silencers on spudguns

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Tue Mar 31, 2009 9:41 am

With springers though you don't really get much muzzle blast, it's more a question of the piston slamming against the cylinder - commercial PCPs with a proper silencer tend to be actually silent, with springers no matter how good the silencer there always is more noise.
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Tue Mar 31, 2009 9:49 am

Regardless, it still worked damn good for a pen in a pen.
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