Thread: Why Does Everyone Hate Dan Cans?

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This is what happened to my Hardy. Was shooting targets and only firing 3 shot groups , then removing to allow to cool. This happened on the 12th shot. A bit of a surprise when I went to remove it. My mate shooting beside me was even more surprised! I use this on two rifles but round count would be well under 1000, probably around 800. As for his service .... I emailed a couple of photos and rang. Didn't talk to Dan but the man I spoke to said send it back and we'll replace it. A few days later I received a new one. I can't complain at that. He stood behind his product and promptly. Send my swaro binos away to be fixed as something went wrong inside. That was at the beginning of April and not quite back here yet .... just saying. Perhaps they should say when you pay four times the price of good binos for really great binos, if something goes wrong it takes four times as long to get it sorted

Originally Posted by 7mmTom

Hey Guys
Whenever I see a thread on suppressors, lots of people hate on the Dan Can.....Why is that? 90% of NZ hunting stores sell them and say there great.....sooooo whats wrong with them? I even see they have better DB reduction......idk......correct me if i'm wrong.

Why do you care?

Originally Posted by 300_BLK

Why do you care?

Thinking of buying one.....

Originally Posted by omegaspeedy

I have many times experienced high quality service from DPT. An exceptional bunch of guys. The European machinist (I forget his name) should write the book on customer service. He's the gold standard!

@Friwi

Might be him.

Thanks. I am touched:-)

Originally Posted by Friwi

Thanks. I am touched:-)

I hope in an appropriate manner.

I had a Hardy AR suppressor on my 20" which I paid quite a bit for. A first Gen DPT on my mates 14.5" carbine was significantly quieter to the point we had to use ear protection for the first and not for the latter. I run a second hand DPT on my 308 and he's a absolute pleasure to deal with and will be getting more of my money.

Sorry Mr hardy based on this and other experiences with ARs I've heard of personally I won't be spending any more money with him.

fired 998 rounds through my 6.5mm dpt in less than 2 years and only given it a brush through and still going great. Way more than that in the 223 dpt.

On a mates rifle the Hardy's blew up and sent part of the suppressor back into his stock doing significant damage. Hardy didn't want a bar of it. In the end to get his money for the stock he had an independent engineer inspect it and said the thread holding the suppressor together was far too short and it was a inadequate design.
Heard of another couple crapping including one guy who had 2 bulge on his 7mm rem mag.
I currently have a gunworks that split but was fixed no questions asked. A lot of people I know have dpts including myself and have had no issues.

I used my dpt on a 308 for f class. Generally 3 strings of 12. Also have some mighty bombs up on the farm gongs, easily in exec chess of 30 slow fire and it gets frigging hot. I did put in a stainless baffle, which I think is more to slow erosion.
It’s probably not clever on my part but it’s such a pleasure to shoot.
This thread is the first I’ve heard of dpt blowups so for forgive me for being sceptical without photos. Certainly possible I’m sure.

Pretty sure Hardy failures were the problem here not DPT

everything can fail, in most cases it is what happens afterwards that matters for a companys reputation- and some biz owners struggle with this when they start having to be responsable for what staff do as well. Some learn and some never do.

Not against them at all, owned one...it came on a rifle I bought, it did the job absolutely fine. But when you can buy a product that'll essentially do the same thing, is a bit more user friendly - take cleaning for example, for pretty much half the price, and have fantastic customer support, why would you? I have three rifles suppressed, basically that's a $1000 saving, or thereabouts