
Since I have a Grizzly combo lathe/mill at home that I use for making race car parts I already had everything I needed to make a suppressor. Speaking of subsonic bullet flight noise, the US Army's Silencers: Principles and Evaluations report found that streamlined boat tail bullets were much quieter in flight than flat base bullets such as the 30-30 Winchester or pistol bullets. The bullet was a 220 grain Sierra MatchKing boat tail bullet. The impact is as loud as the muzzle blast. It was a 100 yard shot with the microphone about 70 yards downrange. Here's a short high quality stereo mp3 recording I made of a suppressed 300 Blackout shot where you can hear the muzzle blast, bullet whizzing by and the target impact. Hollywood really does need to pick up on this for a little extra realism. A shot to an animal's chest with a subsonic 300 Blackout round sounds like a two-by-four body smack. When hunting with a suppressed rifle the reduction in muzzle blast allows you to hear the bullet strike. Something else Hollywood gets very wrong is the sound of a bullet striking flesh-it's loud. Less noise, less recoil, less muzzle flip and a sighting system that can take advantage it. 22.Ī suppressed pistol with a red dot sight can be frighteningly accurate. My 300 Blackout suppressor is very comparable to my Silencerco Osprey 45 commercial suppressor but they're much louder than a suppressed. It's not like in the movies where all you hear is brass hitting the floor. 22 suppressors are Hollywood quiet-quieter than a pellet gun-but many people are surprised by how loud suppressed 9mm and 45 ACP are. The 9mm Tavor uses a blow-back action so it functions without a suppressor 'booster'. 9mm Tavor X95 With Suppressor 1 3/4 inch diameter by 5 inch long suppressor. You must wait to begin building your suppressor until you receive the tax stamp. It will take three months to a year to get the tax stamp so send it in early. The first step in manufacturing a suppressor is getting permission from the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) by filling out a Form 1 and sending in $200 for a tax stamp. National Firearms Act (NFA) rules apply and you can do hard prison time for violating the law. By Major Rob Robinette Warning : You must have a BATFE Form 1 with tax stamp before you start to legally build a suppressor. (Thanks to Ars editor Sean Gallagher, a Navy veteran, for helping me with all my gun questions.)
