all right we got the
dd5 V3 John Hickock here going to be
taking a look at this very nice Daniel
Defense
AR10 as I said the dd5 it's the V3 so
it's the one with the 16in barrel got
the magpull 25 round magazine Jon ACU
power 1 to4 uh optic on there with the
Midwest Industries quick
release um uh Mount which everyone
always points out that I put on
backwards but hey you know it's cool
hats are cooler backwards maybe scope
mounts are too I just like feel like I
can uh I just prefer the controls being
on this side so that's why I set it up
that way all right so we're going to
take a look at this thing today sweet
rifle of course one all right here we go
so D def fence uh really nice AR R 10
it's considered to be one of the better
ones that that uh they made there's a
lot of different ones it's very
expensive you know you're looking at you
know 3,000 $3 or $4,000 for these things
um you know they're considered to be a
very strong design they're they're heavy
they're very heavy I don't know the
exact weight I didn't look that up you
know you guys can look up all those kind
of specs but just from my personal
opinion just know that it's heavy and
I'm a big guy I'm 68 it's it's a very
very heavy rifle um for what it is but
of course the D defense design here
youve got these four bolts here you know
that lock in the barrel and the uh the
handguard you know which of course is
mlock there that makes for a very uh
rigid and accurate design you know' only
got the 16-in barrel of course you're
not going to necessarily take maybe full
advantage of the uh 308 round uh but
you're still going to obviously see some
pretty good velocity velocity out of
this thing now the scope to just really
quickly you the video is not about that
but just cuz you guys are going to ask
me about it this is the acup power so
that's the it's the one that takes
batteries it does not have the um you
know the whatever the radioactive stuff
in it the tridium you know um it does
take batteries which will run out so you
can't just leave it on but the reticle
is basically just kind of your typical X
and then the um center of it lights up
red you get like a little red X and you
got these different little things here
we can dial in the different uh
brightnesses but then there's an onoff
in between each brightness setting which
is which is pretty nice cuz you know you
figure out what you like and then you
can go on and off from there so somebody
was smart when they thought of
that um what else you got of course
Ambi uh charging handle here which is
you know pretty standard a lot of these
highend rifles um something that's not
as standard
though is having the bolt release over
here on the uh right side so that is
Ambi also mag release is Ambi it came
with Ambi safety selector but I removed
it cuz I hate those um I don't like the
you as you can see there it's not much
space they dig into my hand even the
short ones you know they have the little
stubby ones you know to try to take care
of that problem but you know those have
always I don't know it it it bothers me
you know sure maybe if I got shot in the
arm and I have to transition to left
hand I'm not going to be able to operate
it or you know there's always there's a
reason for those I understand but I feel
like for my needs it's not worth the
annoyance um of it so I usually take it
off polymer dust cover I know that's
kind of controversial a lot of people
don't like that but you know as we've
been repeatedly shown over the last 20
years or so a polymer is Pretty Tough it
holds up so you know it doesn't give you
that
classic AR look of course of course but
you know I mean I would assume it's a
little bit lighter than the alloy ones
and probably more durable to be honest
so D defense you know they're a a pretty
well
respected you know maker of these of
AR-15s and type rifles so they
definitely they know what they're doing
got a nice muzzle breake on there uh
it's pretty effective you got the D
defense Preparatory
furniture that they do you know the grip
is pretty nice you got it it's not of
course one of the 90° angle ones but
it's a little bit closer to that I would
say than kind of your standard old
school like A2 grip and everything like
that um pretty nice adjustable stock I
don't love the latch I don't know why
something about the way it's designed it
always makes me want to grab it right
there and I forget you got to pull up
like
that um but it's fine I mean that's
that's nitpicky honestly and then got
the little rubber texture on there which
is pretty cool also has this little do
that up here where you can adjust the
gas
system uh to go from suppressor or you
know s for suppressor or silencer how
nerdy you want to get on the
classification uh or uh standard so I've
got it on standard of course right now
so we don't have a suppressor so check
that out let's fire it some
more all right we got some more Federal
ammo take a few shots I was shooting uh
I realized on these early shots I was
taking I was shooting
low on that that's a of course a common
problem with ARs you have to be aware of
cuz you got the higher line of sight of
course all
right again very heavy I mean it's just
I mean it's a it's a chunk of a rifle
big old heavy barrel on this thing uh
we'll take it apart and uh I'll kind of
show you the bolts and
and there's some interesting things
about that I'll show you in a minute
okay did I put one in there believe I
did feels like I
did all right let's take out this
watermelon right here up
close shot low again even know I was
Aiming
High so there's a 1 to four power Trion
scope I'm going to bring it up to two
let good A little illumination
there all
right uh 2x is a pretty good
magnification for that range I mean
we're talking about you know what was it
70 yards something like that
yeah I can't see where I'm going on that
smaller one I'm going to try the uh the
right
one the one the far
right yeah I can't see where they're
going at all let's see let me try the
big one again I'm going to zoom in
further go up to 4X see if maybe I can
tell where I'm
hitting all right let's try the far
right one
again there we go
okay it might be going
left scope could be
off yeah really hard to
tell yeah I think it is going
left all right as you see I'm already
getting tired of holding this thing up
so heavy so such a heavy rifle that's a
big disadvantage of of an AR10 in
general and especially this one this one
is an especially heavy one from the ones
I've picked
up okay I'm just going to hold on the
right yep it's going
left so I'm not going to try to get the
sight on in the video I was afraid maybe
this scope was a little bit off since
last time I fired this thing all right
um I'm going to take this apart and show
you guys the
bolt then we'll put in a brought a MAG
mag full of uh tracers right
there take out some of those watermelons
and
such all
right now I probably should have done
this before it wasn't so hot
huh yeah Bolt's not too bad
okay so this uh bolt has a special DLC
coating as they call it does that does
not stand for downloadable content you
video game nerds out there it is uh
stands for Diamond like carbon and it's
incredibly smooth it's pretty bizarre
like how how slick that is I mean it's
just unreal very slick um you've got
this little buffer here in the back that
adds weight to the bolt supposed to help
with the recoil which I guess maybe it
does but I mean this rifle is so heavy
it's never something I would expect to
recoil very much you have a especially I
mean 308 it's powerful but it's not
anything crazy um you got this captured
um retainer pin for the uh firing pin
which some people like but it's kind of
annoying to me cuz it wants to it's not
doing it as much I guess now cuz it's
dirty but it kind of wants to fall out
uh on its own when you're kind of
messing around with the bolt and then
the fire pin right just falls out like
that I don't necessarily like that I
know that
there's sometimes the reter pin can get
screwed up or whatever but such a cheap
tiny little part I mean you could have
10 of them spare and not even know you
have them you know so to me that seems
like a a fix to a non-issue but I don't
know could be wrong on that but um very
nice slick Bolt
um we got two ejectors
there just you know typical AR10 bolt
everything is jumbo
sized pretty
cool all right throw this back in
there load up this magga
tracers okay so yeah we got a MAG of
just Lake City tracers here I'm going to
start out and uh take care of these
watermelons here and then we're going to
try over on the other Hill
again all
right that back on 1X
all right see if I saved a
few okay shoot the big
plate cuz I'm having trouble hitting the
other
one okay I'm going to try the other ones
again I'm going to try the one on the
far
right yeah I was aiming on the right
side of the target to hit it
so all right hopefully that looks
cool got 25 left let's take out some of
these bowling pins here and this is such
a cool cool feature this is something I
would like to see on more ARS where you
can just look at that with the right
finger
Sandy okay
all right I'm going to try
for the uh second from the
left steel plate
there okay I'm going to try the little
bitty one
this is a heavy
rifle did you get it maybe it's swinging
I might have just hit the post I'm going
to try the slightly bigger one on that
same little
set let's go to the far
right yeah it's amazing how well it
shoots when you put your sight in the
right
spot okay big
Target all
right he that's a good workout that's
one thing for me at least uh that's one
thing that not everyone it's important
to think about with an AR10 of course
it's awesome to have an an AR AR15 M16
chambered in 308 everyone knows that was
of course the original caliber that it
was chambered in the AR10 that's why
it's AR10 the AR15 um but it's just a a
heavier gun you know you got there's so
much more Steel in this thing um
you know than you do in in the standard
5.56 AR so it's it's a big trade-off I
mean obviously you got the benefit of
the of the bigger round but much heavier
gun and then of course packing the ammo
is a lot a lot heavier it's nice having
you know these 25 round mags are great
so you're not really sacrificing a whole
lot capacity wise 25 versus 30 um but
you are sacrificing a lot on weight um
but still very cool rifle it does I
think what it's supposed to do uh well
especially when the scope is sided in
that's always good make sure you do that
especially before uh doing a video in
front of a bunch of people it's probably
important U but you know there we go the
D defense dd5 B3 hope you guys enjoyed
that see you next
time oh yeah that's better this is a
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