Originally Posted by bigcountry692001
Originally Posted by twaldrop4
Obviously I’m in the vast minority I’ll concede defeat. Still don’t see it for hunting the barrel length alone is enough to deter me. I could see it more for wing shooting rather than deer hunting. But obviously I am weird.
You can get rifles with a shorter barrel to accommodate a suppressor if that’s a con for you. Or you can get a suppressor that’s short in length. However, if you’re hunting from a climber or lock on I can see where that would be a concern. If you haven’t shot with one definitely try it out sometime if you the chance, it was night and day for me

And there are reflex suppressors in which a portion of the suppressor comes back over the barrel and the threaded part is somewhere near halfway in. This setup only adds approximately half the length of the suppressor to the overall length of the weapon. I have an OPS INC 3rd Model .30cal and that's the way all OPS cans were built. Ron Allen was the guy in charge at OPS and bought the rights from the original owner's wife, moved the operation out of California and now the same designs are built as Allen Engineering Suppressors/AE Suppressors. One caveat is that these are military grade suppressors and they're heavy. Mine was built while Ron was doing a run for Canadian Special Forces. If memory serves me correctly, they're all full auto rated. They have a very proprietary noise cancelling baffle system, based on sound wave science, for internals that was patented in the 1970s (I think).

Here it is showing the setup on a 300 BO

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Get the F out of the BATFE. The F is guaranteed by the US Constitution. Those other letters are not.

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