Suppressors If you could start over w/ your stamp collection?

[bp78]

What would you do different in regards to your SBR and suppressor collection if you started from scratch now?

My first tax stamp arrived yesterday after a 4 month wait. A 10.5" AR SBR. Now I'm ready to apply for my next stamp, a can, and start that wait.

If you could do it over from the start, what would you use your tax stamps on? I could guess folks likely regret a cheap can down the road but how about things like buying a 223 can vs just buying a 9mm/30cal can to cover 223 too?

 

[Kevin_Deaton]

Re: If you could start over w/ your stamp collection?

I would have less pistol cans. I've got two 45 suppressors and two 9mm suppressors and they just don't get used much. The problem I have with a pistol can is that when they are on the pistol the overall package is so long that I might as well be using a suppressed SBR.

 

[BOLTRIPPER]

Re: If you could start over w/ your stamp collection?

i would shoot heroin between my toes....its cheaper in the long run

 

[wakerider017]

Re: If you could start over w/ your stamp collection?

I'd own the S/S take-apart octane 9 instead of the trident 9...

Why can't suppressor companies re-use tubes and make money by upgrading old suppressors?

I'd be willing to pay a pretty penny to have S/S baffles..

 

[lazy21]

Re: If you could start over w/ your stamp collection?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BOLTRIPPER</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i would shoot heroin between my toes....its cheaper in the long run</div></div>

LMAO.........I bet thats true

 

[chainring]

Re: If you could start over w/ your stamp collection?

I'd have SBR'd a nicer lower receiver....seriously, a Bushmaster? What was I thinking?

I would also have bought the .30 caliber can first (AAC 762SD) and run it on everything instead of getting the 556 can and THEN the .30 cal. That is especially true now that AAC is making the 762SD-N6.

Much as I enjoy shooting and owning it, I would not get a 14 inch shotgun again. I love the little Wilson, but 18 inches would have been fine - woulda used that stamp for a 9mm can!

So, I still want an M4-2000, I want to replace my older 18 tooth 762SD with the new 51 tooth 762SD-N6, and I want a quality 9mm can for the Glocks. That's all I want for Christmas!

 

[ArmaHeavy]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BOLTRIPPER</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i would shoot heroin between my toes....its cheaper in the long run </div></div>

Lead Addiction is always cooler.

 

[operator45]

Re: If you could start over w/ your stamp collection?

Reaper Arms Reaper 223 SBR and a AAC 762-SDN-6. and my Kirnkov love that thing

 

[KaneK]

Re: If you could start over w/ your stamp collection?

I agree with that!!! I wish I registered a kac lower not a spikes & Noveske.

I will say the m4-2000 is an amazing can, no regrets there. Especially now with a full auto baking off all the paint


<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: chainring</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I'd have SBR'd a nicer lower receiver....seriously, a Bushmaster? What was I thinking?

I would also have bought the .30 caliber can first (AAC 762SD) and run it on everything instead of getting the 556 can and THEN the .30 cal. That is especially true now that AAC is making the 762SD-N6.

Much as I enjoy shooting and owning it, I would not get a 14 inch shotgun again. I love the little Wilson, but 18 inches would have been fine - woulda used that stamp for a 9mm can!

So, I still want an M4-2000, I want to replace my older 18 tooth 762SD with the new 51 tooth 762SD-N6, and I want a quality 9mm can for the Glocks. That's all I want for Christmas!

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[bp78]

Re: If you could start over w/ your stamp collection?

Good answers folks. Thanks.

 

[blksno]

Re: If you could start over w/ your stamp collection?

I guess it may have been nice to go with a .40 can instead of a 9mm can. JUST BECAUSE it leaves the door open for other caliber hosts.
I love being able to use my .30 cal can on all of the calibers from .243-.30
I kind of wish I would have gone with a pistol cal SBR instead of my glock, but that's so close of a toss up that it's hard to really say for sure.
The Glock is AWESOME for home defense and just plain messing with...but the sbr would get LOTS of subs and time in the field predator hunting.

I'm sure my .22 SS Sparrow will get the most use, but it's also probably the least necessary. Still, I'm gonna just plain love having it.

 

[glocksig40]

Re: If you could start over w/ your stamp collection?

I have 3 cans and 1 SBR. My Shark .308 can gets used on 223 and 308, the SWR Spectre can is used on .22 rifle, .22 pistol and soon the .17 HMR rifle, the 9mm SWR Trident goes on the 9mm SBR upper as well as the Glock 9mm pistol. The SBR lower is used with a 5" barrel 9mm upper as well as a 10" barrel 223 upper. Ive tried to buy cans based on being able to use them on multiple firearms. Wouldnt change anything so far.I love my stamp collection and hope to get more. Robinson XCR SBR soon

 

[kalashnikev]

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1) Waited 2 weeks for the super-secret, unknown, SWR Octane to be released.
2) SBR'd a better receiver than my Superior Arms- the mag well is tight.

 

[kalashnikev]

Re: If you could start over w/ your stamp collection?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: wakerider017</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I'd own the S/S take-apart octane 9 instead of the trident 9...

Why can't suppressor companies re-use tubes and make money by upgrading old suppressors?

I'd be willing to pay a pretty penny to have S/S baffles.. </div></div>

... or user serviceable.

I know there's "jailbreaking" and it voids your warranty... and at least you can do it with a TiRant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOeKSXno0CY

 

[bp78]

Re: If you could start over w/ your stamp collection?

I guess I've started off well so far based on the advice here, I did buy a nice billet POF lower, laser engraved it cleanly for my SBR registered lower.

Still wishing for the perfect multi-caliber carbine/rifle can. Something to cover my .22lr and .223 rifles.

Down the road my second stamp for a can would probably be either a light dedicated .22lr can for some pistols or perhaps a 9mm can for the glocks & 1911.

Thanks again for the advice - keep it coming.

 

[bachelorjack]

Re: If you could start over w/ your stamp collection?

I would have never bought a 5.56 can. At the time .30cal cans were too heavy and large. The idea of dual use was only viable by idiots and bargain hunters. Should have held out. Don't shoot much 5.56 anymore to begin with. At the time I only shot 5.56 when it came to rifle stuff.

I would have never built a Camp 45 integral. Disaster of a project. So much so that when I finally got it together and perfected, I wanted nothing to do with it anymore. It really cemented a few things. First I will NEVER own another Marlin firearm. Second, I will NEVER process paperwork until I physically hold it in my hand and inspect it. Marlin's suck and Doug at SRT occasionally puts out a turd.

I would have never bought take down tools for my Tac-65. What in the world was I thinking with this take apart, clean it yourself nonsense? Every time I see the uneducated wine about wanting to take apart and clean their suppressors I laugh. Case in point, the Tac-65 take apart tools suck. For the price of the tools I can have it professionally unfucked and rebuilt with new internals and shipped back to me. Have fun with that.

 

[boomfab]

Re: If you could start over w/ your stamp collection?

I've since "fixed" these problems but here goes.

1) Don't get a thread-on can with funky ass metric threads just because you think at the time the Sako TRG is the end-all be-all. Finding someone to thread your new bolt gun barrel in M18x1 in a timely manner is a bitch. I have neither the TRG or the M18x1 can anymore.

2) Don't buy into the Form 1 bullshit. Buy factory SBRs. They retain their value very well and don't have all your info scratched on the side of them. All my previous Form 1 guns have been returned to Title I and sold off, it's a PITA.

3) Be happy with the quality suppressor that you already own. If you always pursue the current latest and greatest then you are going to have a crap load of cans laying around unused, unless you have a local buyer to buy them from you.

4) Don't buy a .45 ACP can. Most of them suck. Just shoot a 9mm.

 

[jonaddis84]

Re: If you could start over w/ your stamp collection?

Id have just gotten my dealer license and not thrown $200 out the window for every one I have now

 

[bp78]

Re: If you could start over w/ your stamp collection?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BachelorJack</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I would have never bought a 5.56 can. At the time .30cal cans were too heavy and large. ....

... Every time I see the uneducated wine about wanting to take apart and clean their suppressors I laugh. .... </div></div>

I'd be the latest whiner you're laughing at, fair enough.

So based on the advice here and other threads, my near-term stamp collecting plan is:
1) .22lr can, SWR Spectre or SS Sparrow
2) 30 cal multi use can (not that I have any 30 cal rifle I'm interested in suppressing *yet* but hopefully it'll work on my ARs and perhaps a 9mm Glock or two. (no?)

 

[kalashnikev]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: bp78</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
2) <span style="font-weight: bold">30 cal</span> multi use can (not that I have any 30 cal rifle I'm interested in suppressing *yet* but hopefully it'll work on my ARs and perhaps <span style="font-weight: bold">a 9mm Glock or two.</span> (no?)
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Ummmmmm... no.

lol

 

[bp78]

Re: If you could start over w/ your stamp collection?

Soon after I posted that I figured as much. The Liberty Mystic is interesting in it's claims for 9mm, .223, and .308 Win-Subsonic but that interest soon fades when you read closer and see the .223 16"+ requirements and warning about cooling off period... Guess I'll discard any 9mm / .355 ideas but still stick to a 30cal can as stamp #3.

 

[Redbeard80]

Re: If you could start over w/ your stamp collection?

All I have is a Tromix S17 Saiga love it I want a 30 cal. can for my 300win. and 6.5x55 sill don't know what one I want one in titanium

 

[bp78]

Re: If you could start over w/ your stamp collection?

I gave up on my universal .22lr/556 can search - should have an order complete and paperwork started on a SS Sparrow later this week.

So now I guess I start my search for a 556 can. Something that for now will be used mostly on a 10.5" LMT SBR and then a 24" precision build. Based on the advice here already given, a 30cal can sounds like the way to go. What's the short list to start looking at? I could see a .308Win or even a 300BLK or similiar in my future by not anything bigger or hotter. Another thread looks like the AAC 762SD/N might be a good place to start?

QD with the appropriately threaded brakeout / blackout comps/fh's on 1/2-28 ARs or 5/8-24 30cals?

 

[RollingThunder51]

Re: If you could start over w/ your stamp collection?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: wakerider017</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I'd own the S/S take-apart octane 9 instead of the trident 9...

Why can't suppressor companies re-use tubes and make money by upgrading old suppressors?

I'd be willing to pay a pretty penny to have S/S baffles.. </div></div>


Many do upgrade their internals.