Who Hunts Using Suppressed Guns?

[omicron1792]

May have issues

What kind of issues?

 

[Mudguts83]

I plan to. Got the cash saved for the milling. Will need to save a bit more for the suppressor. I don't hike with earmuffs and the in-ears (that I've bought) don't seem to do the trick. I don't want to be deaf by 60, so a 1k bucks for prevention will end up being worth it.

 

[sandhillhunter]

If you think suppressors are expensive, try $8,000 for hearing aids every few years. I got hearing aids at age 50 after years of hunting (waterfowl, upland, and big game) without ear pro. (I realize you don’t have to spend $8k but i have bad tinnitus and the newer technology is supposed to be better at helping it). And i saw my dad practically deaf at 65 even with hearing aids and i wanted to try and prevent that.

Once I started realizing I had a problem, i began wearing hearing protection for everything- including shop and yard tools, and double ear pro for range time.

But, due to the cumulative nature of hearing loss, it was too late.

Now I have a couple of suppressors and don’t think I’ll ever shoot a center fire rifle without one again unless my life depends on it.


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[streamerfish]

I’d keep the $350 swfa and go factory on all the rest if it was the difference between suppressor or not.

yeah.....I will see how it goes when i get to shooting with the SWFA. I would like one, especially after being at UM and they took shot a couple rounds with one on for me to hear. It seemed like a pretty significant difference to me.

 

[cams]

+1 for hunting suppressed.
Found it helpful to teach my kids rifle shooting suppressed. Easy transition to hunting, they can concentrate on the trigger press and not worry about a loud bang.
Can be a huge pain hiking around brush with a suppressed rifle though.

 

[Kimber7man]

I’m glad I didn’t suppress the rock and roll music of the 80s.

A lot of you guys missed that
And that’s a shame

2nd row at the 1984 tour in Indy, my ears rang for almost a week….

 

[Traveler]

Definitely a luxury item, not a must have

 

[GunsAreFun]

I do for the first time this year and will NEVER go back.

The protection for my ears is worth the money and weight. My hunting style is too dynamic and short range to pop ear pro in. Usually only have a couple seconds to react.

 

[Old Hickory 45]

Congrats. Looks like you got an AB A10?
Great can. I love mine on my 223.

I don’t know anybody who owns a suppressor who then chooses to not use it.
I know plenty of people who don’t own one, and will make up plenty of excuses for why they don’t need one. Then once they get their first can, all those excuses go out the window.

Yes, that is what I have. And yeah on what you said.

 

[RockAndSage]

I’m glad I didn’t suppress the rock and roll music of the 80s.

A lot of you guys missed that
And that’s a shame

My ears ring in stratocaster and M-60...

 

[WRO]

Definitely a luxury item, not a must have

I disagree, I’m at the point that I don’t even want to hunt with others that don’t run them.


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[dr.mooseknuckles]

First year hunting suppressed for me and I can't say I'd want to go back.
killed one white tail doe this year unsuppressed with my old .270 for nostalgia, but I was in a blind and slipped on ear muffs real quick. Still rocked the shooting house like a gong (shooting house is a repurposed garbage dumpster, courtesy of the US Government and Fort Benning)

 

[Slickhill]

I do both. Have had a silencer for close to a decade now. Use it for the majority of my varmint and pig hunting. My kid uses it on his BG rifle for deer and elk season. It’s nice and I feel it helps with getting multiple opportunities when calling coyotes and confuses pigs giving a little more time to kill more before they hit the brush.

But I still have plenty of classic hunting rifles that I’m not cutting and threading. I often bird hunt with double shotguns and even on single barrels putting a big shotgun can on is bound to make for a shitty handling and pointing gun. I have and shoot regularly an extensive collection of revolvers, no way to put one on them and I wouldn’t dream of butchering any of my old S&Ws anyway.

There is a time and place for many things in the shooting/hunting hobby and very few absolutes.

 

[jhirschhorn]

Love using suppressors but if I am only going to be shooting a few of times, and hiking miles with a gun on my pack or in my hands I opt to leave it at home. The extra weight and length do not make sense to me, and I have no issue with the extra recoil.

If I am shooting a bunch, or hunting from a blind I will always use a suppressor. There is a time and place for them.

 

[WoodlandCritter]

I do both. Have had a silencer for close to a decade now. Use it for the majority of my varmint and pig hunting. My kid uses it on his BG rifle for deer and elk season. It’s nice and I feel it helps with getting multiple opportunities when calling coyotes and confuses pigs giving a little more time to kill more before they hit the brush.

But I still have plenty of classic hunting rifles that I’m not cutting and threading. I often bird hunt with double shotguns and even on single barrels putting a big shotgun can on is bound to make for a shitty handling and pointing gun. I have and shoot regularly an extensive collection of revolvers, no way to put one on them and I wouldn’t dream of butchering any of my old S&Ws anyway.

There is a time and place for many things in the shooting/hunting hobby and very few absolutes.

You'd be pretty disappointed with a suppressor on your S&Ws even if you did put one on. Cylinder gap means they don't work on any revolvers besides the 1895 Nagant.

 

[wind gypsy]

I rarely shoot or hunt without a suppressor anymore but it's hardly a must have for the casual hunter who shoots less than 50 rounds a year at the range and single digits at game.

One of those things that after you get used to them it's less fun going without.

 

[Pilsner]

I don't own one. I see the benefits. But everything costs money, and Lets see....$750 gun, $350 scope, another $900 for scope coming this fall, $400 stock, base and rings...reloading supplies....etc, etc,etc, etc,...Lord.....

Not in the cards anytime soon. Unless there is a lightweight, short, effective one out there for a couple hundred bucks.

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[North of 60]

As short and light as the Ti cans compared to steel ones 10 yrs ago, i can't see not using a suppressor.

And if $ was that tight, i'd sell a rifle to get one if i had to for benefits of suppressed shooting.

 

[Judd]

I've got a pretty good opportunity to go on a coues deer hunt in Mexico...the main thing holding me back is I'm getting to the point where if I can't hunt suppressed, I don't need to be hunting there. So yes, I hunt suppressed and really don't have much appetite for hunting without one.