I won’t be doing any mag dumps. Mainly casual shooting and hunting.
How much quieter is a traditional can vs flow?
You should wear ear pro when shooting supersonic ammo anyway. Sure, the can quiets the ignition and greatly reduces the blast shockwave.
But if you shoot supersonics with a can
but with no ear pro, over time you will lose hearing, guaranteed. The crack is not hearing-safe.
That’s why many people with a number of suppressors don’t care too much about dB reduction. When you’re wearing ear pro, it’s not a big deal.
With ARs, flow-through is a bigger factor due to gas to the face (which, given high-volume shooting, can give you lead poisoning
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lead level info). It’s also just irritating as hell, which is my main reason for going flow-through on an AR.
I’d think through how you want to use the can, realize that almost for sure you’ll buy another can (even if you say you aren’t), look at how long the suppressor manufacturer has been in business (for lifetime warranty work), and pay attention to attachment methods pros and cons.
Personal opinion:
Except for semi-autos, I think direct thread is the way to go, probably via the HUB interface (but I’ve never used HUB). Direct thread is simple, cheaper, and because cans are harder to sell, it allows you to use your cans on whatever gun you like until you die.
But like a drug addict telling you not to use drugs, against my better instincts I am experimenting with secondary retention suppressor attachments. Both on an AR and a bolt gun. Just got the cans out of jail this week. I’m almost positive that I’ll regret the bolt gun can lol. It’s gonna get locked onto one gun due to needing a certain muzzle device (a ~$140 special brake).
Whereas I only one one AR, so having a secondary-retention can locked onto that is NBD. It’s a Surefire RC3, a heavy all stainless can meant to deal with heat better than my titanium bolt gun suppressors, so I might not even want to move that one around. I bought it to limit the can from walking off during strings of fire, which has happened to me with DT cans on ARs.
Most, like me, go through the below steps whether they want to or not.
Self-realization does not inoculate lol:
Suppressor Stages of Ownership (main)
Suppressor is both Intermediate (300 Supers, 5.56, 308) and Handgun (9mm) rated. It also has a HUB interface. Does there exist a HUB adapter that will adapt to 9mm tilting barrel handgun (piston, I dont think there is another system that works in this app), and also adapt to non-tilting barrel...
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Addendum 1 to above:
Suppressor is both Intermediate (300 Supers, 5.56, 308) and Handgun (9mm) rated. It also has a HUB interface. Does there exist a HUB adapter that will adapt to 9mm tilting barrel handgun (piston, I dont think there is another system that works in this app), and also adapt to non-tilting barrel...
www.snipershide.com
