They look like hell, ruin the looks of a good looking rifle. If you buy one, you have to look at it.
For a hunting application I would 100% recommend one. My son shot his first deer this year using a suppressed 6.8SPC. He might have been a bit jittery and missed the first TWO shots. The buck never even flinched and luckily the 3rd shot happened at the correct time of the rising/falling crosshairs and missed right into his head. That moment was worth every penny and the entire 1 year wait.
Like a good trophy wife, you can look at it but not really hear too much out of it!
Fact check false. They do NOT have any such authority and are as subject to the 4th amendment/unlawful search and seizures as they ever were before owning ANY NFPA items.
I have two 6mmBR's that I regularly shoot suppressed. I use a Dead Air Nomad with their E brake. No loss of accuracy at all.
30+years ago suppressors were uncommon here.no one really cared for them and police constabularys didn't like them.then people started seeing the benefits of them and now it is very rare to see a hunting-varmint rifle without one.me and a friend were out foxing one night we were not far away from our town,just on the outskirts.it was a still and quite night.around midnight.my friend shot this fox in the bottom of this field,a deep valley in it with his 220 swift..unsupressed.the bang was so loud and the sound bounced all the way down town..dogs barking lights coming on in houses.it was like a bomb going off.unbelievable.it wasn't long before the police were out.we were long gone.that bang made our local news paper the following week.the land owner laughed about it and told us do it again..i spun the barrel in the lathe and fitted a suppressor promptly.problem solved.It is interesting ( and somewhat amusing) to observe the emotional reaction some on this forum have to suppressors. It's something you don't really see in parts of the world where suppressors have been in use for multiple decades. Carl S will identify with that. I guess change is unsettling to some people. Here in NZ, no-one cares whether you have a suppressor or not, it's entirely up to you and they're as easy to get as a recoil pad. Definitely don't have the Govt clipping the ticket and sticking their nose in.
All of my sporters and varmint rifles have suppressors, the exception being my heavy .280AI deer truck gun with 27" bbl. None of my competition guns have them as there's no point. One of the big advantages of suppressed guns is when you're out in the field with buddies- you don't have to worry about blasting them. Far more sociable. You can shoot a deer on one side of hill then find another undisturbed one just over the crest.
Much of the velocity loss with shortening barrels can be overcome with intelligent loading.
Here is my 7-08 Tikka with a 16" bbl. It deliver a 120TTSX (equivalent to a 140 lead bullet) at 2940 and that thing kills deer very well out to 300yds, further at times. It is very light and useable in tight bush, something we have plenty of here.
