Re: Ti-Rant or KAC for Mark 23
1shot, it would seem so but in actuality while it is better than nothing, if I was to have you shoot a 9-thru-.45 next to a dedicated 9mm you would set the 9-thru-.45 down and walk away. It is a big difference a sobering reminder that over bore really becomes a problem over 9mm. 9mm suppressors can be very quiet, one of the quietest and still reasonably powerful handgun rounds. I understand you want to save some $$ and shoot 9 and .45 thru a single can, but just know it doesn't compare to a dedicated can.
The gorilla in the room..KAC sucks. Anyone who thinks that "Before the TiRant and Osprey came along the KAC was the quietest dry .45ACP suppressor" has a career as a standup comedian ahead of them. It was and is what it was designed to be, the cheapest possible contract alternative. The core of the can came right out of an AWC when Mac transferred 2 fully functional .45 pistol suppressors to Reed as the starting point for the contract that was eventually awarded the SOCOM offensive handgun contract. Doug Olson, who went on to work for Reed for this project had been employed by AWC Systems Technology after leaving Qual-A-Tec. Mac walked away from the whole contract when it became clear that cost, not effective suppression was the goal of the program. Nobody and I mean not a single person that hears a KAC can next to any of the high end cans thinks the can is worth buying. In local news, when a local shop with very knowledgeable clients changed hands, there was a killer sale on cans, about 25 cans were sold in 24 hours, one brand was left of the shelf, KAC.
Everybody has their favorites, mine is cut out of a solid billet of Ti, deep penetration welded, forward purging, weighs less than anything mentioned thus far is FA rated, has access to the diffuser and first baffle, has brilliant tunable Neilson and whose ceramic epoxy finish alone takes longer than most others take to build their cans.
We can argue about whether any can in 2011 should have any aluminum in it, or what it actually happening with Ti and ceramics, or whether a volume based can the size of a canoe has any practical application, but KAC? KAC? Time to get real.
Its like this...but with worse welding...
compared to this...
This...an old pic, used for comic relief....there is a less expensive can here somewhere....
Compared to...3 hours of machining just for the strongest envelope extant, in Ti, with non-linear internal support and T.H.O.R.
