Everyone else, save up and buy a dang suppressor. So you live in some lame place where silencers aren’t legal? Okay, I’ll continue this “best of” list just for you. ![]() Basically, you can install them on most of your AR-15s, AR-10s, and bolt actions and quickly move the same suppressor between them all. It’s nicer to wear down a $75 part than the blast baffle of your $800 silencer.Ĭherry Bombs are available for. Inside a suppressor, the Cherry Bomb acts as a sacrificial blast baffle, bearing the brunt of the high pressure, high heat, and abrasive particle-filled gas exploding out the barrel. Obviously the Cherry Bomb works directly with Q’s own Trash Panda and Thunder Chicken suppressors, and now with the Plan-B by Q it’ll also work in the aforementioned Dead Air Nomad-30, a bunch of SilencerCo cans, and some others. Just look how clean the taper and threads are in the photo above, despite all that carbon baked onto the compensator area! This, not threads in front of taper, is the way to do it right. Thanks to the taper’s location in front of the threads, those threads will always be as clean as new. No crush washer needed, as the Cherry Bomb doesn’t have to be timed. You definitely want the suppressor coming off the brake rather than the brake coming off the barrel, so tighten that sucker down via the 1/2″ socket drive shape on the Cherry Bomb’s muzzle end. Inside the Cherry Bomb is another taper mount area for use on a tapered barrel, but it’s also compatible with a standard, square-shouldered barrel. Thanks to the large taper mount section, a suppressor on a Cherry Bomb is far less likely to loosen on its own than one up against a square shoulder. Just hand snug - and relatively gently, at that - will do it. Instead of 20-ish rotations to tighten, with the Cherry Bomb it only takes five spins to go from removed to completely tight. It isn’t as fast as many of the quick-and-dirty, spring-loaded, ratchet- or click-on systems that often require only a quarter or half turn of the suppressor, but it’s way faster than a direct thread suppressor. Q’s Cherry Bomb is what I’d have to call a semi-quick detach option. That’s right, we’re still on the suppressor thing because it’s so far in the lead as the best AR-15 muzzle device choice that it owns both the #1 and #2 slots in my little listicle here. I have no idea how the Cherry Bomb performs on its own (we’ll find out in test #4)! But it’s the best muzzle device for attaching a suppressor to a rifle. 30 caliber (7.62) or smaller projectile, and a modern, tubeless design with the sharpest little laser welds I’ve ever seen - and, yes, it’s super quiet - the Nomad is my number #1 rifle suppressor suggestion right now. With a fully modular mounting system, a large diameter and short length, 17-4 PH stainless steel construction, swappable end caps, the ability to be used on anything firing a. Now, if I had to choose a silencer to single out as the best rifle silencer currently available?. While the cost of entry is high and there’s paperwork and a wait period involved ( Silencer Shop makes the process the easiest in the country, FYI), a suppressor is the best AR-15 muzzle device you can possibly choose. While not typically marketed as a flash suppressor, that silencer will reduce muzzle flash by as much as most dedicated flash hiders and light years more than a muzzle brake, typical compensator, and certainly a bare muzzle. Safer, too.įinally, most sound suppressors are also excellent at flash suppression. With a suppressor, you’ve effectively moved your ear protection from your head to the muzzle of your rifle. In contrast, many muzzle brakes, compensators, and flash hiders actually increase sound levels at the shooter’s ear (brakes are typically extremely loud!). In most cases a suppressor is designed to reduce volume levels by at least enough that decibels enter the “hearing safe” zone. Obviously those gunshots won’t be as loud with a firearm muffler attached. This alone makes the experience of shooting a rifle vastly more enjoyable. For the shooter, muzzle blast and concussion are reduced almost entirely. Speaking of sneezing, a suppressor reduces muzzle blast to about that level. They may not have the recoil reduction of a muzzle brake, but cutting felt recoil by about 50% is nothing to sneeze at. With no hesitation or doubt in my mind whatsoever, I can unequivocally state that the best muzzle device you can put on a rifle (AR-15 or otherwise) is a sound suppressor. This test will include recoil reduction, dB measurement (sound volume level), and muzzle blast measurement (concussion - the overpressure wave through the air that thumps your chest and sinuses). Muzzle brake test #4 will happen soon! It’s scheduled for three months ago, so it will be along any time now.
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