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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

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.

Inside pic

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

That looks pretty cool. How heavy is it?

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

The scale at work says it's 2oz

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!

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

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

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

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.

I want one.

Me too. Badly.

And a full auto ar

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I don't want one that bad.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Exactly.