Adding a silencer, kinda mysterious? - shotguns

[neviander]

Awesome conversation in the first version of this thread. I didn't want to drift too far with it and make the thread 50 pages long, so here's the question, shotguns, silencer worthy?

I found this thread http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=371242 to be the most informative about it. Silencing buckshot seems strange enough, but I figure a subsonic 1 .oz slug could be even more devastating than a 230 grain one; from a short distance, anyway.

 

[Sam1911]

It can be done -- why not? Still a method of trying to slow and dissipate heat/energy from gasses as they escape from behind a wad cup or a slug wad, just the same as if the gas is escaping from behind a lead and copper bullet.

Pressures are lower in shotguns, usually, so the effects of the suppression may not be exactly the same as when silencing rifle rounds or some handgun rounds.

You're also dealing with a larger hole than most, so there's lots of gas escaping -- similar to the discussion in our recent thread touching on whether .45ACP was easier to suppress than 9mm.

Of course, you'd want to make sure your load is subsonic to be anything like "quiet." (It isn't going to be really quiet at all, of course.) Some buckshot is, some isn't. Slugs seem to be loaded well above the sonic threshold, usually, though I'm sure you can find subsonic ones around.

 

[Ranb]

In some places where the government is not trying to demonize mufflers, shotgun silencers are more acceptable it seems.
http://www.bigginhill.co.uk/hush.htm
http://www.saddleryandgunroom.co.uk/Gunroom/SG_Hushpower.htm

Ranb

 

[neviander]

WOW, those UK sites are great!

 

[crazy-mp]

I have 2 .410 suppressors right now they were designed for bolt action or single shot .410 rifles. Its nearly impossible to find factory sub-sonic loads for a shot gun, and if you reload your own shot shells you need to use cups not wads, the wads are known for opening up inside the suppressor.

The European is a somewhat effective method, but its like using one of the mini center fire cans, they cut down some of the noise but not all of it. I know there are at least 3 American manufacturers working on shot gun cans, mainly for the Saiga shotguns.

 

[rjrivero]

Link Here.