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Thread: Should I fit a silencer?
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26-10-2023, 20:46 #11
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26-10-2023, 21:25 #12
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26-10-2023, 22:21 #13
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Re: Should I fit a silencer?
Ha ha, you've pinned me like a bug. Have a minty mid 90's Winchester Mod 70 that I would love to fit with a suppressor but can't get past modifying. It's hardly a collectible or special thing but my walnut and blued steel geek . . . . I'd best get to shooting out that barrel.
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27-10-2023, 09:15 #14
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Re: Should I fit a silencer?
That's the spirit
I was a bit squeamish about chopping up fairly decent rifles to fit silencers but once I did it, I haven't looked back.
Of course a true collectible is different. But then you not going to be using your vintage H&H or Rigby to knock about in the rocks or thorns anyway.
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27-10-2023, 11:17 #15
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Re: Should I fit a silencer?
I have 3 old Musgraves and also cannot bring myself to putting silencers on them even though I know its the right thing and more and more farms are wanting them fitted...
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27-10-2023, 11:29 #16
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Re: Should I fit a silencer?
I was against fitting a silencer to my 300WM. The only reason i eventually succumbed, was because of the recoil and losing your sight picture of the animal i was hunting. Recoil is much more manageable now and i can see if it's a hit or not.
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27-10-2023, 11:35 #17
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Re: Should I fit a silencer?
Weird thing with silencers is that when Maxim came up with them they exploded in popularity and might have become a near standard fitment to noisy civilian guns if it weren't for us legislation (the NFA of 1934) which was enacted in part as a response to the violent gangsterism of the 20s and thirties.
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27-10-2023, 11:40 #18
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Re: Should I fit a silencer?
I know exactly how you feel.
I had 3 magnificent Sako collectible rifles for years that I could hardly bring myself to shoot at the range. With
the kids living overseas I eventually sold them and gave them the money. My go - to rifle was a .308 which I still
have. Cheap, tupperware stock, fragile but I have shot many, many animals with it.
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27-10-2023, 11:45 #19
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Re: Should I fit a silencer?
When and if I get to start doing a bit of furred game hunting that will be exactly what I do. 308 in preferably second hand Howa, Tikka, Remington or similar flavour with a silencer and an epoxy and glass fibre reinforced and bedded tupperware stock. Won't so much as wince when it takes it's first ding.
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28-10-2023, 08:27 #20
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Re: Should I fit a silencer?
Just a thought, before you decide, take it hunting without a silencer. Affordable in ear electronic ear pro is available to protect your hearing. I have worn out two barrels on a .300 win mag while hunting and never felt the need for a silencer.
As to whether you should or should not fit a silencer to that Steyr, that is your choice. It is not a collectable rifle like a Mannlicher Schoenauer or an original A-type Oberndorf Mauser would be. In firearm terms 30 years is not old at all.
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