SilencerCo Scythe Ti failures

[glock233]

It’s crazy. I shot mine so much it melted the LS wild cover to the silencer and it hasn’t blown up. At this point I just be pushing a few thousand rounds through it. I guess it could blow up at any minute.

Unfortunately the relatively few failures are more meaningful than the products that work. “I didn’t wear a seatbelt on the commute and nothing bad happened” doesn’t mean much. Ask the guy in a bad car crash whether seatbelts are good.

To me it looks like they have a high failure rate, probably from a high rate of manufacturing defects.

 

[BAKPAKR]

It’s crazy. I shot mine so much it melted the LS wild cover to the silencer and it hasn’t blown up. At this point I just be pushing a few thousand rounds through it. I guess it could blow up at any minute.

Maybe that melted LS Wild cover is holding it together.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

Unfortunately the relatively few failures are more meaningful than the products that work. “I didn’t wear a seatbelt on the commute and nothing bad happened” doesn’t mean much. Ask the guy in a bad car crash whether seatbelts are good.

To me it looks like they have a high failure rate, probably from a high rate of manufacturing defects.

Absolutely, and I don’t trust the silencer. It just seems odd to me that so many blow up when they are relatively new and when I’ve tried to make mine blow up, nothing happens.

Again, not defending the product or the company. Like you said though, when people have a bad experience they talk about it all over the place. When people have a good experience they don’t talk about it as much. I know several people with scythes who love them, I have no idea how much they are shooting or what they are shooting them on though and I don’t really sit around with those people and talk about the scythe in general.

 

[HuntHarder]

It’s crazy. I shot mine so much it melted the LS wild cover to the silencer and it hasn’t blown up. At this point I just be pushing a few thousand rounds through it. I guess it could blow up at any minute.

I'm starting to think you took a torch to that cover. There is no way your can got that hot and hasn't blown up yet.

Joking, I have never adhered to a firing schedule with mine. It's bound to blow up sooner or later. It's been hot, thats for sure. Hell, 15 rds and it's pretty damn hot.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

I'm starting to think you took a torch to that cover. There is no way your can got that hot and hasn't blown up yet.

Joking, I have never adhered to a firing schedule with mine. It's bound to blow up sooner or later. It's been hot, thats for sure. Hell, 15 rds and it's pretty damn hot.

Yeah that day I packed a few hundred rounds with me and hiked up a mountain where I had gongs set across the canyon on another mountain. I was all dialed in so just shooting. The only time I stopped was just to load more magazines. I forget how many rounds I shot but it was a lot. There’s still crap melted all over that scythe that I can’t get off, I can’t even feel it with my finger nail, it’s like part of the silencer now.

 

[Trackselk]

Anyone looking for a lightly used (223) Scythe ti? Mine hasn't blown up (yet). Seriously.

 

[dreadi]

Recently I saw SilencerCo responding to a FB post comment about the silencer. SilencerCo claimed that it's one of their best selling silencers. That gave me a reason to ask why they would say that amid all scuttlebutt. I was curious and went to one of my distributors to check inventory and they had over 2,000 of them in stock yesterday. Just one distributor. So I wonder...what are they basing that claim on?

 

[AZ Gator]

Recently I saw SilencerCo responding to a FB post comment about the silencer. SilencerCo claimed that it's one of their best selling silencers. That gave me a reason to ask why they would say that amid all scuttlebutt. I was curious and went to one of my distributors to check inventory and they had over 2,000 of them in stock yesterday. Just one distributor. So I wonder...what are they basing that claim on?

Maybe I’m misinterpreting your post, but I firmly believe the scythe is a top seller, not just for SiCo but also amongst competitors. Unless a distributor is poorly run, I wouldn’t imagine they would hold $2 million in inventory for one model from one company, unless it were a very popular item.

 

[Q_Sertorius]

Recently I saw SilencerCo responding to a FB post comment about the silencer. SilencerCo claimed that it's one of their best selling silencers. That gave me a reason to ask why they would say that amid all scuttlebutt. I was curious and went to one of my distributors to check inventory and they had over 2,000 of them in stock yesterday. Just one distributor. So I wonder...what are they basing that claim on?

I don’t think it is at all far-fetched to say that the Scythe Ti is one of their best-selling models. They are pushing it very heavily. They were offering significant retailer discounts last fall. They know about the failure rate, but they are banking on no one getting seriously hurt by a failure. If the Scythe TI was durable, it would easily be one of the top 5 suppressors on the market for at least 2024-2025. And for the average person who shoots a box of hunting ammo every decade, it’s probably never going to be an issue.

The advantage of having 30-40,000 of them out there is that when 300-400 of them fail, you have 29,700 to 39,600 people out there who will say, “mine works great! That guy must have done something wrong with his!”

Unless someone gets killed, blinded, or crippled by a Scythe Ti failure, they are going to keep flooding the market with them.

 

[Bluefish]

Recently I saw SilencerCo responding to a FB post comment about the silencer. SilencerCo claimed that it's one of their best selling silencers. That gave me a reason to ask why they would say that amid all scuttlebutt. I was curious and went to one of my distributors to check inventory and they had over 2,000 of them in stock yesterday. Just one distributor. So I wonder...what are they basing that claim on?

They have sold 25k+ of them. If they didn’t fail, it would be a great can, relatively small, light, quiet enough, and no restrictions. What’s the downside, yeah, some self disassemble. I expect if the failure rate stays below .5-1% it’s just cheaper to fix the failures. At say $800 per and 25k sold, that’s 20 million in sales. The math works until someone gets injured and takes them to court.

 

[DroptineNW]

You throw a recoil x on the end of a scythe ti and they are badass. But then again it’s a matter of when not if it blows up. For me the chance of it blowing up while hunting and not being able to reliably perform a follow up shot is the deal breaker for me. Therefore I just use mine on my target guns and if it blows up I’ll fafo lol

 

[dreadi]

My thought is, is it based on how many they have sold to distributors or is it based on how many are in the end user's possession? I don't know. To me it's just an interesting claim.

And yes, as if this posting the one distributor still has over 2,000 Scythe Ti in stock between the raw and black variants. My other distributors have none.

 

[HuntHarder]

My thought is, is it based on how many they have sold to distributors or is it based on how many are in the end user's possession? I don't know. To me it's just an interesting claim.

And yes, as if this posting the one distributor still has over 2,000 Scythe Ti in stock between the raw and black variants. My other distributors have none.

It has to be one of, if not the, best selling can of all time. Specs are great and the vast majority of owners will likely never experience a failure. Mine is now over 3k rounds, still no explosions yet. No rhyme or reason to them failing, that I can determine either. They have failed on big guns, little guns, 100 rds in 1000's of rounds in.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

they blocked me on Facebook for bringing it up on one of their posts.

 

[Marbles]

they blocked me on Facebook for bringing it up on one of their posts.

That is pathetic.

SiCo really shot themselves in the foot with how they handled.

Though I think a 0.3% catastrophic failure rate is unacceptable. If 3 out of every thousand mufflers blew apart under normal use we would see a lot more failures for all brands reported.