Upgraded Desert Tech WLVRN: Lighter & More Accurate, Plus a New Sabertooth Handguard [Video]
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Desert Tech’s NEW WLVRN rifle is lighter and more accurate than the MDRX, plus a new Aluminum Handguard option.
Nick shares details about two new products from Desert Tech that were shown at SHOT Show 2025. These are the improved Desert Tech WLVRN Rifle and the Sabertooth handguard.
Upgraded Desert Tech WLVRN Rifle
The Desert Tech WLVRN platform is a semi-automatic bullpup platform, and it is the latest generation of Desert Tech MDR X platform. The MRX is no longer available, the WLVRN has taken its place. Although the WLVRN rifle might look a lot like the MDR X, there are a lot of differences on the inside.
Although the exterior looks the same, inside the gun there have been many changes. Several changes have been made to the integral parts of the rifle or the receiver to simplify the entire rifle. Make it a little bit more reliable and a little bit more lightweight. We reduced the parts count on this rifle about 40%. As a result, it’s now lighter, more reliable and more accurate.
The WLVRN is a multi-caliber platform, so this right here is set up with an 11 ½-inch 223 barrel. This will also shoot 300 blackout, 308, and 6.5 Creedmoor with barrels ranging from 11-1/2 inches all the way up to 20 inches. We have your Shorty Micron length of 11-½, a standard 16, and then a DMR 20-inch rifle: all running the same chassis.
Ambidextrous
Much like most of our rifles the WLVRN is ambidextrous. Currently, the ejection chute is on the right side, but it’s very simple to swap this from right to left-handed ejection. So, for those lefties out there who don’t want brass kicking them in the cheek, you can just swap the cover to the other side, manipulate the bolt 180°, and you have a left-hand ejecting rifle.
All the controls are ambidextrous from your charging handle. We have an AR-Style magazine release at the front. In the back, we have a strip and retain, which is more like a traditional bullpup magazine release. The bolt release is just to the rear of that magazine. So, this is our shorty configuration for the WLVRN, and we also have a 16-inch version and then a DMR-20 inch version.
Desert Tech WLVRN Comparison Table
New for 2025 – The Sabertooth Handguard Assembly 16″ & 11.5″
New for this year we launched a new hand guard for our fully automatic variation of the WLVRN which is called the Sabertooth.
One of the complaints that Desert Tech received with the WLVRN handguard is that it’s polymer, so it doesn’t really maintain 0 if you’re mounting sites on the front of the handguard. With the new Sabertooth we added this clamping mechanism that clamps to the receiver to ensure a very rigid connection to that receiver and make sure that it stays straight and maintains the zero.
The new Sabertooth handguard will now be available for the WLVRN and also for the earlier generation MDRX and MDR rifles in the 11 1/2 inch length as well as the 16-inch length as featured in the video above.
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