Thread: Suppressors and water

Originally Posted by csmiffy

Think I've read somewhere about co2 being introduced into the silencer to stop first round pop.
Possibly a small amount if water in there would do a similar thing. Work like a cooling agent on the burning gases.
Edit:Well it's been a while so not sure if this is it, but could well be

https://www.arbuildjunkie.com/the-po...nt-suppressor/

I am reading this thread and wondering if it is the fact that water is not a rigid material and that its movement / flexibile surface stops the sound waves in the same way a soft surface works in a recording studio......

Originally Posted by timattalon

I am reading this thread and wondering if it is the fact that water is not a rigid material and that its movement / flexibile surface stops the sound waves in the same way a soft surface works in a recording studio......

I would suggest it would be much like water filled batwing bags and stonedust in u/g coal mines.
It is picked up by the blast and puts out the flame of the explosion.
And yip see little proper use for it in our circumstances unless really trying to prove a point