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05-26-2011, 11:12 AM | #1 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Austin, TX
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Silencers for shotguns?
Monster Hunters: Champions p 55 says silencers are available to all guns but revolvers, but High-Tech pp158-9 doesn't list silencers for shotguns. HT also says that bolt-actions are easier to silence than other actions. I know people make bolt-action shotguns (my dad has a bolt-action Mossberg)... So can a shotgun take a silencer or not?
From the suppressor types on HT159, I'd suspect that shotguns can only use oversized baffle suppressors, but if you can put a suppressor on a .50 BMG, it seems like a 20G could certainly be suppressed, and maybe a 12G too. |
05-26-2011, 11:21 AM | #2 |
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Oklahoma City
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Re: Silencers for shotguns?
Shotgun Suppressors are in Tactical Shooting, p71
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05-26-2011, 11:28 AM | #3 |
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Re: Silencers for shotguns?
The hearing penalty in Tactical Shooting sounds reasonable if your suppressor has the extra clearance required to safely fire shot.
If the suppressor has tighter clearances, making only slugs safe (and probably not even sabot slugs) I would use the stats for rifle-scale suppressors in HT.
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05-26-2011, 12:33 PM | #4 |
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Re: Silencers for shotguns?
Kind of tangential, but it's not bolt-action specifically. Automatics have noisy moving components and some gas escape at the ejection port, while revolvers usually have a lot of gas escape between the front of the cylinder and the base of the barrel. Any manual repeater (bolt, slide, lever, etc.) should gain the same benefit.
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05-26-2011, 12:40 PM | #5 | |
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Re: Silencers for shotguns?
Shotguns can have suppressors, sure, you can buy them in many jurisdictions.
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http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/sons...tgun-fire.html They also do probably the only suppressed AK-47 in the world: http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/sons...k-47-test.html http://www.redjacketfirearms.com/sup...ppressors.html |
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05-26-2011, 03:02 PM | #6 |
Join Date: Jul 2006
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Re: Silencers for shotguns?
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05-26-2011, 04:28 PM | #7 |
Join Date: Feb 2008
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Re: Silencers for shotguns?
IIRC in High Tech in the Shotgun Special Ammo Sidebar there are stats for a "Silent" Shotgun round...I remember looking at the cost + the stats and going meh...but it is there.
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