The Diamondback DB15 rifle line is available in a number of different models, including a Diamond Series that features a lower receiver designed by Diamondback itself. The lower receiver designed by Diamondback itself. The Diamond series DB15 is Diamondbacks premium series, including upgraded triggers, furniture, nice hard cases, and included sights. The Diamondback DB15 Diamond Series is quite the reliable purchase — especially in terms of getting started. Daniel Defense has been a quality manufacturer of AR-type rifles for some time now, and the Honey Badger is not the first of their rifles in the.300 BLK.
The beauty of the.300 BLK is the fact you can have a gun that is about the size of a Sig MMG, but has a suppressor to give it a shotgun-like performance. The best advantage the.300 BLK has is the ability to run a suppressor with a shorter barrel — both are excellent choices for home defense. The 5.56mm NATO is halved the price of 300 BLK, and comes in higher-end loads suitable for precision rifle shooting. Since.300 BLK is derived from a 5.56 chambering, all you need to do to change the caliber is swap out your barrel.
At the end of the 7-inch barrel, we get the canister to redirect blasts, as well as the threaded barrel for securing suppressors that are desired for such a diminutive.300 BLK platform. The chart above shows what barrels are designed for these rounds…20 inches for the 5.56mm NATO, 9 inches for the.300 BLK, and a more civilian-friendly length for the 16-inch barrel. The PDXs super-short design gives you what is probably the smallest factory-issued.300 BLK rifle.
I want to point out one thing before we rush off to buy new uppers for the.300 BLK…you need to take care in switching uppers, or even if you own a dedicated.300 BLK rifle as well as a 5.56 rifle. I doubt that a lot of civilian shooters have to worry about that, but that is the rifle I might go on a patrol with.
On a variable-stock rifle such as the Diamondback, it means that you can tune your stocks down to be less tight without squeezing the hand. The widener is ideal for someone used to a rifle with rock-and-lock action, such as the AK, and even proved helpful in our precision tests, since it allowed easy 30-round magazine inserts when shooting off-hand. We shot various rounds from 35gr to 77gr, and the medium-length gas system cycled all of them.
First, folks should know what they are getting for $1,000, and second, because this rifle is reliably dull as hell, and as accurate as the Diamondback I reviewed four years ago. The used cost of DIAMONDBACK rifles has increased $162.84 dollars in the last 12 months, up to $714.15. Before their AR-10 overhaul, and ever since, Diamondback has been producing very good-value rifles for very fair prices. Fortunately, in spite of that, we are working to make this a much better website for law abiding Americans, and much worse one for non-law abiding Americans.
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