Gtscotty
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Since there isn't much information out on the web about this can, now that I've had my Liberty Sovereign out to the range a few times I wanted to post a quick review.
BLUF: It's a nice light can with a few different attachment options, I really like it thus far.
After I got my Silencerco Saker several years ago, I realized that while I liked the Saker, it was really too heavy for activities like mountain hunting. Flash forward a few years, I had been planning on buying a TBA Ultra 7 (our local Wyoming manufacturer) to meet my needs for a lightweight hunting can, until I found a killer deal from Capitol Armory on Liberty's new Lightweight Ti can.
My check cashed on July 30th, stamp was approved on Dec 27, and the can was in my hand on January 13th. Not terrible, but not great.
The Sovereign is 12.7 oz ready to mount, and comes in the box with direct thread adapters in 1/2x28, 5/8x24 (installed in the pic) and a radial brake Liberty calls the LS1 brake.
To install either adapters, you just unscrew the hex protrusion on the DT adapter with a 1" wrench. Without an adapter installed, you can spin the can on to the LS1 brake. All mounts have a taper mating surface that does a good job of not loosening up in use.
At 7-1/8" long, and 1-5/8" in diameter, the Sovereign is very similar in size to my Saker 762. In firing both one after the other on my Kimber Montana and an AR, I'd say they sound very, very similar, with perhaps a slight advantage to the Saker. Given that those were the first rounds through the Sovereign, it may well be quieter once it gets fouled up a bit.
I gave the Sovereign a try on my RPR in 6.5 last weekend, and my Tikka CTR in .308 today, you'll have to forgive the groups, the wind was gusting 25-30 mph both days (par for the Wyoming winter), although from a better direction today.
On the whole, it didn't really impact group size, at least not in a negative way. I did find it interesting, that although the Sovereign is about 10 oz lighter than my Saker, the POI change on the RPR was almost identical.
I was really expecting the lighter Sovereign to cause less deflection and less POI change, that wasn't the case on the RPR, but it was on the CTR, where groups only really moved about 1.5" down. In addition to directly threading the Sovereign on, I also tried both the LS1 brake, and the sovereign mounted to the LS1 brake. In addition to being truly obnoxiously loud, the LS1 by itself moved the POI as much as the direct threaded Sovereign, and added another inch of downward shift when the Sovereign was mounted along with the LS1. I'll definitely be using this can direct threaded on this rifle. I shot three rounds at the top right target to make sure that after all the mount and can swapping, the POI came back to where it was originally, which it did.
Lastly, here's a pic of my CTR with the Sovereign mounted, the CTR is a bit chunky by itself, so the Sovereign pretty much disappears on the end. On the end of my Kimber Montana, the Sovereign is light enough that the rifle doesn't really feel bulky or off balance. I am planning on having the Kimber chopped to 20", I'll update this thread on how the Sovereign affects the POI on such a light rifle.
BLUF: It's a nice light can with a few different attachment options, I really like it thus far.
After I got my Silencerco Saker several years ago, I realized that while I liked the Saker, it was really too heavy for activities like mountain hunting. Flash forward a few years, I had been planning on buying a TBA Ultra 7 (our local Wyoming manufacturer) to meet my needs for a lightweight hunting can, until I found a killer deal from Capitol Armory on Liberty's new Lightweight Ti can.
My check cashed on July 30th, stamp was approved on Dec 27, and the can was in my hand on January 13th. Not terrible, but not great.
The Sovereign is 12.7 oz ready to mount, and comes in the box with direct thread adapters in 1/2x28, 5/8x24 (installed in the pic) and a radial brake Liberty calls the LS1 brake.
To install either adapters, you just unscrew the hex protrusion on the DT adapter with a 1" wrench. Without an adapter installed, you can spin the can on to the LS1 brake. All mounts have a taper mating surface that does a good job of not loosening up in use.
At 7-1/8" long, and 1-5/8" in diameter, the Sovereign is very similar in size to my Saker 762. In firing both one after the other on my Kimber Montana and an AR, I'd say they sound very, very similar, with perhaps a slight advantage to the Saker. Given that those were the first rounds through the Sovereign, it may well be quieter once it gets fouled up a bit.
I gave the Sovereign a try on my RPR in 6.5 last weekend, and my Tikka CTR in .308 today, you'll have to forgive the groups, the wind was gusting 25-30 mph both days (par for the Wyoming winter), although from a better direction today.
On the whole, it didn't really impact group size, at least not in a negative way. I did find it interesting, that although the Sovereign is about 10 oz lighter than my Saker, the POI change on the RPR was almost identical.
I was really expecting the lighter Sovereign to cause less deflection and less POI change, that wasn't the case on the RPR, but it was on the CTR, where groups only really moved about 1.5" down. In addition to directly threading the Sovereign on, I also tried both the LS1 brake, and the sovereign mounted to the LS1 brake. In addition to being truly obnoxiously loud, the LS1 by itself moved the POI as much as the direct threaded Sovereign, and added another inch of downward shift when the Sovereign was mounted along with the LS1. I'll definitely be using this can direct threaded on this rifle. I shot three rounds at the top right target to make sure that after all the mount and can swapping, the POI came back to where it was originally, which it did.
Lastly, here's a pic of my CTR with the Sovereign mounted, the CTR is a bit chunky by itself, so the Sovereign pretty much disappears on the end. On the end of my Kimber Montana, the Sovereign is light enough that the rifle doesn't really feel bulky or off balance. I am planning on having the Kimber chopped to 20", I'll update this thread on how the Sovereign affects the POI on such a light rifle.
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