Between improved Accuracy, Reduced Recoil, Scaring less game, widespread OK and Protecting your Hearing, there are a lot of reasons to consider Hunting with a Suppressor. Posted on 04/14/2021 8:46:43 AM PDT by w1n1
Between improved Accuracy, Reduced Recoil, Scaring less game, widespread OK and Protecting your Hearing, there are a lot of reasons to consider Hunting with a Suppressor.
Don't let this turn you off, but at present, suppressors are considered Class II weapons and are regulated by the National Firearms Act and subject to the same controls as machineguns.
To legally possess one, at the very least, you’ll need to fill out some forms (online or old-fashioned paper ones), get finger-printed at your local police station, pay a $200 tax, and wait for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to process your approval paperwork. Online submissions have been approved in as little as a month, but the paper submissions can take up to a year. Sometimes states have a few extra hurdles, but overall, it’s not a big deal to get a suppressor and you shouldn’t be intimidated by the process.
Hunters have realized the benefits of using suppressors and they are rapidly gaining popularity with sportsmen and -women. Suppressors are legal to own in 42 states and legal to hunt with in 40. In addition, suppressors have been shown to often improve accuracy and reduce recoil.
The extra weight on the muzzle and the gases pushing forward against the baffles inside the suppressor are the source of the reduction in felt recoil. Gains in accuracy stem from less stressful shooting, like reduced involuntary flinching associated with a loud report, and sometimes from the suppressor’s effect on the harmonics of the individual rifle barrel.
Other than adding 6 to 32 ounces to the rifle and making it impossible to use low-mounted iron sights, there are no negatives to suppressed hunting.
Survivalist hunters were among the first to embrace suppressors. A good survival strategy usually requires keeping a low profile in the wilderness, harvesting your food and defending yourself with the same rifle. A suppressor can help you do both more discreetly, but probably not as much as you think it will if you formed your opinions about them based on TV and movies.
The reality is that most suppressed centerfire rifles are closer in report to an unsuppressed .22 LR rifle. That’s why silencers are more accurately called suppressors. Still, let’s not diminish the achievement. Getting the report of a .308 rifle down to the level of a .22 LR rifle is a huge improvement.
THE CALIBER AND type of ammo you shoot will affect suppressor performance. Though any cartridge can be suppressed, loads with subsonic velocity (below the speed of sound) are the quietest. If you need to hunt with maximum stealth, your power and velocity options are limited. Subsonic .22 LR and .300 AAC Blackout fired through a good suppressor are no louder than the mechanical noise of the action cycling, but their practical hunting range is limited to under 100 yards. That’s not so bad in heavily wooded areas where most shots are going to be within that range, but not so good in the wide-open spaces of the West. Also, keep in mind that if you are hunting with a .300 Blackout, you have really dialed the ballistic technology clock back about 100 years when .44-40 Winchester Center Fire killed more deer than any other caliber.
If you can tolerate a bit more report, and usually a little more recoil too, just about any supersonic caliber is going to retain more energy longer, extend your range and kill more efficiently and humanely. Suppressing the typical supersonic deer calibers won’t always make them ear-safe, but you’ll be giving up nothing in terms of the performance you expect from them.
Anything supersonic (almost any centerfire rifle caliber) is going to produce its own sonic boom (the crack of the rifle shot) and there’s nothing a suppressor can do to change that. What the suppressor will do is reduce the volume of the gunshot by 25 to 40 decibels, which means that sound won't... Read the rest of suppressors for hunting.
I’m going to have to register a few things if Der Fürer’s Executive Decree stands. 😠
This “law” always surprised me. You would think the liberals would be ALL ABOUT LESSENING the potential for hearing loss and would DEMAND that a suppressor would be REQUIRED on every firearm. (I have one, pain in the A$$ to get and keep, don’t use it much, but I’m staying in and not robbing banks these days) /s
22lr..300AAC..please 458 Socom 550 gr at 950fps inside 100 yards nothing in North America is safe. I have seen hard cast 550gr go stem to stern on bison during a full event. Feral hogs have never seen a recovered bullet from any angle all exit with first sized exit holes. The 45 raptor in AR10 is so much oberkill for North America the 458 socom with 450gr8 super sonic rounds has a KPS of 115 at the muzzle and stays above 88 till 150 meters you “only” need a KPS of 88 for mature bull elephants. Moose is rated at 35 for comparison which the socom holds on to well past 225m it’s the rainbow trajectory past 100m that limits its usefulness not the energy it carries. All from a 8 lb AR platform the recoil is uh stout. But with a can it’s not much louder than a cci quiet 22lr ear safe but just barely.
Its the prices that are intimidating.
They are very simple devises to design and manufacture.
They should not be that expensive.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.