HotGuns
10-26-2010, 11:28 AM
Some of you have read the thread about the The .50 Hushpuppy built by Delta Company Firearms LLC. This thread expands on that one somewhat.
I am designing a suppressor for the .50 Huspuppy and it will be built to handle cast bullets.
Most suppressor designs are suited for cast bullets because the suppressor acts a crud trap, catching any unburned power granules, bits and pieces of bullet lube and even lead particles. A lot of the newer designs built today are sealed units, so there really isn't a good way to go through them and clean them out, the recommended methods of soaking them and blowing them out with air will only work so long.
This suppressor uses a monolithic baffle stack. This means that everything is connected, the whole unit slides out at one piece. There are several advantages to this, if they suppressor gets really gunked up, the pieces tend to stick together and become almost impossible to remove, the gunk sort of "welds" everything together. Also, with contaminates moving at a high rate of speed, the clearances used to put all the parts together can knock them out of alignment, causing poor accuracy or even worse, a baffle strike with a bullet that could destroy the whole can.
The monolithic design, so far, has proved successful for shooting cast bullets. Some tricks are done to make the can easier to clean, after a long shooting session, you simple remove the front cap, slide the baffle stack out and rinse the whole assembly off. A wipe with a rag on the inside of the can itself and you're done. Of course, it is recommended to do this after every firing session to insure that things don't get out of control.
Shooting cast boolits through suppressors of any sort is a mess and generally not recommended by most, if not all manufacturers. Its a pity really, because cast bullets are cheap, as available as you want them to be and when bullet prices shoot through the roof due to hostile administrations, subverted governments, economic factors, the EPA or any of the other multitude of reasons,, use cast boolit guys can spend out money on primers and powder instead of bullets.:cbpour:
So far,it looks like I am on track. There are big calibers out there, that when run subsonic, will kill any thing that walks,crawls or swims with cast lead.
The cast boolit guys have sort of been left out by the suppressor manufacturers. Since I am an 07 Manufacturer, with an 02 SOT, I intend to correct that oversight. Of course there will be lots of trial and error and it may take awhile,but my goal is to develop a can that is fairly quiet, cast boolit user friendly and cheap enough so that you don't have to take another loan out to get one.
What'd' ya think about that? Let me know if you have any other ideas that could be beneficial, or even if its something you might be interested in. I'm all ears..
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I am designing a suppressor for the .50 Huspuppy and it will be built to handle cast bullets.
Most suppressor designs are suited for cast bullets because the suppressor acts a crud trap, catching any unburned power granules, bits and pieces of bullet lube and even lead particles. A lot of the newer designs built today are sealed units, so there really isn't a good way to go through them and clean them out, the recommended methods of soaking them and blowing them out with air will only work so long.
This suppressor uses a monolithic baffle stack. This means that everything is connected, the whole unit slides out at one piece. There are several advantages to this, if they suppressor gets really gunked up, the pieces tend to stick together and become almost impossible to remove, the gunk sort of "welds" everything together. Also, with contaminates moving at a high rate of speed, the clearances used to put all the parts together can knock them out of alignment, causing poor accuracy or even worse, a baffle strike with a bullet that could destroy the whole can.
The monolithic design, so far, has proved successful for shooting cast bullets. Some tricks are done to make the can easier to clean, after a long shooting session, you simple remove the front cap, slide the baffle stack out and rinse the whole assembly off. A wipe with a rag on the inside of the can itself and you're done. Of course, it is recommended to do this after every firing session to insure that things don't get out of control.
Shooting cast boolits through suppressors of any sort is a mess and generally not recommended by most, if not all manufacturers. Its a pity really, because cast bullets are cheap, as available as you want them to be and when bullet prices shoot through the roof due to hostile administrations, subverted governments, economic factors, the EPA or any of the other multitude of reasons,, use cast boolit guys can spend out money on primers and powder instead of bullets.:cbpour:
So far,it looks like I am on track. There are big calibers out there, that when run subsonic, will kill any thing that walks,crawls or swims with cast lead.
The cast boolit guys have sort of been left out by the suppressor manufacturers. Since I am an 07 Manufacturer, with an 02 SOT, I intend to correct that oversight. Of course there will be lots of trial and error and it may take awhile,but my goal is to develop a can that is fairly quiet, cast boolit user friendly and cheap enough so that you don't have to take another loan out to get one.
What'd' ya think about that? Let me know if you have any other ideas that could be beneficial, or even if its something you might be interested in. I'm all ears..
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