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To: Mechanicos

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BS!

You cannot silence a super-sonic projectile!

(More physics, less BS)


23 posted on 07/05/2017 9:32:21 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

Sure you can. Acoustic feedback.


24 posted on 07/05/2017 9:45:42 AM PDT by robroys woman
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To: editor-surveyor
"BS!

You cannot silence a super-sonic projectile!

(More physics, less BS)"
Sure you can. Just slow it down. Which it's going to do of its own accord anyway ...eventually.

This rifle only has a 10" barrel with a 6" permanently-attached muzzle device (the suppressor). Any permanently-attached muzzle device is included in the BATF's accounting for total barrel length, which is how this weapon dodges the additional $200 tax for a short-barreled rifle.

Most "standard velocity" .22LR is subsonic when fired from a barrel as short as 16" (all .22 match ammo is), and I dare say even most "high velocity" ammunition will be subsonic from this 10" barrel. So I think you could shoot most any ammo you want from it and it still will be subsonic at the muzzle.

If it isn't SSS, it's easy to tell even without a chrono because the crack of the supersonic bullet makes a very discernible echo. It can be difficult to hear the difference with an unsuppressed rifle because the muzzle blast (which is only a couple of feet from the shooter) overpowers the echo (which is coming from some yards away) but with a suppressor, you can hear the echo of every shot that's supersonic (unless you're in the middle of the Bonneville Salt Flats and there's nothing within a mile for it to echo off of).

29 posted on 07/05/2017 11:22:52 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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