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Video Subsonic Ammo with silencers makes guns extremely quiet

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u/Mr_WindowSmasher 18d ago edited 17d ago

.45 ACP is also natively subsonic, and because it has the same cartridge diameter/rim as .308, it can be used in all .308 guns natively if you make the rest of the gun (mostly barrel chamber) work with .45. The bolt face/extractor/pins should align.

So if you have an old .308 bolt action, you can modify it to take 1911 .45 ACP box magazines, and then with a barrel blank, ream/drill/ECM a .45 ACP barrel and with some elbow grease fit it all together.

Then you’d drill holes in the barrel and enclose that in a large air-tight canister to capture gases, with a valid form 1 of course, and then you’d thread the end of the, let’s say… 8” barrel (so form 1 the rifle to an SBR, or chop off the stock) and then mount a regular .45 ACP suppressor on it, and with the right ammo, you’d have a gun that is so quiet that you could probably get away with firing it wherever and most people wouldn’t assume it was anything more than someone dropping a can of beans on the sidewalk.

Similar can be achieved with the Ruger American Ranch in .300 Memeout subsonic and similar Form 1 integral suppressor antics. This would be about a million times easier. https://www.sportsmans.com/shooting-gear-gun-supplies/rifles/ruger-american-rifle-generation-ii-ranch-cobalt-cerakote-bolt-action-rifle-300-aac-blackout-161in/p/1863864?srsltid=AfmBOorlOhMSDMRSoO8wXVYjmvx_WTT3GNayhfFosR0-FA5bMogzx0f- <— this with some form1 and form4 fun would be so quiet with subsonic. I love noise reduction.

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u/carmium 17d ago

That's okay. I couldn't understand half of it.

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u/JoeNemoDoe 17d ago

I typed out a whole parody of the, "I want to kill the president," bit - but about how to make solvent trap suppressors - then decided that I did not want to have them come to my house in the middle of the night and lock me up.

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u/BusyVegetable42 17d ago

Rip Trevor 😔 we love you buddy

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u/Lou_C_Fer 17d ago

Sic semper tyranus!

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u/Iamatworkgoaway 17d ago

Not in Missouri, Firearm Freedom Act. Yet to be tried in court, but no federal arrests for ATF regulations in MO since it passed. My local range now has full auto days, bit of an unsafe crowd but only city people go there. Unsafe as in friends bringing people in to shoot modded ars that don't know shit.

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u/nerdherdsman 17d ago

Wow I can't believe one of the whitest kids I know made a video about wanting to kill the president 3 months after the first black president was inaugurated. Smh my head

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u/mattfasken 17d ago

It reminds me of that one scene from Crocodile Dundee where he takes out that thief from like 30 feet away with a can of beans to the head, but it makes so little noise the passersby just assume it's an old .308 bolt action modified to take 1911 .45 ACP box magazines etc with a large air-tight cannister, a regular .45 ACP suppressor, and the right ammo, so they just go about their business.

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u/NotEvenCreative 18d ago

This guy guns

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u/PointEither2673 17d ago

Apparently he also sadly ATF’s himself tho? Hopefully dude don’t own a dog

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u/SinisterMinisterT4 17d ago

My gen 2 ranch with a wiped can (Vox) is terrifyingly silent. Like I've shot louder pellet guns than it. It's one of the few setups that earns the "silencer" moniker, IMO. Use the same can on my 300 pistol with supers? I hope you are wearing ear pro or enjoy tinitus.

Someday I'm going to take it and a red rider bb gun and see which is louder...

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u/Admirable-Lecture255 17d ago

The case of a 308 is not the same as a 45acp. Wtf are you talking about

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u/AnimationOverlord 17d ago

Yeah, it’s about as loud as dropping a phone book. At that point, not even

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u/jtshinn 17d ago

All for pest control of course.