embarked on the project that ended up with him founding DTA when he was asked what the ideal sniper rifle was – he replied it hadn’t been built yet and shortly afterwards paired up with an engineer to figure out how to build it. It took them a while to


The .308/.243 single stack magazine showing the internal partition


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