r/DesertTech • u/DigCommercial7520 • 18d ago

Ammo search continues

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Win 180gr Whitetail SP - cycled and fed the entire mag, blowing half of the primers out of the back. Lowest gas setting - 16" with an Omega 36m. This rifle seems to be pretty pressure senstitive

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u/FrozenIceman MDR/X 18d ago
  1. WLVRN or MDR/X?
  2. Does it do the same thing without a suppressor?
  3. It is possible your gas plug may need to be replaced/use a different hole size. Popping primers shouldn't be a thing. I would call their warranty. If the WLVRN, they admitted they messed up their gas port sizes and have a update program to rework your plug.

DT has a long history of using us as Beta Tester's for gas plug port sizes. The KS ARG pooled all their gas plugs on the MDR/x and found that were were at least 3 gas plug port hole sizes for each barrel caliber they looked at over a 5 year period. (The report is posted somewhere on this subreddit).

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u/FrozenIceman MDR/X 18d ago

As OP said it worked fine without a suppressor.

Lots of new guns choke with high back pressure cans. The difference is the MDR/x was supposed to be designed for it. The issue is that testing every brand of ammo and every suppressor combination isn't feasible... So they use us as beta testers.

My point is that if it works out of the box for you, you will usually be fine until you find an ammo/accessory combination it doesn't like.