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Airsoft Hardware => Accessories & Gear => Topic started by: Ares on May 31, 2006, 12:14:00 AM

Title: silencers, useful or useless?
Post by: Ares on May 31, 2006, 12:14:00 AM

Silencers seem to be a hot item amongst airsofters... but why? I think they're useless for airsoft and only make your weapon longer.

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Post by: Firehead on May 31, 2006, 12:23:35 AM

Supressors do quiet the muzzle report from AEGs, but just slightly. Some people like to run their barrel to the end of the weapon, for whatever reason(why not just get a longer gun?). Sometimes, they just look fuckin' cool! I have never owned a supressor for any of my guns, ever.

Title: silencers
Post by: Ares on May 31, 2006, 12:27:59 AM

i bought my gun used, it's an M4 that had an M16 barrel with a silencer to cover the end. I bought an M4 6.03 (363mm long) from mad bull and a standard flash supressor and it works just as well as the systema M16 6.03 (509mm long). I honestly think it looks better without the silencer and now my gun is 6 inches shorter... if only i could do something about the fixed stock....

Title: Re: silencers
Post by: Firehead on May 31, 2006, 12:29:47 AM

Quote from: "bassick1"

I honestly think it looks better without the silencer and now my gun is 6 inches shorter...

Well, some people think they look cooler, its personal preference.

Quote from: "bassick1"

if only i cound do something about the fixed stock....

Stop being lazy, and do something about it.

Title: silencers
Post by: Ares on May 31, 2006, 12:33:19 AM

alot has to do with personal preference with airsoft. of course, i'm not here to bash a preference, i was just wondering if there were more reasons people had besides looks?

i never thought it would really silence an airsoft anyway... being that most of the sound comes from the reciever from the motor and the piston

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Post by: warlock on May 31, 2006, 12:01:55 PM

If you silence the receiver portion (using any of a variety of methods...) then an actual foam-packed silencer will take what little remains of the gun's report away.

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Post by: sdobbins on June 01, 2006, 08:02:41 PM

I used to be a airsoft silencer skeptic for aegs... that all changed when my buddy bought a p90 tr and showed me the difference between them, even from 10 feet away there was a definate sound reduction.

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Post by: Raith on June 01, 2006, 09:39:17 PM

I think that aesthetics/cosmetics play a larger role in why people put suppressors on their weapons than actual decible reduction.  Nothing wrong with that.