Originally Posted By: Coyotehunter_I need to buy a flash suppressor or a muzzle break as my new Ambush didn't come with one installed on the barrel. I guess I'll have to figure out the diameter of the barrel where it's threaded and count the threads per inch to figure out what type of threads to get on a flash suppressor.
Right now my AR15 has a thread protector screwed onto the barrel where it's threaded at the end of the barrel. But that doesn't do anything to suppress sound or hide the muzzle flash.
I read that a muzzle flash may make it louder for the shooter than shooting without one. Without one the noise is pointed downrange away from the shooter but with a flash suppressor on the end of the barrel is points the noise and gases up down and out to the sides which makes it louder for the shooter. Is that true?
Do any of you guys wear those electronic noise canceling ear muffs when hunting? The kind everyone wears at the rifle ranges.
Mine amplifies normal sounds and then shuts off when it receives a loud noise like a gun shot.
I've noticed that they help protect my hearing well and also allow me to hear regular sounds that are amplified but that they make it harder to get a good cheek weld on the stock. They do hit the gun's stock and get in my way when I try to shoot my AR15?
I went hunting a few times and didn't have anything to shoot at so I didn't notice how loud the AR can be. All the other times I've shot my AR15 was at the rifle range. And at the rifle range one must wear good hearing protection or go deaf. At the range there are so many other guns being shot that if you don't wear hearing protection you can't hardly stay there for more than a few minutes. So now the first thing I do when I arrive at the rifle range is dig my ear muffs out of the box in the back of the truck and put them on the first thing.
Threads should be 1/2"-28