Short barreled bolt gun

[RonS]

What is the shortest barrel for a .308 using a reduced load, that I can use safely using a suppressor for hunting shooting out to 200 yards?

 

[Minesweeper3433]

The only people that you can get an exact answer from on that is the company that manufactured your suppressor. Call them up and ask. I never take the internets word on something like that especially when the people who designed it are available. But my AAC can is rated down to 12 inchs

 

[GSRswapandslow]

unless you want to pay an extra stamp....stick to 16"
load up some 208's with trailboss and it'll be quiet...or, just buy a decent suppressor and shoot regular loads...it'll be hearing safe through a bolt gun

 

[Rustystud]

On another note check your local laws. NC prohibits hunting with a silencer.

Nat Lambeth

 

[GSRswapandslow]

On another note check your local laws. NC prohibits hunting with a silencer.

Nat Lambeth

hopefully that will be changing soon.

 

[TRECustom]

16.5" (from the bolt face) including the tenon, is a good legal length. I have heard that longer barrels can send a subsonic load supersonic. No experience to back it up, but it sort of makes sense.

Tom