"micky" wrote in message
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OT Are gun silencers on pistols really as effective as they show in
the movies? What about the breech? Does a lot of the noise come
from there?

And what about the muzzle? Doesn't the bullet make a hole in whatever
is in the silencer, so the noise can follow the bullet out the hole?
After all, the walls on the barrel are pretty strong, so the noise
without a silencer must come out the mouth of the barrel. Why not out
the mouth of the silencer, at least after it's been used a couple
times?

I've fired a pistol, without a silencer, and didn't or couldn't
notice these things.

First of all, silencer is a dirty word. Use the term suppressor.

I made one long ago out of a piece of half inch conduit. I drilled lots of
holes across the conduit, 1/16" each. Then I took one of the OLD Coors 7
oz. aluminum beer cans (if you remember those, you ARE old), and took one
end out, put the conduit through a hole made in the other, and slid it over
steel wool wrapped on the conduit, and placed the cap back on the can.

I was shooting a Remington bolt .22, and it REALLY worked well. My dad just
about **** when he found out about it, and I had to toss it. But he was a
machinist, and really think he was sorta proud of me. He was a USAC WWII
vet, so had lots of experience. With BIG guns and bombs.

Steve