We designed and built a small run of 5.56 silencers last year to supply our sniper section. The project was accompanied with a group buy to cost share the project whos silencers ended up costing $460 per unit and which we sold for $400 per unit at a loss- The resulting silencers many people derided as ugly and crap and even suggested we were dis-servicing our fellow soldiers by providing them with silencers that could fail and were various derrogatory things. They were tested by silencer research at ~32.5DB on a 14.5" barrel, putting them in the same company as the 2-3 quietest 5.56 production silencers in the country.
My brother was shooting with some soldiers from an interested unit a few days ago, and they fired 300 rounds and handed him his M4-actually requesting to order the silencer which we no longer produce. The muzzle can was hand tight with no nordlock washer. My brother put his M4 down and began shooting his pistol for 15 minutes before returning and firing 500 rounds through the can in ~10 minutes. When he told me the story his exact words were, "I was thrashing it really bad." He also told me that despite the gasbuster charging handle, the volume of fire was causing his eyes to water as carbon got into his eyes. The last 3 rounds were a three round burst and the last round lightly grazed a baffle and Evan noticed the bullet impact 1.5 feet low at 25 meters- stopping the range session. The silencer had loosened one turn on the muzzle thread and the second and third chambers of the silencer were glowing red in full sun in mid-day Baghdad Iraq. (IE over 1600F).
He took it off after it cooled and the over 3000 round fired baffle system appeared to have no abnormal wear or erosion and the only visible evidence of the strike was a light graze on the bore that looked like a faint rub mark.
The can is fully operational. Walking off the range someone asked him what was on his face- and he rubbed his face and his hand was black with carbon that had stuck to his sweat.
We don't make the silencers currently, but could manufacture them more afordably using different manufacturing techniques.
We're currently involved in a production run of a new 5.56 silencer design built around durability as a primary goal rather than sound. I just enjoyed my brothers latest story and some new knowledge of the capabilities of that product.
My brother was shooting with some soldiers from an interested unit a few days ago, and they fired 300 rounds and handed him his M4-actually requesting to order the silencer which we no longer produce. The muzzle can was hand tight with no nordlock washer. My brother put his M4 down and began shooting his pistol for 15 minutes before returning and firing 500 rounds through the can in ~10 minutes. When he told me the story his exact words were, "I was thrashing it really bad." He also told me that despite the gasbuster charging handle, the volume of fire was causing his eyes to water as carbon got into his eyes. The last 3 rounds were a three round burst and the last round lightly grazed a baffle and Evan noticed the bullet impact 1.5 feet low at 25 meters- stopping the range session. The silencer had loosened one turn on the muzzle thread and the second and third chambers of the silencer were glowing red in full sun in mid-day Baghdad Iraq. (IE over 1600F).
He took it off after it cooled and the over 3000 round fired baffle system appeared to have no abnormal wear or erosion and the only visible evidence of the strike was a light graze on the bore that looked like a faint rub mark.
The can is fully operational. Walking off the range someone asked him what was on his face- and he rubbed his face and his hand was black with carbon that had stuck to his sweat.
We don't make the silencers currently, but could manufacture them more afordably using different manufacturing techniques.
We're currently involved in a production run of a new 5.56 silencer design built around durability as a primary goal rather than sound. I just enjoyed my brothers latest story and some new knowledge of the capabilities of that product.
