What the "Fat Boy", should have been

[MikeVV]

On one hand, I like the way that the (original) Huma Suppressors work. I've never tried the M50 "wrapped" suppressor. It seems that Huma is going away from the Kevlar wrapped design and going to a baffled design (???), so I'll never get to try the original wrapped version.

BUT...another brand has stepped up and built a Kevlar wrapped, chambered..."Behemoth" suppressor . Edgun has built a giant or Behemoth, suppressor. It's got a quick detach adapter for those with short gun cases.
It's about a 50mm diameter, and also like the Huma design, it has sections that can be added or removed that change its length.
It's more than a fair price from Utah Airguns, I took a chance and bought one.

I put it on my AirMaks, Caiman, .22, shooting about 820 or so fps. I've heard the term..."church mouse quiet" before, and never really knew what that meant. I do now. This big Edgun suppressor...IS...church mouse quiet.

There's just the lightest..."pfft"...out of the end of the suppressor. But now, it sounds like all of the mechanical things going on under my ear have tripled in sound ! I tried two different weight pellets, with the same outcome...very quiet.

The only thing I really don't care for is the way that they designed the quick detach adapter. It adds an inch (guessing) or so of overall length to the assembly.

I'll be trying on a couple of different guns in the future, and despite its size, may buy more.

Defiantly worth a look to those that want quiet.

Mike

 

[Jerry P]

Also the Donnyfl. Yokozuna, also quick detach

 

[denovich]

I suspect you'll find that downrange there is still more noise than you would think given how quiet it is behind the trigger. Apparently mouse farts are highly directional. With my best moderator, it sounds dead at the trigger, standing at a distance to the side all you hear is the pellet ripping through the air, but within a 45degree cone of the bore axis, the noise is obvious enough to attract unwanted attention.

 

[OldSpook]

I suspect you'll find that downrange there is still more noise than you would think given how quiet it is behind the trigger. Apparently mouse farts are highly directional. With my best moderator, it sounds dead at the trigger, standing at a distance to the side all you hear is the pellet ripping through the air, but within a 45degree cone of the bore axis, the noise is obvious enough to attract unwanted attention.

I like to think of a moderator as an "antenna". In another life I was an Electronic Warfare specialist. I learned a lot about antennas and antenna design, including wave guides. It is surprising just how much translates directly into audio work and any arena where some object is radiating or re-radiating power. All suppressors are directional. There is no such beastie as an isotropic radiator, except in the math. This is me agreeing with you. Absorbing sound is HARD, redirecting it is pretty easy. When you have a hole through which that sound wants to travel there is precious little you can do to keep the majority of it from doing exactly that.

 

[denovich]

An antenna is a very good analogy. Successfully racing FPV drones in the early days of the hobby meant taking a crash course (literally) in RF. I learned a ton making analog video work over 5.8ghz at high speed in any orientation in any direction, with up to 7 other transmitters working within the same 100mhz and with trees or buildings often in the way. I built/experimented with dozens of different antennas, some for my goggles, some for the drone. The design process was very similar to silencers. Every decision is a trade off. And it is hard to visualize what's really going on with them. Although the science of antennas is WAY better understood.