L. I. B. Danged!

[Bill in Oregon]

Never would have thought ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eldDP1OQ-nc

[marlinman93]

Seems like an odd thing to try to silence. Most people don't use a silencer on a revolver since the cylinder to forcing cone gap will allow noise to escape no matter how good the silencer is. Probably why it didn't see production. A good silenced semiauto .22 would be much more effective.

[Lastmohecken]

I remember that it's been said that you couldn't make a silencer work on a revolver because of the cylinder gap. I still seemed loud in the video, but they were shooting it inside, and that would have made it sound louder than outside on the range, etc. I figure they were using high speed long rifle ammo. But I bet if one was to load it with shorts, or subsonic's, it would be fairly quit.

[AJMD429]

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I remember when Jerry Miculek put out a 'Covid Cabin Fever' video - He decided to entertain himself and his viewers by rounding up a bunch of expired canned goods from his garage and taking him out back and shooting them. So here we have a world class competitive shooter who's doing the same kind of redneck hillbilly stuff the rest of us do. I thought that was pretty cool.

[gamekeeper]

I always assumed that the Nagant revolver was the only revolver that could be suppressed although Hollywood disagreed, perhaps for once they were correct

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[Bill in Oregon]

Revolvers with silencers always seemed to me to be a hilarious gaffe, but the Nagant has me scratching my head, due to the revolver's unusual lockup and case design. I'd love to see actual decibel numbers. I owned a couple back in the golden age of surplus and wish I still had one.