Suppressed vs Non-Suppressed Hunting

[Solm]

My only regret of buying a suppressor is that I didn't buy it sooner! I will never hunt without one now.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

If your mother/wife/uncle/whatever buys themself a new rifle (unthreaded) and asks you to teach them how to shoot it. You are going to hold your nose up at them and tell that peasant you don’t shoot with people that don’t have suppressors?

Yes

 

[medvedyt]

i wish our great supreme leader allow us to use silencer or moderator in his great wisdom but as of today still not an idea i see for the coming years ...

 

[IDHunt]

Since length is a drawback to hunting with a suppressor, do you all know of any integrally suppressed barrels that have enough accuracy for hunting?

 

[StupidLightweight]

Since length is a drawback to hunting with a suppressor, do you all know of any integrally suppressed barrels that have enough accuracy for hunting?

SWS Rifles In Texas built my integrally suppressed .22 Creed barrel (14 inches of rifling, 6 inches of can). I haven’t shot it enough to say it’s great for accuracy, but it’s plenty accurate for hunting. I love having a sub-16-inch barrel when adding a can. For a .223, I’d go 12 or 12.5 for rifling and be happy as a clam.

 

[Taudisio]

SWS Rifles In Texas built my integrally suppressed .22 Creed barrel (14 inches of rifling, 6 inches of can). I haven’t shot it enough to say it’s great for accuracy, but it’s plenty accurate for hunting. I love having a sub-16-inch barrel when adding a can. For a .223, I’d go 12 or 12.5 for rifling and be happy as a clam.

One stamp setup I presume?

 

[StupidLightweight]

One stamp setup I presume?

Just one is correct. Here’s a pic from their site.

 

[cuerro viejo]

If your mother/wife/uncle/whatever buys themself a new rifle (unthreaded) and asks you to teach them how to shoot it. You are going to hold your nose up at them and tell that peasant you don’t shoot with people that don’t have suppressors? If you say you would do so, that makes you an ass.

Yes, I would teach them with my suppressed rifles first, probably the 223. Not only because it’s suppressed but mapped and we can shot to extended yardage first day.

With that said anyone that’s going to ask you to teach them to shoot is going to ask you opinions on rifle and calibers first most of the time.

 

[IDHunt]

SWS Rifles In Texas built my integrally suppressed .22 Creed barrel (14 inches of rifling, 6 inches of can). I haven’t shot it enough to say it’s great for accuracy, but it’s plenty accurate for hunting. I love having a sub-16-inch barrel when adding a can. For a .223, I’d go 12 or 12.5 for rifling and be happy as a clam.

Any center fire rifle barrels?

 

[StupidLightweight]

Any center fire rifle barrels?

Mine is a .22 Creedmoor centerfire. They offer a ton of other centerfires.

 

[Bob L.]

Biggest takeaways I’ve noticed suppressed.
Less muzzle jump and easier to get back on target.
Less felt recoil.
Sounds like a crackling 22 with no ears in.
I am 45 now and am guilty of not wearing hearing protection in the heat of battle hunting and my hearing has suffered dramatically.
For ears and potential of follow up shots and/or potential of spooking the herd I don’t see going back.
I didn’t see a huge drop in velocity cutting the barrel down to accommodate and running the numbers to 800 to 1000 yards they are still good.

 

[wyosam]

I finally got around to picking up centerfire suppressors over the winter. I had started building everything shorter in planning for that, but shorter at the time meant 20”. Had a few years getting used to how handy they are at that length without a can. Put on can, now they felt long, felt barrel heavy (even with reflex can). Cut down a 6.5cm barrel I had from a donor to 16”. Much better, so now I’m cutting the others. At least my 338-284 anyway- my nice handing short range swamp gun turning into a still short range but 26.5” long beast definitely won’t work. Estimating it will go from being a 400 yard gun to about 300, which is a lot longer than I need for that one. Might leave my 7-08 Ackley at 20” to be my longer range rifle. Shooting lead from the CM would work further than I’d ever need, but with monos not so much.


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[wyosam]

First suppressed hunt experience yesterday- definitely nice. I was a skeptic, but I’d say I’m converted. Shot a black bear with 16” 6.5cm with raptor 6/3” reflex. Had planned on having axil ear buds in, but he came in before I was really ready and wasn’t going to hang around for much more screwing around on my part. Was my first shot with bare ears and it wasn’t bad at all. Quieter than I expected.


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