Gentlemen. surely the correct procedure for a claim under warranty due to failure of any item is to contact the distributor and manufacturer directly.? rather than have a moan on the forums?
It find it strange then, that no one has contacted us about the above stated problems and I would hasten to add that we would be very interested in fully investigating any failures with our Delta Moderators. We stand 100% behind our moderators and would appreciate any feed back, be it positive or negative. I'd hasten to add that moderators sold by Sportsman in the UK are subjected to the UK Proof as a matter of course.
Through several thousand produced moderators to date we have not had a single failure that wasn't tracable down to user error. I know of one case of failure that is on its way back to us via Sportsman and i strongly suspect the cause will come down to operator error but can't pass comment until we recieve it.
The usual cause of catastrophic bafflestack separation is bullet strike, this comes down to 1 of 3 things,
1. either the moderator used was of a smaller caliber bore than the projectile
2. the barrel threading bieng off causing projectile strike ( this would have usualy been noticed after a few shots due to erratic accuracy)
3. moderator not tightened correctly to barrel thread shooting loose during firing thus allowing the bore of the moderator to go out of line with the axis of the rifle bore causing projectile strike.
I know of a small number of moderators that have failed proof ( under qty 8 ) due to bullet strike or separation, which i however do strongly suspect is down to the proof house not having tightened the moderator onto thier proof rifle, or having fired a too large projectile through a smaller caliber moderator bore.
If anyone has any issues, feedback or requires and information on our moderators please feel free to contact me directly on
info@roedale.de
thankyou and best regards Pete