Posted on 11/16/2016 9:45:50 AM PST by w1n1
Silencer's has become a hot Commodity in the shooting and hunting community. It has gone so hot that a few people hve gone out of the way to attempt to melt a silencer from excessive rounds, then shooting a disintegrating round into a target from two feet away. But, have you ever seen one take so many rounds it melted?
Watch this video from Off the Ranch as these guys shoot enormous amount of ammunition in an attempt to melt a silencer. See the suppressor glow like a light bulb ornament on a Christmas tree.
The next part puts the icing on the cake, we see a round shot off at close distance (2 feet) at a steel target with no ricochets. Skip to 4:00 to see the action in video. Have you ever melted anything on a gun?
If you have to use a suppressor on full-auto, dude! They KNOW where you are! You just lit your ass up like a Christmas tree.....
A friend of mine who fought in Viet Nam said that his team used to remove the flash suppressor from their M-60's and Stoner's in order to get the best illumination during night fire-fights. He also told me a story that during one fight the barrel got so hot that it began to flex, really messing with his point accuracy.
Why?
I melted three M-16A1 rifles during night-fire training with the Army Reserves. Some LT received and opened 30,000 rnds of nothing but TRACERS. He couldn’t turn them in, so I signed for them and ran a three-hour, non-stop firing line with ancient AN/PVS-4s. People were lined up 30 deep in three lines until 3am.
The carrying handle cracked on one receiver, but when I got back and turned in the rifles, the depot called a week later to say the barrels were warped 1/2” off center, the gas tubes were shot and the no-go gauges practically dropped right out of the barrel.
My CO signed it off as LOD, thank God.
The maker of my 22LR suppressor says it’s made of titanium.....don’t know for sure, but that’s what it said.
Bunch of little cone shaped things with disks at the bottom that stack up inside the tube.
Who made your can?
Why do I have the feeling your CO snuck into one of those lines for a bit :)
Saw a video a couple of weeks ago where a guy shoots like 900 rounds through a full auto AR15 and the barrel got so hot it ruptured.
Advanced Armament Corp here in GA IIRC. Element II
The can is Titanium the innards are 17-4 Stainless K-baffles.
here’s the link
http://www.advanced-armament.com/ELEMENT2_p_437.html
No, she was a low-speed female LTC.
Two months later, I signed for four CASES of 40mm HEDP grenades and a bunch of other goodies for training in southern Indiana. When we got to Camp Atterbury, she told me she was cancelling range training for some other EO/PC bullshit.
I snuck out that night with the ammo and opened the GL range. Luckily, there was a Marine mortar platoon two lanes down dropping flares all night long. They shifted fire over our range and I had some of their guys lined up four hours. Good times.
I was Navy - but I remember Atterbury from NJROTC in High School over the summer....wow that was what ‘83/’84? Talk about flashbacks.
Cool, thanks.
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