First call I ever made

by **Rooster** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 3:19 pm

I pretty much made it for fun while I was in machinist school. It's mainly for looks but it does function and sounds pretty good

by **assateague** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 3:21 pm

Pretty sure that thing would get you pulled over if a statie happened to be driving by while you were practicing in your truck! :lol:

Seriously, though, it looks good. Woods has an aluminum call he made, and I've always wondered how they sound. Post up a video or sound file if you can.

by **Rooster** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 3:23 pm

Inside pic

by **Rooster** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 3:24 pm

assateague wrote:Pretty sure that thing would get you pulled over if a statie happened to be driving by while you were practicing in your truck! Seriously, though, it looks good. Woods has an aluminum call he made, and I've always wondered how they sound. Post up a video or sound file if you can.

Yeah it does kinda resemble drug paraphernalia. I will admit we did make a few of those also. For looks of course 8-)

by **Tiler_J** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 3:28 pm

That looks pretty cool. How heavy is it?

by **Rooster** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 3:37 pm

Tiler_J wrote:That looks pretty cool. How heavy is it?

The scale at work says it's 2oz

by **assateague** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 3:40 pm

Rooster wrote:
assateague wrote:Pretty sure that thing would get you pulled over if a statie happened to be driving by while you were practicing in your truck! Seriously, though, it looks good. Woods has an aluminum call he made, and I've always wondered how they sound. Post up a video or sound file if you can.

Yeah it does kinda resemble drug paraphernalia. I will admit we did make a few of those also. For looks of course

Turn me a silencer- I'll get you the I.D. and thread count! :lol:

by **Westie25** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 3:41 pm

How exactly does a silencer work? It's a series of chambers correct?

by **Rooster** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 3:59 pm

Westie25 wrote:How exactly does a silencer work? It's a series of chambers correct?

I think it's full of some sort of baffles

by **Rooster** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 4:00 pm

assateague wrote:
Rooster wrote:
assateague wrote:Pretty sure that thing would get you pulled over if a statie happened to be driving by while you were practicing in your truck! Seriously, though, it looks good. Woods has an aluminum call he made, and I've always wondered how they sound. Post up a video or sound file if you can.

Yeah it does kinda resemble drug paraphernalia. I will admit we did make a few of those also. For looks of course

Turn me a silencer- I'll get you the I.D. and thread count!

Im to pretty to go to jail lol

by **assateague** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 4:14 pm

Rooster wrote:
Westie25 wrote:How exactly does a silencer work? It's a series of chambers correct?

I think it's full of some sort of baffles

Baffles, usually with something like steal wool in between to help trap the gases. Same principle as a muffler on the truck, pretty much.

by **Westie25** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 4:17 pm

I want one.

by **assateague** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:02 pm

Me too. Badly.

by **Westie25** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:05 pm

And a full auto ar

by **TNAL45** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:03 pm

Westie25 wrote:And a full auto ar

I might know some guys if you get the clearances. I can def help you out AT but no way your cheap self is gonna buy one. :lol:

by **Rooster** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:10 pm

TheDude wrote:
Westie25 wrote:And a full auto ar

I might know some guys if you get the clearances. I can def help you out AT but no way your cheap self is gonna buy one.

I agree. He is one of the tightest human beings I know. Unless it has something to do with softball

by **assateague** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:25 pm

Yeah, I know! When I was living in AZ I eyeballed them at the gun shops pretty hard, but they were around $300, and I couldn't spending that much for a threaded piece of metal and fluff.

by **3legged_lab** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:35 pm

assateague wrote:Yeah, I know! When I was living in AZ I eyeballed them at the gun shops pretty hard, but they were around $300, and I couldn't spending that much for a threaded piece of metal and fluff.

That's it? The guy who makes them in town here gets $800 for SS, and about 2 G's for his titanium cans.

by **MOhuntingGuy** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:42 pm

Pretty sure they are a little more complicated than a metal can with some "fluff". They have baffle chambers inside them that directs the hot gases in a certain way to dilute it out. They can get pretty complicated from what I understand.

But I still like an empty plastic bottle filled with steel wool over the end of my .22 :fishing:

by **assateague** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:47 pm

MOhuntingGuy wrote:Pretty sure they are a little more complicated than a metal can with some "fluff". They have baffle chambers inside them that directs the hot gases in a certain way to dilute it out. They can get pretty complicated from what I understand.

But I still like an empty plastic bottle filled with steel wool over the end of my .22

Yeah, but it's certainly nowhere near as complex as the mechanical marvel it's attached to, which in my case was an XD40 for $350. Only $50 more engineering in the gun? I think they think a little too highly of their metal tube with fluff. :lol:

by **TNAL45** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 8:03 am

3legged_lab wrote:
assateague wrote:Yeah, I know! When I was living in AZ I eyeballed them at the gun shops pretty hard, but they were around $300, and I couldn't spending that much for a threaded piece of metal and fluff.

That's it? The guy who makes them in town here gets $800 for SS, and about 2 G's for his titanium cans.

I'm betting it was for a .22. You can't touch big calibers for less than 800 or so.

by **Westie25** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 8:04 am

I don't want one that bad.

by **TNAL45** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 8:45 am

Westie25 wrote:I don't want one that bad.

Yeah ya do. How else can you shoot your guns at family functions without disturbing the older family members.

by **Westie25** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 8:46 am

All the oldies at my family functions are the ones with the guns!

by **TNAL45** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 8:50 am

Westie25 wrote:All the oldies at my family functions are the ones with the guns!

I just wanted to show you the pic.

Have to pull it down before you know who does something creepy with it though. :roll:

by **Westie25** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 8:53 am

Is it strange that I had the same thought about you know who?

by **assateague** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 9:11 am

When I was in the Army, some of the high-speed guys in a unit I was attached to had suppressors on some H&K MP5s they let me shoot. I was amazed at how loud it still was, and that without the "BANG" to cover it up, an automatic weapon sounds remarkably like a can of nuts and bolts, which may fall apart at any time. I guess it would be better on a pistol.

by **TNAL45** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 9:33 am

assateague wrote:When I was in the Army, some of the high-speed guys in a unit I was attached to had suppressors on some H&K MP5s they let me shoot. I was amazed at how loud it still was, and that without the "BANG" to cover it up, an automatic weapon sounds remarkably like a can of nuts and bolts, which may fall apart at any time. I guess it would be better on a pistol.

You can hear the slide work but it's more of a ticking sound. They aren't silencers, but rather suppressors. It's quiet enough to shoot without earplugs, but you aren't gonna be popping people in the next room without waking someone up like they do in the movies.

by **assateague** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 9:36 am

Exactly.