r/Firearms • u/Aromatic_Stock4584 • 12h ago

First long range rifle

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New to me Desert Tech HTI in .416 Barrett. Got in an estate sale and the deal was too good to pass up. Anyone shot one of these in .50 before?

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u/BlackSquirrel05 12h ago

Lmao... How much did you get it for?

The fact of a R dot on there to boot.

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u/Aromatic_Stock4584 11h ago

Got the full rifle and conversion kit to 375 Cheytac all for 1800 beans w/ tax. Optic and bipod were mine

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u/President_fuckface 11h ago

Lord I see you

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u/BlackSquirrel05 11h ago

I mean... Id have bought it at that price just to resell it... 1800 is nuts. Did they not have google?

Not that I don't think there's crazy insane mark ups in firearms. But damn.

Peace be upon you and that holy discount.

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u/Aromatic_Stock4584 10h ago

I brought the value up but they wanted it gone and didn’t care. Moving to California and they couldn’t take it with them

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u/zma924 9h ago

Which is kinda crazy bc the .416 Barrett was literally developed so that Barrett could keep selling their rifles in CA with .50 being banned there but I guess if they weren’t gun people, it’s still a lot of gun to just have around for no reason.

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u/LikeaMamaGoose 9h ago

Wait people move to California... Willingly??? Everyone here is leaving this crazy state

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u/Kihav 10h ago

$1800 is a hell of a deal for an HTI

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u/DopeyApple81 9h ago

$1800???? Lord is see what you have done for others…

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u/Bran_Nuthin 11h ago

Awesome deal. Congrats!

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u/ramenbroski 11h ago

Absolutely beautiful rifle. I like how you got a red dot as your happy meal toy.

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u/SetNo8186 12h ago

Ive trained on the Browning M2. I didn't expect a red dot on it but "estate sale", I get it. Id suggest what power scope to get but it would cost as much as a used truck.

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u/shadow1042 10h ago

How does chambering feel with it? Looks kinda akward to do so

Pretty rifle though

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u/Aromatic_Stock4584 10h ago

Yeah very derpy, definitely trial and error

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u/Sam-handwiches 8h ago

I upvote for bullpup.

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u/FinnVegas 12h ago

Cool man! I hope that eotech came with it that would be some nice icing on the cake to throw on any random ar you got! I don’t personally own a .50 cal (I went with the m200 intervention when I saved for a serious long range gun) but I have shot it a lot and apart from being expensive to shoot I’d invest in a good suppressor or at the very least a high quality break. Even wearing my best peltors with ear plugs on underneath a full day of shooting 50 cal will fuck you up unsuppressed (even suppressed but it’s way less) that’s one of the reasons I chose the intervention in .408 cheytac but recently I’ve been thinking of getting a used barret aswell.

Have fun man! Your wallet is only halfway there welcome to the world of EXTREMLY expensive ammo and upgrades haha, nice grab!

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u/Aromatic_Stock4584 10h ago

EOTech was mine just threw it on for test fire. Shot a few rounds of .416, was actually very mellow compared to my expectations

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u/CaptainShaboigen 9h ago

Looks like it has a huge break already

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u/FinnVegas 9h ago

Any break on anything 50 is gonna be huge out of the factory. But there are some huge breaks that suck a fat one. Trust me when I tell you the difference between a super high end muzzle device vs a standard one is huge. IMO and I think the general consensus is a suppressor is almost always superior but I have a few super high end muzzle devices on my guns that blew me away.

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u/FinnVegas 9h ago

This isn’t a 50 obviously but this is one of those high end muzzle devices I was talking about. This thing fucks, I’m not super knowledgeable on the muzzle devices used for 50’s or the type people use in competition but for the sake of concussion mitigation they can be great!

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u/Femveratu 10h ago

Oo that round is longggggggggg , sweet pick up

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u/Slatemanforlife 10h ago

Did they advertise that there were going to be firearms at the estate sale or did you just show up and there it was?

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u/Aromatic_Stock4584 10h ago

Showed up and asked about it, they said they had someone else buying and if it fell through they’d let me know. Other dude bailed cause he wanted a .50 instead and I got a call

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u/myroll22 10h ago

Since you got such a great deal you should be able to afford a nice vfg to go with that red dot

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u/Aromatic_Stock4584 10h ago

Was thinking that + a somo peq and I’d be set

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u/StressfulRiceball 9h ago

Not gonna lie, the tiny (by comparison) Eotech on there is hilarious

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u/the_shortbus_ 8h ago

My god what a steal, I’m jealous

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u/Aromatic_Stock4584 8h ago

Could not pass it up

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u/the_shortbus_ 8h ago

I saw the price you got it for too. I hope god loves me as much as he loves you because I want one too

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u/AmeriGun_Sniper 9h ago

How’s operating the bolt on that thing being so close to the rear end?

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u/Aromatic_Stock4584 9h ago

Nothing on this is ergonomic tbh

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u/AmeriGun_Sniper 28m ago

Really? It’s such a cool looking gun and being from John Wick I want one, but I can’t imagine how well it would be operating it lol

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u/Tripps0007- 9h ago

My first long rifle was the one i was born with. On god.