Anyone hunt with a suppressor?

[Rembrandt]

Europe is big on hunting with suppressors, wondered if anyone here hunts with one....caliber?.....what game?

 

[earlthegoat2]

It is a common thing with feral hog hunters. Especially if hunting at night. No muzzle flash and won’t wake up the neighbors.

Calibers range from 223 to 450 BM usually in an AR rifle.

Plenty use one for deer hunting too just to save their own ears. Any and all cartridges will be seen. Usually the lower powder capacity ones will allow the suppressor to do it’s job better.

Then there is subsonic ammo....

 

[glockgod]

Haven't YET. September 1 is opening day of squirrel season. Will be hunting with a suppressed 22 when I'm not using the shotgun

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Thinking hard about starting a "deer abatement company" using a .45 Bushmaster rifle, with special handloads, and suppressed. Where I live there a lots of deer in the "no hunting zone" but the DNR does allow companies to come in and thin the herd.

LD

 

[Nlvmike]

I use a suppressor for most of my hunting. Yotes and other predators with a .223 or 300 blackout, suppressed. I shoot hundreds of ground squirrels out in the alfalfa fields of northern NV, and having a suppressor on a .17HMR makes the day a lot more comfortable.

 

[jmorris]

I use them a lot on hogs except for one I shot a few weeks ago with the ‘farm’ 30-30 and the one last night I got with the ‘farm’ .22 the last 90 or so have been shot using a suppressor. 308, 458 Socom, 9mm, 22lr, 300blk and 450 BM

 

[earlthegoat2]

I generally use longer barrels on my hunting rifles. Suppressors really start reducing sound to the shooter with shorter barrels that would normally have muzzle brakes like are often found on the AR variants of hunting rifles. I have found that a 20” barrel on a 44 mag rifle or an 18” on a 450 BM is not loud enough to bother me while hunting. I also do not use muzzle devices.

However, short barrels and suppressors used in concert are very handy, capable, and quiet. The suppressor lends itself well to a shorter barrel as the suppressor itself can be quite lengthy.

 

[jmorris]

Even on 26” barrels there is a difference to me. The supersonic bullet going down range makes more noise.



Unless your subsonic and running a semiauto.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

Yep, hogs, coyotes, and other varmints.

 

[FL-NC]

Yes- deer and hogs mostly (308, 223, 300 BLK). I also have one for a 22 to deal with pests around the house. This morning I turkey hunted with my suppressed 300 BLK (legal on private land in Fl). I chose the 300 BLK over the shotgun mainly due to the infestation of coyotes and pigs in the area- if I encountered one of these, I wanted something better than #4's.

 

[marksman13]

Yep. Deer, pigs, coyotes, squirrels and other varmints with everything from 22LR to 300 Win Mag.

 

[Masonlaw1]

300 BLK with Barnes 110 TacX

 

[redneck2]

Used to be illegal to hunt with a suppressor in Indiana. Not sure now

 

[der Teufel]

Hunting for hogs and/or coyotes —

 

[mavracer]

I haven't gone since I got my stamp but my daughter went deer hunting and took thus 5.56 with a Griffin Optimus Micro.

 

[TEXASJD]

On every rifle I can screw one on! 308 300blk 223 204 222 250AI 30Nosler deer hogs varmints.

 

[ICE1210]

I hunt White Tail Deer with ARs in .300 blk, 308, and 6.8 using an Atlantic Coast Machine titanium can.