Editing Delta Archery (section)

=== Development during 1998 ===

At the June 1998 [[NPPL]] tournament in Chicago, [[WARPIG]] reported that Long was testing what was described as the final prototype of the Delta Defiant.

The revised design incorporated an internal pneumatic ram and a vertical connecting pin between the bolt and hammer.

WARPIG documented an operating pressure of approximately 160 psi and described the internal valve system as using a spiral gas-flow arrangement intended to reduce turbulence.[8]

Long expected production markers to become available later that year.

However, the original mechanical Defiant design did not enter commercial production.

VintageRex records that the project was abandoned in favour of a modified [[Indian Creek Designs Bushmaster 2000]] platform.[7]