In other words, with the two used together, you don’t need to wear shooting muffs or earplugs.įor those uninitiated, subsonic ammunition is typically manufactured with reduced powder charges and increased bullet weight. Why? When used with a suppressor, subsonic ammo significantly reduces a firearm’s muzzle blast to hearing-safe levels. If you’ve recently joined the suppressor club, you might want to consider running subsonic ammunition this summer.
#Subsonic rounds with suppressor full
He then disassembled the Ruger and revealed how the replacement barrel was drilled every few inches, wrapped in a fine wire mesh, then in a Nomex type covering, all contained inside the outer sleeve that resembled a full length bull barrel.The summer is finally here, and with it comes more time outdoors and - hopefully - more time behind the trigger. Then I heard zzzzzzz as the bullet flew down range. Then he asked me to step down range about 30 feet and 20 feet or so off to the right, which I did, and he fired another round. I asked him if he'd loaded a live round and he smiled and said yes. All I heard was a click of the trigger mechanism. He loaded a round and, as I stood next to him to his right, he aimed downrange into the woods and pulled the trigger. Several months later I was visiting him at his rural home and he gave me a demonstration of the 10/22. So, after doing the necessary Class 3 paperwork and waiting a few months, he picked up the rifle. The conversion was done by a man in Victoria Tx ( as I recall) who, at that time, had some military related gunsmithing on his resume and offered a silenced barrel replacement for the Ruger. Years ago, back in the 80's, a friend of mine bought a silenced Ruger 10/22 conversion. If my Nikon keeps acting up I might have to see if I can snag one. I’d love to try out one of the POSP scopes. She’s very excited about it and I wouldn’t want to change that on the first pull! With my daughter about to start sitting with me on hunts, those extra decibels are worth the price. I don’t think anyone would call it quiet, but it’s definitely a lot more tolerable. I did have the opportunity to ‘try before I buy’ with my new suppressor. For me, I’ve been hunting with my WASR for years so it just makes more sense to me to keep tailoring it to my needs instead of trying to learn to make a new platform as familiar and natural to me as this one is. Suppressed AKs definitely have merit, though.
Effective enough but might not be the most sensical option. Although the manufacturer states 1115 ft/s and 541 ft-lb at the muzzle, which is greater than most average handgun calibers but falls well short of any magnum, 300 BO, or 5.56. The action feels like its moving so slow, with the BCG barely even reaching the back of the action.Įveryone loves videos, so heres the first shots I took after the initial single round.Ĭan’t really speak to the effectiveness of the subsonic ammo, never personally tried it. It is quite interesting shooting it, the gun feels entirely different. I only fired 20rds, but so far it was 100%. I ran out of time at the range and couldnt try my Omega 300, but I dont forsee any issues. I dont have a fancy adjustable gas piston or anything, just a bone stock WASR AK. Not only did mine cycle with the silencer, I tried a handful of rounds without, and it cycled those perfectly as well. Some people report it wont cycle their gun, even with the added back pressure from a silencer. So I loaded up a few more rounds and decided to try them to see if it would cycle.
#Subsonic rounds with suppressor free
It seemed pretty quiet, flipped the gun around and took a look, the can was in one piece, free of holes! I threaded it on (used a muzzle thread adapter because the Commies thread stuff backwards) with the 9k and took a shot. No guts, no glory! It made sense to me that if I started with my short pistol silencer, that has a 9mm bore, it would be much safer with a greater tolerance for error in the threading. The decision was made, I was going to just risk a baffle strike. I could have bought a Geissele rod to test alignment, but its hard to justify $80 for a 30 cal steel rod that Im going to use one time. The problem I had was that I wasnt sure if my AK had concentric threads. Brown Bear makes it, and its available for $0.40/rd. I decided it was time to join them up when I saw that subsonic ammo is now a thing and its not outrageously expensive.
So I have a couple silencers, an Omega 9k pistol silencer and Omega 300 rifle silencer.
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