Duke's saw chain

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I ordered 2 25 foot rolls of 3/8 .050 a few weeks ago, one in regular and one in skip for a couple builds I was finishing up. The first thing I noticed is the grind on the chisels, they looked pretty good from all angles. No extra slop in the rivets, small channels in the drivers to help hold oil. Second thing I noticed was how easy the rivets are to punch out compared to stihl/laser/stens titanium. The crimping and spinning of the master links took 2 extra steps to get them crimped down and spun where the slack was removed. Today I spun up a 91 driver full comp chain for my ms460's 28" bar. Then I went out and ran it for 2 hours cutting up some large hickory and oak piled up from the storms last month. I needed to tighten the chain a total of 5 times, sharpened it with 2-3 strokes per chisel at the refill and only 3 depth teeth needed a hair removed telling me they are a hair low off the roll. For the price its a good deal to get 25 feet of chain for 65 bucks to throw on saws your looking to sell or toss on as a freebie for a important deal or completed repair. One of my rolls was 130 drivers short and came with a 25 pack of master links so I assume it was a cut down 100 foot roll. I notified them through their messenger thing on their website so they could look into having a possible issue, they thanked me and asked how to make it right. They sent me a 114 driver loop a couple days later, thats all I needed to combine with the chain I had still to finish making the needed loops from that roll. I will do business with them again in the future after this experience, the chain needs further use to see if the stretching stops or if it will be a issue requiring a link removed then using these chains for dirty jobs on worn bars. I think the chisels are a hair on the soft side but totally acceptable at this price point. The chrome coating on the top plate showed no issues but the back of the cutters are left ragged not square from the chroming (i think) but thats moot being just aesthetics. I look forward to them hopefully offering rolls of .325 .063 in the future to try out and possibly some semi chisel versions.