So I took a guy to the range. Early today, like sunup.
Work with him. He wanted to shoot a suppressor.
OK it was raining hard, so we kept it to a minimum. One magazine full, and head back to town. My Smith .22 is stainless, so the rain wasn't an immediate threat to the pistol, but possible hypothermia was a threat to us..
The 12 rounds fired were louder than expected. I was figuring on a little louder than usual, because wet air is dense air, and sound is not travelling away efficiently. And I was shooting it dry. But it was a LOT louder than I expected...because I grabbed the wrong can. The one with the baffles soaking in a glass jar of Ballistol.
So Eric didn't really shoot a suppressor today, he shot an empty metal tube.
We'll try again.
So I took a guy to the range. Early today, like sunup.
by Paul 
, Sunday, August 13, 2023, 20:03 (458 days ago) @ A K Church
I'm glad I"m not the only one does things like that... 
Yep, no baffles makes less impact on noise output. I have an AirArms ProSport in 4.5mm. I let someone else shoot it when it was fairly new and thought they'd broken my rifle as it was soooo quiet without the spring and piston doing their thing next to my ear. A few years later I was at a Field Target competition and it started spitting the baffles out. I managed to collect them all without causing problems with range officers and such and kept them in a baggie for a long time. Finally got around to reinstalling them and voilá! She's a quiet little rifle once more. Yep, baffles make a difference!
Now you've got an excuse to take him out to the range again. That's always a good thing, as if we need an excuse - eh?