Hey fellas,
those of you with experience behind the MK22 suppressor (AML 338) - how is it? POI shift, repeatability, sound?
Thinking of picking up a MK22 from a friend and if I did, I'd want the suppressor as well.
Its an $1,800 accessory that you could be replaced for half the price, for a $15,000 rifle that you can
actually buy for half the price. Granting that they're both cool as fuck, probably collectible, and you're already down for fiscal irresponsibility, it'd be foolish to get one and not the other.
With that in mind, I'm very happy with mine but I'm a simple man these days: the difference between 127.3 and 129.7 decibels at some arbitrary distance and angle from the shooter doesn't have any value to me anymore. It sounds
great to me, and good enough that range neighbors will, unsolicited, comment. I imagine it also helps tame the 300WM recoil but that could simply be the combination of a 15.2 pound rifle and 1.6 pound suppressor, too. Regardless, the 300WM in the suppressed Mk22 is more pleasant to shoot than 308 out of my suppressed M24A2.
It's my only rifle I haven't shot unsuppressed so I can't comment on POI shift. I do remove the suppressor every outing and the zero persists. The gate/lock on the AML338 (pics a few pages back) seems to be more than enough to prevent the suppressor from loosening accidentally or intentionally and always ends up at the 7 o'clock for me when locked. I think my only meaningful commentary is that the AML338
really benefits from a wrap though the same is probably true of Thunderbeast, as well.
Of note, and maybe this is obvious: if you get the AML338 suppressor for 338 barrels but also have 30 cal barrels, the muzzle devices are different spec to prevent attaching the AM30 to a 338 barrel. Just gotta make sure any 30 cal barrels are also equipped with the 338 muzzle device as well for that scenario.
When I reached out to Barrett recently, they indicated that every barrel/muzzle would be compatible with the AML338. I wonder if it's like Surefire: the AM30 works on the 30's but not the 338's while the AM338/AML338 work on both the 30's and 338's. It could also just be timing as every barrel is being updated to the latest generation.
