I have two AR 15's I bought for hunting. Quality guns. Good barrels, free float tubes, adjustable gas blocks, and aftermarket trigger. Been fooling with them unsuppressed, and then suppressed, first getting the gas blocks adjusted to function when suppressed and today to the range.
Here's what I learned:
The AR (bolt guns may be different), suppressed is a lot louder than I thought it would be.
With the gas blocks adjusted to operate the semi auto, there is more, not less recoil, and keeping your nose on the charging handle is a particularly nasty experience.
The brass is nasty black, and my guns were considerably less accurate.
In the end, I don't know why I bothered. The two guns are a 6x45 and a .264 LBC (6.5 Grendel clone). By the time you get the gas block adjusted suppressed and unsuppressed, and get the gun sighted in suppressed and unsuppressed, it does not seem worth it to me. For the one shot I'm going to fire at a coyote, what's the point of all the time a $$?
Here's what I learned:
The AR (bolt guns may be different), suppressed is a lot louder than I thought it would be.
With the gas blocks adjusted to operate the semi auto, there is more, not less recoil, and keeping your nose on the charging handle is a particularly nasty experience.
The brass is nasty black, and my guns were considerably less accurate.
In the end, I don't know why I bothered. The two guns are a 6x45 and a .264 LBC (6.5 Grendel clone). By the time you get the gas block adjusted suppressed and unsuppressed, and get the gun sighted in suppressed and unsuppressed, it does not seem worth it to me. For the one shot I'm going to fire at a coyote, what's the point of all the time a $$?
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