BigWaylon
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This was one of the more shocking/surprising moments I’ve had shooting silencers.@BigWaylon was by earlier and was showing one of these
Compared to the commercial made .22 can all I could hear was the firing pin drop then the bullet cutting tree limbs It literally sounded like an air rifle
Imho the commercial can was a wee bit louder.
The first time I shot my suppressed 300BLK and heard the buffer spring go sproing in my ear was another.
I stopped by to see @LeeMajors after picking up my cans from being Cerakoted. I had put my CZ455 and RAR in the truck. The CZ has an Element 2 on it and the Ruger has a Sparrow.
We took a couple shots with the CZ/Element and the RAR/Sparrow. Then we put the F1 can on the RAR. Now, I have a little experience with silencers. I think he said he’d never heard a suppressed 22LR. I took the first shot and we just kinda looked at each other....like “did we just hear what we thought we did?” Took a couple more shots to make sure it wasn’t a fluke shot.
Without a doubt, the F1 can was noticeably quieter than two commercial cans. One of which (the Element) is held in high regards as one of the quietest ever made. This F1 was a kit from DM with a 1.125”x6” aluminum tube and ends, two SS radials and four Ti radials bored/clipped by ECCO, and Ti spacers.