OT gun silencers

micky · 2012-05-20T07:30:41+00:00

OT Are gun silencers on pistols really as effective as they show inthe movies? What about the breech? Does a lot of the noise comefrom there?And what about the muzzle? Doesn't the bullet make a hole in whateveris in the silencer, so the noise can follow the bullet out the hole?After all, the walls on the barrel are pretty strong, so the noisewithout a silencer must come out the mouth of the barrel. Why not outthe mouth of the silencer, at least after it's been used a coupletimes? I've fired a pistol, without a silencer, and didn't or couldn'tnotice these things.

OT gun silencers

May 20, 2012 44 Replies

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Mike Paulsen 14 years ago

Not necessarily...

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notbob 14 years ago

Good catch and interesting video. While I'm familiar with the Nagant, I don't recall EVER seeing one in a movie, silenced or otherwise. ;)

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gfretwell 14 years ago

I have also heard you could suppress a Dan Wesson revolver because of the tight cylinder to barrel clearance.

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notbob 14 years ago

Sounds bogus, to me. I had an early superblackhawk 44 mag. The cyl-to-barrel gap was a tight 0.003". I can't see any production process permiting a tighter tolerance. Anyway, that 3 mils didn't prevent a wall of flame and a deafening boom from escaping the gap.

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The Daring Dufas 14 years ago

The BATF agents will show up with machine guns and kill you if you don't pay the $200.00 tax. Ask the Branch Davidians who survived. ^_^

TDD

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