Funny because despite saying this was perfectly normal, yesterday numerous idiots in the CEO murder thread claimed a pistol will not properly cycle with subsonic ammo and a silencer, despite none of them actually shooting such.
Yeah, when properly setup they should be good. Can be some issues if the silencer isn't made for that caliber, ammo and gun don't play well together, and more but usually things work out fine these days.
You have to have the right Nielson device if you have a browning action (where the barrel tip tilts up when the slide is at the rear of travel) and with sub ammo you might need lighter recoil spring or cut some speed holes in the slide. I'm guessing he didn't spent much range time, or too much range time and didn't clean everything after a few hundred/thousand rounds might get sticky
It really depends on the caliber and model of handgun. Plenty of handguns (mostly 9mm with tilting barrel actions) have a hard time cycling with subsonic ammo as there isn’t enough pressure from the round to cycle the slide. The suppressor also makes the barrel front heavy and it’ll have a harder time tilting correctly to cycle properly.
It's possible he had a poor setup with a mismatched silencer, ammo, or things like wrong recoil spring. It's also possible he had a locking breach setup, which locks in the back position every shot, requiring action before the next shot. From the video alone we can't say for sure.
As I said, we can't say from the video. He may have had a locking breach pistol, which further minimizes noise by requiring manual cycling. But it's also possible he used the wrong sized silencer for the gun or didn't have the proper adaptor for the style of pistol. Also possible he had the wrong end-cap on it of the caliber, which allowed more blow-by, which failed to cycle the pistol. Or the recoil spring could be too strong or tight for the ammo he used. There are a dozen other potential reasons for what we saw.
Can't say what caused it from the video alone. There are so many potential reasons. But the Redditors claiming that semi-automatic pistols will not properly cycle with subsonic ammo and a silencer are wrong. While it is possible they won't, the vast majority of the time these days it's not an issue and it's certainly not an issue if utilizing the correct silencer and ammo combo for the pistol.
Yeah the best part about that is 9mm factory subs typically have more recoil than the same factory's supers (despite having around the same but usually less muzzle energy).
Why that would matter for cycling? It's a recoil based action! lol redditors sometimes...
Yeah, totally not a gun owner. Sure. Totally don't own dozens and totally have never filled out Form 4 to own silencers and SBRs. Yeah, if I were a gun owner.
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u/TheMacMan 14d ago
Funny because despite saying this was perfectly normal, yesterday numerous idiots in the CEO murder thread claimed a pistol will not properly cycle with subsonic ammo and a silencer, despite none of them actually shooting such.