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    Quote Originally Posted by Kiwi Greg View Post
    Short barrels, magnums, moisture, heat, old age & use give suppressors a hard time no matter the brand
    Yeah. 300 saum and 270 wsm with 20 & 22" barrel and full house loads hunted hard. And never maintained.
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    What is it, DPT? Actually looks to be a pretty benign failure mode for that particular type of product, if it is a DPT good ad for their gear. I've seen a Gunworks that got the muzzle plugged split the side of the outer tube along the whole length, and quite a few of from (Mumble Rifle) that blew the whole ends clean off the cans - shut the range down, make safe, go collect the bits, tell off the shooter for using excessively big projectiles haha.

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    Reminds me of the time at Brian's when we put the wrong threaded suppressor on one of the 280's it blew off and went through Wheramai's chronograph shades and wires .
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    Quote Originally Posted by No.3 View Post
    What is it, DPT? Actually looks to be a pretty benign failure mode for that particular type of product, if it is a DPT good ad for their gear. I've seen a Gunworks that got the muzzle plugged split the side of the outer tube along the whole length, and quite a few of from (Mumble Rifle) that blew the whole ends clean off the cans - shut the range down, make safe, go collect the bits, tell off the shooter for using excessively big projectiles haha.
    Yes. I have no problems with the product.
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    Probably payed for itself over time anyway
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    geezus mate!
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    You were surprised? how do you think the deer felt (-:
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    Quote Originally Posted by Marty Henry View Post
    You were surprised? how do you think the deer felt (-:
    well 20 minutes later it felt a bit "gutted"
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    And they say suppressors are sposed to make the shot quieter
    Makes me wonder about my Hardy that you cant take apart???
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    Waitaki cans and Gunworks over barrel suppressors. Have put about 5000 rounds through both no problems. Can’t dismantle to clean so they accumulate carbon inside but still keep working. Never heard about cleaning suppressors until reading on here, sod that for a pass time.
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    In professional and Defence circles they are treated as a consumable. Your wallet has probably been in debt to your suppressor for a few years now, and the suppressor has decided its time to reset the ledger
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    How quiet it can be with 223?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Black Rabbit View Post
    How quiet it can be with 223?
    similar to .22lr if you get really serious and keep adding baffles you can get the muzzle blast down to nothing but you still cant eliminate the sonic boom/crack from projectile itself unless you go subsonic....then you are basically bowhunting.
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    Quote Originally Posted by XR500 View Post
    In professional and Defence circles they are treated as a consumable. Your wallet has probably been in debt to your suppressor for a few years now, and the suppressor has decided its time to reset the ledger
    Yeah, I get that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kiwi Greg View Post
    Short barrels, magnums, moisture, heat, old age & use give suppressors a hard time no matter the brand
    No just supressors ....

 

 

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