Stepped Cones - Benefit?

[RPM509]

Might be a question already covered, if so, sorry.
Do stepped cones offer any benefit to suppressing? For a mental exercise, they would appear to offer some benefit, if only to create additional disruption of the gases.
Thanks

[Bendersquint]

Might be a question already covered, if so, sorry.
Do stepped cones offer any benefit to suppressing? For a mental exercise, they would appear to offer some benefit, if only to create additional disruption of the gases.
Thanks

Yes, properly designed step cones can enhance suppression.

[RPM509]

Appreciate it. Folow-up: assuming disruption of the gas movement can be beneficial, is there a realistic limit to this, i.e. too much can also me a bad thing?

[a_canadian]

If you're talking about stepped cones you're talking about relatively high velocity rounds right? If that's the case it seems unlikely an cross-bore gas pressure stream is going to happen before the projectile is looooooong gone, so POI shift doesn't seem to be a likely issue. I'd guess (sorry, no experience here) that the biggest remaining issue would be cone thickness. I say that because the only practical way to get extreme about clipping would be to shave a very long face cut onto the cones, possible only if they have vast thickness. Or I suppose me might bend the metal or.swage it, forming a very broad 'clipped' face, but this seems impractical. Have you something specific in mind?

[RPM509]

Right now I am just doing chicken scratches on napkins kind of thing, thinking it through.
Some of the shapes I've considered are complicated and beyond my amatuer abilities, so
they may be a foregone conclusion that I won't make them. But if I can design someting
into a simpler design, I may proceed.

Really not trying to be obtuse, but I am wholly unsure at this point.

Thanks