Improvised or homemade .22 suppressors

[308Mike]

Guys, let's try and get back on topic, please. We're a LONG ways from a suppressed .22 at this point.

[Highspeed]

An on-topic thread Mike ? when was the last time we had one of those ?

[jetfxr69]

Hey guys, did you see that Bear run by here with the suppressed suitcase nuke in the assault wheelbarrow?

[mekender]

Hey guys, did you see that Bear run by here with the suppressed suitcase nuke in the assault wheelbarrow?

yeah, he was trying to find out what caliber would be best of moose.

[Combat Controller]

Still, could make a dirty bomb with that fissile material....

[Mike OTDP]

Back to the OP....

If you are trying to build an illegal suppressor, don't. The ATF will be on your back like a ton of bricks. It's not that hard to do this legally. There are only about 10 states that prohibit ownership of suppressors.

If you are trying to build a suppressor legally, try the ATF web site and download the appropriate forms to build a suppressor. Get those approved FIRST unless you fancy Leavenworth Penitentiary as a home address. Then head over to the Paladin Press website and start rummaging for books.

Now, if you are just interested in how a can works, I recommend Alan Paulson's book "Silencer History & Performance, volume 1". It's probably the best published work...although courses in boundary layer theory and heat transfer would also be enlightening.

And if you want a suppressor to shoot, try one of the established makers, buy one legally. They can do a better job than you can in your home workshop. Loads of fun.

[Weetabix]

Speaking of Clancy, didn't John Kelly make a suppressor in Without Remorse?

[rightisright]

Speaking of Clancy, didn't John Kelly make a suppressor in Without Remorse?

I think that's the book. I remember something about him being on an island when he made it.

[SeekHer]

SeekHer - great list. A few of the guerilla books aren't good though.

The H and K full auto book describes a conversion which is inherently unsafe. I'll not describe why though.
The 10\22 conversion seems sensible but it doesn't work properly in practise. Again I don't think it would be within forum rules to explain myself.
The Homemade Guns and Ammo book contains both stuff which won't work properly and stuff which is dangerous.

I got lambasted at another Forum for submitting my "Sniper Booklist" being told that I got it all from Google etc.

My retort was that I'd been collecting books for nearly 45 years (since I started shooting competitively) and just try to amass that collection from Google, I even dared them and got no takers but I added this:

They are presented for your edification…To pick and choose which are good, bad or indifferent imparts my bias to the equation; some of them are pure crap and other are a pure joy but from each and every one I’ve learned something, albeit small, insignificant and usually mundane, but something nonetheless…

Not being a LEO I’ll not comment on any of the police sniper books for tactics etc as I’m not familiar with them and any other countries military usage of sniper’s I can only read about…my countries and Israel’s snipers I can deal with first hand as I know them and in the latter case survived them…

The same applies to any other booklist that I’ve submitted…The gunsmithing ones on Guerrilla work I’ve never undertaken and don’t know if they are valid, effective or pure cow poopoo and my friends, who actually have the books, bought them for “knowledge & entertainment purposes only”…

My total catalogue of all of our outdoor & firearm books is about 9,500 volumes of which I had over 5,400 in my own personal library with the balance amongst the other members of the “Insane Shooters gun club” have on their shelves…Some volumes have 40 or 50 copies scattered amongst us and others just one…

I appreciate your input regarding the safety issued and will notify my friends about them, not that they’d make any of those illegal arms in the first place…It’s also one reason that I’ll almost never submit a cartridge loading to the forum—I know they work good in my guns but I don’t know your guns and the stress they can take—I really don’t want the ramifications of having your gun blow up because of something I gave you to try…

[308Mike]

Speaking of Clancy, didn't John Kelly make a suppressor in Without Remorse?

I think that's the book. I remember something about him being on an island when he made it.

Was that the part where he had that drug dealer in the decompression chamber and was bouncing him up and down depth-wise? That was a GREAT book (even if it was over 600 pages)!