Oh that's crudely home made, from some awful Home Depot stock, probably 1024 or similar crappy aluminum. Messy to machine with my little hobby tools. Sure works though. Seems I glitched on the length - looking at the picture in a plastic parts box and holding a ruler in about the same orientation in...

No foam, whatever that is. It's just way too filthy, even before adding a bit of white lithium grease. With that stuff it becomes extra-gross in no time. I didn't think of the porting or sleeve or wrap in terms of FRP. From quite early on in my tinkering with this stuff I learned from folks around h...

Oh man, I don't normally feel like countries should go around interfering with other countries, but... seriously, someone ought to take out ALL the top politicos in the CCP or whatever the heck it would take to allow the people to rise up. They have to be close to ready for a revolution with all the...

About 6 years ago while playing with an old pistol I tried various damping devices around 7 ports in the 7.5" long barrel. Mesh wrap was okay, but quickly got filthy. This was the most satisfying device I used and it lived on the barrel for some months before I decided the whole thing was just ...

A while back a friend brought me one sort of like this, for another friend of his who had picked it up via eBay for $28. It was just before the RCMP decided to notice such things and have CBSA confiscate them on arrival at ports of entry. It had 7 'cups' which looked very much like the ones to which...

It's seemingly the cool thing to do, talking to criminals as though they deserved respect. Ted Wheeler has been doing it for years in Portland and he's one of the most hated people in that city, with many in Antifa and BLM threatening violence against him. The city council in Minneapolis is claiming...

If your baffles are removed for cleaning, or even a monocore baffle system, then replaced in a different rotational orientation relative to the barrel, POI shift is virtually guaranteed. Marking or otherwise maintaining identical baffle orientation is important for consistent POI, especially for sub...

Funny you should ask. Just the other day I screwed a 1.5" x 10" suppressor with an 11.5mm bore, made for a 9mm carbine barrel, onto a break-action .22lr rifle with a 10" barrel and test fired it with CCI SV. The thing metered EXACTLY the same as the dedicated 1"x7" K baffle ...

Integral can be a bit more forgiving in terms of integrity of the blast baffle, a significant reduction in pressure in that chamber owing to the large expansion volume behind it and around the barrel. This becomes even more the case with a ported barrel but that's not what you're doing here. Alignme...

The closest I've gone to the muzzle with ports is 1", on a relatively low powered .22" PCP which I've tuned to shoot 18gr pellets at about 500fps. With 3 x 1/8" ports from 3" to 1" before the muzzle, a 3/4" OD barrel shroud to contain that's expelled air, then a 3.5&quo...

My experience is limited to 2 related efforts both in .22lr, one a 10" barrel ported with 8 x 1/8" holes between 5" and 7" from the chamber, the other a 6.5" barrel ported with 7 x 1/8" holes between 4.25" and 5.25". In each case I used K baffles ahead of the ...

Steel wool will burn up fairly quickly. Perhaps you mean the mesh ribbon type scrubbing pad, such as 'chore boy' made of copper plated stainless steel? Or copper mesh? Any sort of plain steel wool is highly flammable. Not something I'd recommend for use in a suppressor even for .22lr. If you do use ...

I'd not use the same can for .22lr and 9mm. Tried that, and performance with .22lr through the much larger baffle bore is very disappointing. But hey, your call. It'll certainly suppress the noise, just not nearly so nicely as a dedicated .22lr suppressor. I typically flip my K baffles 180 degrees, ...

A single Dater hole 1/16" in the first K is fine, especially with a very short initial gap - 1/4" between muzzle and the first entry point in the baffle is about right for .22lr. With supers that might be a bit small, but the Dater hole relieves some pressure making it okay. With subs the ...

Not trolling, as I just don't know about the primaries - how transparent is that process? How manipulable? Here we have party members and secret ballots choosing party leaders. No way I can see for the general public to know what games were played, whether cheating happened, what sorts of bargains g...

Well it's not like you guys had any actual choice in 2016. It was Bozo the Friggin' Clown or Hillary Goddamn Clinton. How was that a choice? It's what the billionaire class decided for you, either way. Not saying we're any better off up here. Andrew the Snivelling Coward Scheer on the Conservative s...

It really depends on which solvent trap you order, concerning the quality of metal and how it's been worked. I had a friend of a friend bring me one which he intended to use on a 10/22, thing was 1" OD and 5.5" long and the end caps were neatly threaded, the rear face perpendicular to the ...

As I understand it, the BATF considers even 1 'extra' baffle to be a suppressor in its own right, effectively a 'weapon' by the definitions they enforce. No extra internal parts are permitted. The workaround, of course, is to ignore the regulation and do as you please... just don't get caught, as th...

Guess we have different perspectives on what perspective does for geometry... but I'll leave it at that. Good luck on your adventures.

I suggest a word processor, including saving the document (which can be recycled indefinitely, stored in a convenient location), because sometimes computers crash, wiping the clipboard.

Well if you say so, but that's confusing considering how obviously off-centre that hole is in the image you shared. Perhaps that one wasn't part of the build you test fired? In any case, those parts don't really seem adequate for .300blk. Perhaps they'll last a little while, and if you stuck to subs...

Have to admit I was lazy looking at your blurry picture of what looks like a slightly conical washer made of poorly anodized 6061 or maybe even 2023 alloy. I didn't notice (somehow, amazingly) that the bore hole was WAY off centre. Looking at it again in the context of your question above, which I f...

Pro tip: if you're finding yourself typing long passages only to lose them for some reason when submitting the text in a forum, try typing into Notepad or some word proeccor software first. From that program you can then copy the text into a browser window and try sending it If it fails, you still h...

Yeah, well, we were all noobs once. My first suppressor had a steel tube, ebony rear plug, brass front cap, and a perforated plastic tube wrapped in steel wool for dulling the noise of a weak airgun. It worked a little. Washers and spacers next. Then K baffles. K's are very satisfying when you do th...

This is the Obsidian clip: https://www-internationalsportsman-com.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/DSC_1971.jpg While the Obsidian 'clip' has always seemed to me a bit of a poor choice considering much more effective clip styles are easily done, with their steep and stepped cones it seems to w...