I see Outdoor Life just released a giant suppressor test, worth the watch plus they have all the results, of the 149-ish cans/brakes they tested… seemed pretty neutral and didn’t feel as they pushed one brand or another.
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Awesome thanks.
They also introduced a new brand of suppressors aswell
Awesome content. Thought Airlock crushed it. Wasn’t the quietest can or lightest but was also 3-4 inches shorter than the cans ranked ahead of it and still incredibly light..
What stood out to you guys?
I was surprised by tenant suppressors as I’ve never heard of them, and there not on the silencer shop website.
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Couple of other things I did found interesting were that all readings seemed higher overall because they were testing at muzzle instead of shooters ear. If they do a follow up or continuation, I think shooters ear would be a more valuable metric to most of us because that’s where your head is going to be, not next to the muzzle.
There was also an interesting comment made about recoil reduction, “Some of the suppressor-brake combos that ended up with a higher recoil value shoot flatter and are less disruptive than others that did better in our test. From the shooter’s perspective, recoil only matters to the extent that it throws off our sight picture — or not. A softer-recoiling system (as measured in this test) might have more barrel whip than a suppressor that did “worse.” Just because some cans have lower recoil values doesn’t mean its recoil as experienced by the shooter is necessarily superior”
In this video they talk about why they turned away from the shooters ear metric. This the guy who runs the suppressor test.
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Hmm thinking out loud…because I do really like that they are trying to do an apples to apples comparison. I’m just wondering how you standardize the test to account for db differences at muzzle vs shooters ear.
When TBAC tested the Magnus S and Magnus S RR (Suppressor + brake) at their summit a couple of years ago, the RR was 1 dB quieter at muzzle than Magnus S and 12 dB louder at shooters ear. Which is the complete opposite of what one would expect it to be. Don’t know where I’m going with this, I do really like what they are trying to do. I like that every suppressor was treated the same, I just wonder if they will eventually have to move to some sort of phased testing.
Recoil testing is standardized this way with the bench, but we know it gets in the way for shooters ear reading consistency, so the next phase will be shot off a tripod or whatever setup works and will give you a more accurate numbers while also being fair to all those being tested. Idk, again just spitballing a bit.
The only way to get true results is to do the test in a soundproof room on a tripod so the noise can’t bounce off a table or other objects like that is the only way I could see getting accurate shooters ear decibel ratings and consistently
I guess it would of been nice if they ran two mic’s one at the stock roughly where the shooters ear would be and one at the muzzle, and record what the Db were, I don’t think a sound proof box.. is that important as 99.9% are shooting just like them in the woods… must say that gun they used sure took some rounds
They said in a couple subsequent videos (one from Tenent and one from Joesph Ewing) that they had to push the mic away from the shooters ear because they were getting interference from the bench.
Im partial to Banish Backcountry thats what im running on my rifles
Yeah, one of the big things everyone’s been talking about with suppressor testing is that the Db varies based upon so many different factors. Shooting off the ground prone will give you one number, shooting sitting on a bench will give you another number, shooting standing on a tripod will give you yet again another number. If you’re inside a hunting blind yet again the number will be different.
Which is why it would be nice if the group could get together and come up with an absolute standard of testing