...it doesn't make it any quieter, really, nor did I expect it to (it IS an AK, and they're rather open when it comes to the gas system.)
All it did was make cleaning the corrosive salts out of the internals a real pain. Just thought I'd prevent anyone else from trying similar and wasting money or in my case, time. At least the QD mount serves quite well as a FH so the work wasn't for nothing, and it didn't take more than an hour to take the barrel out, thread it, and put it back in.
I used to think the gassing from a silenced AR15 was bad. This took that sort of thing to a whole new level.
All it did was make cleaning the corrosive salts out of the internals a real pain. Just thought I'd prevent anyone else from trying similar and wasting money or in my case, time. At least the QD mount serves quite well as a FH so the work wasn't for nothing, and it didn't take more than an hour to take the barrel out, thread it, and put it back in.
I used to think the gassing from a silenced AR15 was bad. This took that sort of thing to a whole new level.