Did you notice any difference after cleaning your suppressor?

[MuleyFever]

After cleaning it did you notice any change in accuracy, POI, sound or anything?

 

[TK-421]

How many ounces of carbon do you have built up?

 

[MuleyFever]

Dont know. I was just thinking about if I should clean it. I have around 300 rounds through it with a 20" 7 SAUM and 7 PRC.

 

[deerhunter628]

Mine was a little more than an ounce lighter. Thats all i noticed.

 

[TK-421]

Dont know. I was just thinking about if I should clean it. I have around 300 rounds through it with a 20" 7 SAUM and 7 PRC.

Not even close. Go weigh it. Once you have 1.5 -2 ounces more than now, then clean it.

 

[justin davis]

What suppressor? Center fire cans generally don’t need cleaning

 

[TxLite]

Dont know. I was just thinking about if I should clean it. I have around 300 rounds through it with a 20" 7 SAUM and 7 PRC.

Like @justin davis said, center fire cans are considered self cleaning. 300 rounds wouldn’t even be on my radar. However, Silencerco told me to mag dump 556 in my hybrid and specwar to get them hot enough to clean them if I felt they needed cleaning. I think if you are shooting enough rounds consecutively with your saum or prc it should get hot enough to burn out any buildup

 

[Ucsdryder]

Sound will change for the first couple shots. If I don’t clean mine carbon flakes will start falling into the action. It’s bad enough that I couldn’t chamber a round on a hunt 3 years ago. Now I clean it in October before the first hunt. I have a tbac and cleaning it couldn’t be easier. Fill with CLR and rinse with hot water. Done.

 

[TK-421]

Centerfire cans do knock out some loose build-up, but they are not truly self cleaning. The recommendation, at least from TBAC is to clean once you have 2-3 ounces of build-up. The 2-3 oz number is a product of TBAC cleaning a bunch of cans and determining that larger amounts of build-up is just harder to clean. That's it.

There's plenty of suppressor owners that will never shoot enough to even clean a suppressor one time, but centerfire suppressors still can benefit from cleaning if you are shooting enough. The volume of carbon build-up is just that much volume that cannot be used to attenuate the noise.

 

[83cj-7]

A couple years back I finally cleaned my Surefire .30 cal suppressor. It was supposed to weight 19oz and it weighed 25oz when I decided to clean it. The can was much quieter after cleaning it. I don’t know the exact round count through it to get it that dirty, but since several barrels were shot out with it, I’d guess 4-5 thousand rounds.

 

[DangerRanger]

Was wondering about this.

I need to clean my can, weighed it the other day and we are at 3 ounces. I sure hope it doesn’t poi shift but I do expect it will be a few db louder for a couple rounds.