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filo · New Member

if anyone cold suggest any would be of great help, i lived at an urban area and have roddent problems, and don't want to wake up any neightbor at night ..mine is a .177, thnks...

fritz · Silver Status Member

Erm, these are illegal in the US... 5-7 years in prison illegal.

But I can turn the other way if your just shooting pigeons or targets. I'm going to try to make on for my Diana 34.

My guess on where to start is to remove the barrel, thread about 3/8" on the end of it (the barrel measures about 5'8" in diameter before threading). Now to make the supressor you need to erm... make one... can't help you much there, but I have an idea.

Weld some 1" washers together and thread them on the inside so it will screw onto your barrel. Weld a tube onto the washers so it's like a muzzle break. Find a way to attach another washer inside about 5" from the muzzle. Then attach another one right on the end to close it all up. Spray paint black or camo.

REMEMBER THAT DOING WHAT I DESCRIBED IS ILLEGAL IN THE UNITED STATES!!! IF YOU ARE CAUGHT WITH ONE YOU MAY BE SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR 5-7 YEARS AND FINED SEVERELY. Or get a class 3 FFL and you can own ONE. With the class 3 ffl you can also own a machine gun.

kanyon · Silver Status Member

lauchlin · Supporting Member

Most of the noises on a spring gun is mechanical silencers on a spring gun is a waste of time ....................

cw · Banned

Lauchlin is right. I tried to quiet my Patriot down with a moderator,
but discovered that most of the sound is coming from the loading
lever slot in the forstock.

broommaster2000 · Moderator

Only one solution: a nice and fat spring tune! Mr. Green

I think the Venom kit will suffice.

Alstone · Moderator & Site Supporter

I'm afraid I have to disagree with you guys regarding suppressers on spring guns, below is a sound chart for a AA Tx 200 without silencer, with AA silencer and My designed mini silencer.

As you can see the difference is considerable and this is running at 11.3 lbs,
with it set up to 16 lbs (FAC) the reduction is even more.

All UK springers used for hunting are now fitted with silencers, the noise from the action only travels a short distance but the muzzle blast travels considerably further, this difference is even more on a carbine

Al.

cw · Banned

Interesting. I stand (or rather sit) corrected. My only
experience at quieting a springer is with the Patriot. It
made some difference, but there was still a lot of noise
coming from the loading lever slot. I'm sure that some of
it was radiating from the action and stock as well.

I think that if I don't have to acquire another permit for it,
I will expirement with one for the B26.

AirGunEric · Site Admin

I would think on a Co2-powered gun that has even just a bit of excess Co2 leaving the barrel a silencer would have a dramatic effect- even more so than Al's data with them on springers.

Alstone · Moderator & Site Supporter

Your right there Eric, Co2 guns definitely benefit from a suppressor more so pistols and carbines, I would say they are about on par with PCP guns regarding silencers.

Mind you regarding springers, pistols under about 6 flb usually don’t benefit from a silencer, nor do rifles under 9flb, there again it does depend on the gun, some of the Chinese B series springers have more action noise than the muzzle blast.

Al

AirGunEric · Site Admin

Slavia · Moderator

lauchlin · Supporting Member

I stand by what i said a silencer is a waste of time on a springer .

Slavia · Moderator

I don't know, it might be possible to "silence" a springer. Now that I have my G1 smoothed out, I can hear a "pop" when I shoot it. My belief is that the pop was always there; I just couldn't hear it before tuning out some of the action noise. I suppose the effectiveness of a silencer would depend on the amount of action noise in a particular gun.

Alstone's point about power level is also well taken. The G1 I mentioned above is shooting at about 15 FPE. My Slavia 631 shoots at about 7 FPE, and the sound of the pellet hitting the backstop is louder than the gun. I can't see a silencer really doing anything in that case.

But then it doesn't really matter, since I live in the U.S.A. where the government views silencers as a fund raiser. If I had the $200 I'd prefer to put it away towards a Condor, noise and all.

AirGunEric · Site Admin

I dunno, a 15fpe Crosman Quest (.177 cal) spits out a pretty good crack if even the slightest amount of flammable lubricant gets near the chamber- I think a silencer would absolutely make such a rifle quieter. We could argue that the detonation that causes a louder than normal crack is not "proper"- but nonetheless, on the rare occasion where is presents itself- it is still there, and it is noise. Even without a dieseling effect- this rifle is fairly loud out the muzzle when it shoots.