What is on the end of the silencer that killed Bin Laden?

[MCKNBRD]

We're going to start seeing a newb trend of suppressor mounted flip caps at the ranges now.

THAT will be epic...and if you do, and they reference the HK pic, you need to ask them if they load their magazines backward because HK does...

Byrdman

[Mongo]

We're going to start seeing a newb trend of suppressor mounted flip caps at the ranges now.

And soon after we will see a rash of melted flip caps on the end of suppressors.

[57fairlane]

So let me get this straight, the SEALs use semi auto only guns or do they just use DIAS? Marketing pic with nothing to do with putting holes in any douche bags in Paki land.

It has the full auto marking on the lower

I know the selector lever is in semi (due to HK's stance on the commoners) but it looks like a standard 416 lower.

My only takeaway is that they have good choice in grips. I've got a hogue on every AR I own

[66427vette]

Real 416's have 3 pins at least mine do. There are a few semi auto 416 marked lowers out there. F/A markings mean nothing .

[tsands974]

We're going to start seeing a newb trend of suppressor mounted flip caps at the ranges now.

And soon after we will see a rash of melted flip caps on the end of suppressors.

My guess is once they see the melted flip cap on the end of their can, they will assume the SEALs use it for an instant liquefied adhesive- (ie. Camlebak bladder split? No problem, dump a mag and that handy flip cap becomes a liquefied adhesive. Simply touch the melted cap on the end of the suppressor to the split, let it solidify, and BAM. Problem solved, charlie mike).

[jimmym40a2]

If you blow the picture up it looks like its metal so I dont think its a scope cap. Its not a Buttler Creek anyway. I dont see a rim where the scope cap would seat.

[rimshaker]

In the book "No Easy Day" , one of the picture inserts show a 416 layed out with an MP7 and M79.

The silencer on the 416 also shows something on the endcap, but looks more like cloth instead of a hard cap. The can on the MP7 has nothing.

Can't really tell for sure; maybe my eyes are deceiving me.

[CThomas]

Clearly it is there to encapsulate the artificial environment that was created in the suppressor when they added some type of media or ablative. They did this in case the SEAL's ran into a potentially explosive atmosphere. It was widely suspected that UBL was cooking meth.
Now you know!

[JasonM]

If you blow the picture up it looks like its metal so I dont think its a scope cap. Its not a Buttler Creek anyway. I dont see a rim where the scope cap would seat.

How can you tell anything (especially the material) from a blown up, really poor quality, pixelated jpeg?

It looks like a lens cap to me, but AAC has made various versions of a clamp on rebar cutter… could be a small version of that?

[bitfi3nd]

In the book "No Easy Day" , one of the picture inserts show a 416 layed out with an MP7 and M79.

The silencer on the 416 also shows something on the endcap, but looks more like cloth instead of a hard cap. The can on the MP7 has nothing.

Can't really tell for sure; maybe my eyes are deceiving me.

That looks like gaffer's tape in the No Easy Day pic, which would make sense.

[Handloader]

Ever fall down in the sand and plant a rifle, have a sandstorm blast the color off the weapon, or have a helo "dust-off" in the sand such that everything is filled with sand (I have)? I'm a-thinkin' this just keeps the yuck out of the rifle, and can be shot through if need be (although a new environmental guard will need to be secured to the weapon).

[JasonM]

I do think Occam's Razor can be used, and it's just a cap to keep crap out during insertion...

[66427vette]

Just can't believe they would use semi auto only rifles. Full auto would be nice option to have. Did HK release photo? Must have tac-con installed .

[whiterussian1974]

I do think Occam's Razor can be used, and it's just a cap to keep crap out during insertion...

But wouldn't condoms be a better choice? The REAL Op probably used condoms, but HK marketing used them on each other before the photo shoot. So they used a flip-cap instead.

[CThomas]

I do think Occam's Razor can be used, and it's just a cap to keep crap out during insertion...

But wouldn't condoms be a better choice? The REAL Op probably used condoms, but HK marketing used them on each other before the photo shoot. So they used a flip-cap instead.

Condoms do tear

[whiterussian1974]

I do think Occam's Razor can be used, and it's just a cap to keep crap out during insertion...

But wouldn't condoms be a better choice? The REAL Op probably used condoms, but HK marketing used them on each other before the photo shoot. So they used a flip-cap instead.

Condoms do tear

Good point.
Better use a diaphram as a wipe on the inside and nonoxynol-9 flash reducer.
You can never be too careful.

[Bendersquint]

I do think Occam's Razor can be used, and it's just a cap to keep crap out during insertion...

This is the winner. It is a scope lens cover, we used them on my last deployment, keeps FOD from the can and barrel.

[Bendersquint]

Just can't believe they would use semi auto only rifles. Full auto would be nice option to have. Did HK release photo? Must have tac-con installed .

It was an M16, the pin is there.

[66427vette]

Just can't believe they would use semi auto only rifles. Full auto would be nice option to have. Did HK release photo? Must have tac-con installed .

It was an M16, the pin is there.

Your computer screen must be better than mine.

[Grounded]

I do think Occam's Razor can be used, and it's just a cap to keep crap out during insertion...

This is the winner. It is a scope lens cover, we used them on my last deployment, keeps FOD from the can and barrel.

Does this put them in the realm of chore boy and shoe strings?

[Bendersquint]

I do think Occam's Razor can be used, and it's just a cap to keep crap out during insertion...

This is the winner. It is a scope lens cover, we used them on my last deployment, keeps FOD from the can and barrel.

Does this put them in the realm of chore boy and shoe strings?

No it does not.

[whiterussian1974]

I do think Occam's Razor can be used, and it's just a cap to keep crap out during insertion...

This is the winner. It is a scope lens cover, we used them on my last deployment, keeps FOD from the can and barrel.

Bender, which Branch of Service were you?

[Bendersquint]

I do think Occam's Razor can be used, and it's just a cap to keep crap out during insertion...

This is the winner. It is a scope lens cover, we used them on my last deployment, keeps FOD from the can and barrel.

Bender, which Branch of Service were you?

ARMY and Contractor.

[whiterussian1974]

ARMY and Contractor.

If you were using cans, I imagine you were a Para or Ranger?
For Contractor: Security, Intel, Transport, Food Service?
I know people who cleaned up at KBR. Mostly Electricians and Plumbers, but some other Specs.

[renegade]

So let me get this straight, the SEALs use semi auto only guns or do they just use DIAS? Marketing pic with nothing to do with putting holes in any douche bags in Paki land.

It has the full auto marking on the lower

I know the selector lever is in semi (due to HK's stance on the commoners) but it looks like a standard 416 lower.

My only takeaway is that they have good choice in grips. I've got a hogue on every AR I own

It is not a 416, it is some kind of franken gun.

I cannot find a single part on it that was made by HK.