I have an MDR, got it from a 4 year old pre order list I put my name on at SHOT

before the issues were widely known

it mostly works

So, how does yours run? lol

so, I have been able to run about 8 different brands of ammo through it

I'm disappointed that they failed

it actually ran silver bear

it consistently tore the rims off of Hirtenberger

Federal XM80C wouldnt go out the ejection chute, a la garand thumb

IMO the MDR suffers from both design and execution issues

It’s a shame.

I know what the issue with it is

an it is a simple fix for them

Add less complexity?

I want the MDR so I can use it as a baseball bat

the issue is dwell time

it damages the rims of most cases

it is attempting to extract too early

so, they can either change their gas port location

or design a longer, hollow gas plug for more expansion

I bet they were aiming for a certain bolt velocity to get the silly case ejectors to work properly

this is why their 3-6 position gas plug solution didnt fix it

And thus sacrificed overall function

probably

they need to re profile their ejection chute

But I think you’re right about it being a dwell time issue

you really have to rack it hard to get live rounds into it

It’s just impressive how badly it has failed

it's so close

(Or appears to be failing)

There has to be a ton of R&D money into the thing

mine runs reliably right now, thankfully

Plus tooling up

yea, they spent years on it even after the initial announcement

I can understand the odd QA issue. I dealt with that on my Hudson H9

But with this much dev time with an established company, it’s very disappointing

I don't think the current CEO is serious about fixing the issues

he's been very unprofessional on the bullpup forum trashing reviewers and other rifles

Everyone is serious about fixing issues when asked.

Also, bullpup forums was a shit show when I was there in the past

lol