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Squat Squad — we are finally starting to see some really cool, innovative stuff. I am at NRA, at the Dark Storm Industries booth, and this is the DS-25 MFR.
We already did videos and content on the MFR AR-15. Now they applied that treatment — and more — to the DS-25. The rifle on the table in this short is 6.5 Creedmoor, built specifically for a couple of professional doorknocker contracts. Title on the video is “AR FIXED.” I am not going to invent the engineering lecture in a fifty-second booth clip.
This is a booth tease, not a range report
Fifty seconds. NRA floor. I did not shoot this sample on camera. I did not list barrel length, weight, or a price, because I did not say those numbers. If you want the two things I got stupid excited about on the rifle, that is the detailed video — it should be out very soon, or linked above when it is.
What the short actually gives you:
- Same company, bigger application. The MFR treatment you already saw on their AR-15 is now on the DS-25, plus more. Prior channel pass on the 15-side MFR: Is the DSI MFR the End of Expensive Rifles?
- This display gun is 6.5 Creedmoor. That is the chambering I called out on the floor.
- Contract gun, not a catalog daydream. Built for a couple of professional doorknocker contracts. That is why it is on the table looking like a serious rifle instead of a SHOT Show mock-up.
- Two key innovative things I pointed the camera at and then refused to spoil. Watch the detailed video for those. I am not filling the gap with brochure copy.
Where this sits next to the Thunderbolt
DSI is the same shop that sent the bolt-action Thunderbolt for T&E. Different rifle, same house. If you want the long-form take on that one, it is already up: The Truth About the DSI Thunderbolt.
This short is the semi-auto DS-25 MFR on the NRA carpet. Do not mash the two guns together. One is a bolt AR. This one is the fighting-rifle side of the booth, and the only specs I am standing behind are the ones I said out loud.
We do not have a DSI store link. I am not inventing one. For the bags, ARCA junk, and range bits we actually run around rifles like this: SlavGuns Amazon storefront. Anarchy-manufactured parts when the gun is in that ecosystem: Anarchy Outdoors, code SlavGuns on Anarchy-made only.
Bottom line
DS-25 MFR, 6.5 Creedmoor, MFR treatment from the AR-15 applied and then some, sitting at the DSI booth at NRA. “AR FIXED” is the title because that is the story they are telling with this rifle. The two details I got excited about are in the longer video, not in this short, and not in this article.
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Keep squatting. I’ll see you at the next booth.
Are you here for a 6.5 Creedmoor DS-25 that got the MFR treatment, or are you waiting for the detailed video before you care?
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