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DPMS was very much known for accuracy.I had two of them with never a problem function wise.

You guys are remembering a very different dpms than I am.

I was thinking the same thing...DPMS seemed to find its stride, somewhat, in the 308 realm, but their standard fare was pretty lackluster, overall.

You guys are remembering a very different dpms than I am.

Full disclosure, I quit looking at anything dpms years ago after having issues with their guns and parts. I've never looked at their gen 2 308's but jimmyp here had one that was so good, dpms refunded him his full purchase price after trying to fix it. Maybe they finally figured things out?

If you want an accurate 308, get an Armalite AR-10T and start shooting groups instead of 3 shots.

bushmaster did have the better name. but I think their guns were used in some high profile crimes which maybe is why they didn't promote them more. dpms had the gen 2 they never did promote very well.

You guys are remembering a very different dpms than I am.

Dpms and Bushmaster both swallowed by Remington and buried by Cerebus who is /was headed by some marriage connection of jo biden. You figure it out for yourself looked completely planned to me.

[So let's follow the logic. Cerberus spent hundreds of millions of dollars SPECIFICALLY to run the business into the ground? Yeah, that makes total sense.

With 168gr Nosler ammo, my DPMS GII Hunter in .308 is the most accurate semiauto I ever have shot.

The American Rifleman reviewer agrees, albeit with Black Hills ammo:
https://www.americanrifleman.org/articles/2020/2/6/review-dpms-gii-ar-308 (“The GII Hunter I tested blew me away with its accuracy. I was primarily testing that rifle for our sister publication American Hunter and didn't even plan to include it in this article, but the performance is too impressive to ignore. American Hunter uses three, three-shots groups with three different loads as a test protocol. With the Black Hills 168-gr. load, the first group measured 0.30". That was the best, but the average of three groups was 0.47". The average for all nine groups was 0.80". From an out-of-the-box AR-L shooting factory ammunition, that is very impressive accuracy.”).

That article also explains the cleverness and innovativeness of their redesign of the AR10 to make it better and about a pound lighter.

We can only recite our own experiences. My DPMS LR308 is as and, more accurate than most .308 bolt rifles I have used over the years. It works very well with Varget for the lights and 760 for the heavies. No feed or function issues.

I remember "that" DMPS. Back then they were using their whole name, Defense Procurement Military Services. With a name like that, you had a high likelihood of mil-spec parts right? ...WRONG. I got a crash course in civilian AR parts during the first panic under Clinton and I got introduced to what a cast lower receiver looked like courtesy of DPMS. Not long later as manufacturers jumped onto the free float tube bandwagon, DPMS was notable for using thin walled tubing on their "under the handguard: tubes. Fine if you're shooting off the bench, but not fine for their intended purpose of Service Rifle competition where the tube bears high amounts of pull under sling tension. I'm sure they've evolved since then...but those two experiences were telling for me of the DPMS quality mindset.

Knowing only a little about ARs, the two DPMS rifles that I shot were very accurate. Both had bull barrels and the ones we took prairie dog shooting were VERY accurate, making shots to 500 yards.