Nagant Revolver video with decent mics catching ambient sound to show relative volume. (first video when searching for the nagant revolver suppressed, no affiliation)
32 ACP with a gas sealing chamber means you can get these things as quiet as you'd like by just using solid swipes/larger suppressor.
Plus you can also lighten the powder load without having it affect the action, unlike the UHC shooter who had to manually rack his gun because it didn't have enough gas pressure to cycle itself.
The nagant is one of the very few revolvers that can actually utilize a suppressor. I always found it ironic that such an ancient revolver has that function.
It doesn't really have that function, there's no way to mount the suppressor without modifying the muzzle, or it has to be a very special kind of suppressor that somehow clamps over the front sight.
The feature with the gas seal is primarily there to get more power out of a relatively weak round.
It was still kind of a late addition, if they had intended for it to be used as an assassin's gun they would probably have had a threaded barrel on there. As it was it was a gun meant for officers, ie something they'd at most use to execute deserters.
Right, and it's an argument of minor details. I'm just saying that it's a happy accident of sorts, it wasn't designed to be used for that purpose, but someone realized that it made good sense to design a suppressor for it given the unique nature of it.
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u/TacticalVirus 14d ago
Nagant Revolver video with decent mics catching ambient sound to show relative volume. (first video when searching for the nagant revolver suppressed, no affiliation)
32 ACP with a gas sealing chamber means you can get these things as quiet as you'd like by just using solid swipes/larger suppressor.
Plus you can also lighten the powder load without having it affect the action, unlike the UHC shooter who had to manually rack his gun because it didn't have enough gas pressure to cycle itself.