It's friday and I want a suppressor.
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I used to live in a place where AK variants ad suppressors weren't legal... Good old Canada... But now I'm free! I don't have one on my Savage yet because I'm waiting for a new barrel but a decent suppressor can be had for about $300 and they go up to around $550 for a brand new top of the line. Anyone can buy one and they're definitely worth it for hunting because they give you more than just one shot before the group of animals scatters plus saves on hearing loss ha ha.
I'm going with a DPT over barrel suppressor because they have a lifetime warranty and are commonly regarded as the best of the 'budget' suppressors but it looks to me like all you get from the more expensive ones are lighter internals. The DPT brings the sound of a supersonic 308 down to a 22 magnum but subsonics hardly make any noise at all! It'll cost me about $375 installed but with the amount of hunting I get done here (deer, goat and pigs legal to shoot all year) it won't take long for me to get my money's worth.
I'm going with a DPT over barrel suppressor because they have a lifetime warranty and are commonly regarded as the best of the 'budget' suppressors but it looks to me like all you get from the more expensive ones are lighter internals. The DPT brings the sound of a supersonic 308 down to a 22 magnum but subsonics hardly make any noise at all! It'll cost me about $375 installed but with the amount of hunting I get done here (deer, goat and pigs legal to shoot all year) it won't take long for me to get my money's worth.
Honestly if people would take their heads out their ass they're nothing more than safety devices for ears, afterall "if it saves just one person from hearing damage" ....... How many times do cops confiscate bad guys guns with silencers, almost never. The guys doing shootings aren't worried about waking the neighbors, and the "professionals" that are can get what they like anyway.
I used to live in a place where AK variants ad suppressors weren't legal... Good old Canada... But now I'm free! I don't have one on my Savage yet because I'm waiting for a new barrel but a decent suppressor can be had for about $300 and they go up to around $550 for a brand new top of the line. Anyone can buy one and they're definitely worth it for hunting because they give you more than just one shot before the group of animals scatters plus saves on hearing loss ha ha.
I'm going with a DPT over barrel suppressor because they have a lifetime warranty and are commonly regarded as the best of the 'budget' suppressors but it looks to me like all you get from the more expensive ones are lighter internals. The DPT brings the sound of a supersonic 308 down to a 22 magnum but subsonics hardly make any noise at all! It'll cost me about $375 installed but with the amount of hunting I get done here (deer, goat and pigs legal to shoot all year) it won't take long for me to get my money's worth.
Good to see you made it to NZ and are embracing all the things you couldnt have before!
im actually going to be stopping in to see Darren @ DPT tomorrow to have my M14 chopped and threaded for a project
Already have a .308 muzzle forward suppressor of his for my Tikka and other M14 .. works pretty nice actually. for a $200NZD suppressor, which is cheap, it performs as well as some of the more expensive models, but as stated, a little bit heavier, but not by much
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Forest1488
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Here in Britain you can buy many different suppresors for just about any rifle model. It is simply a matter of hearing safety and is preferred when throwing lead down the range. Makes perfect sense to me.
Also, shooting rats with a .22 suppressed rifle with a NV scope all night long at some local farms keeps the noise down and doesn't wake the neighbours. Way too much fun!
Also, shooting rats with a .22 suppressed rifle with a NV scope all night long at some local farms keeps the noise down and doesn't wake the neighbours. Way too much fun!
blaxsun
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
I want one for all my guns.
Me too. Each and every firearm would have one if I could. Or I could just buy stock in FRAM.
Cheap sound suppressors are LOUD. There is no getting away from that fact. In NZ sound suppressors are cheap because they are very low tech and very big at the same time. Basically what you are buying is a stack of glorified stamped frost plugs. Small and quiet costs money.
A 22 Mag will run somewhere in the mid 150 dB which in comparison is fricken LOUD for a suppressed center fire rifle these days. The best US and CDN designs are running 138 - 140 dB for a 30 cal suppressor which is hearig safe at the muzzle. That means you can shoot the rifle without hearing protection and not damage your ears. If you haven't experienced that it is an oh so civilized way to shoot.
Matt_dal123
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Fenix, maybe you can correct me but many of the NZ produced cans seem to be of aluminum construction? I think the only reason they are getting away with using that material is the cans are quite large. Smaller centerfire rifle cans made of aluminum wouldn't last very long or put up with much abuse.
We don't typically run centrefire rifle cans wet anyway as it doesn't seem to make much improvement and has some unpleasant downsides. With really efficient baffle design you will also find that wet operation does not gain so much sound reduction.
We don't typically run centrefire rifle cans wet anyway as it doesn't seem to make much improvement and has some unpleasant downsides. With really efficient baffle design you will also find that wet operation does not gain so much sound reduction.
