Thread: Suppressing a .243

Have a Remington sps in 243, 24'' barrel and have been developing hand loads for it with hornady 87 grain hpbt and hornady 95 grain sst. Have found that maybe it doesn't like the boat tail bullets so switched to 95 grain flat based with slightly better results. Wanted to try the hornady 87 grain softpoint flat base but unavailable at the moment. The gun is bedded with a 2 lb trigger. Best groups 1 1/4'' with 95s using 42grains of 2209, thinking now of cutting the barrel back to 20 or 21 inches and suppressing it with an over barrel DPT can. I think a shorter stiffer barrel may be the go and develop loads from there. Question is what are others opinion on the barrel length and experience with this combo, I don't want to go shorter than 20'' the twist is 1 in 9 1/4 I think.