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Short barreled bolt gun

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?
 
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
 
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
 
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
 

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