Good to see Desert Tech finally got around to fixing a lot of their initial teething problems, ramping up production, and offering the 6.5 Creedmoor option. Their 20" barrel looks pretty darned nice, and there are a few youtube video's out there that show some real promise. This will never be the 0.5 MOA gun (I don't think at least), but for what it is, if it can be a 1 MOA, or even a 1.25 or so MOA gun, that's actually still quite interesting to me. It looks like it is (?). Curious if anyone here has one and has played with it any?
They aren't cheap; but in some ways, they aren't that expensive either. A Steyr AUG in 5.56 runs about $2K, which is about what the MDRx is going for; and in 6.5 CM. Or at least seems to be kind of close. Tavor's are priced comparable as well. And I get the feeling the MDRx sort of beats the TAVOR7 in every category (yes?).
One item in particular, is when playing with an HBAR 6.5 CM AR10, I find shooting such a rifle off-hand to just be downright hard. The thing is so heavy, doing snap-field shooting is tough. The MDRx is not much lighter (9lb w/out optics, in the 6.5 CM version), but as a guy who's shot an AUG a lot, I find the bullpup weight balance is such that you can be pretty comfortable shooting off-hand, even when it's heavy. So I'm hopeful the same on this gun too? From the youtube videos again, I'm seeing people appearing to be able to run and gun with it pretty well, which is encouraging to see.
I will say, I wish someone would do a 6.5 Grendel in bullpup, as to me THAT would be seriously cool kit, especially if they kept it light. But 6.5 CM in bullpup semi-auto is very interesting to me.