does adding a silencer onto a aeg do nething else besides filter the noise?

[blueballz]

hi there. i was wonderin if i put in a silencer in my TM m733 commando, will that increase my fps, accuracy, or distance at all...even just a little??

[ToRN]

it will if you use it to hide a longer inner barrel.

[Kid]

It's been rumoured that it will put your FPS down by 20. Multiple reports, I don't have a chrony though to test myself.

i cant imagine that. the only thing that should make a lower chrony result is that the chrony will be further from the inner barrel.

[Kid]

Yeah, doesn't sound right to me either.

The one user I can think of that told this on ASC was mguyver. Then a couple other guys tried it and mentioned it over msn.

If I could get the damn 'microphone chrony' to work, I would test it.

[SEALs]

adding a simple silencer do nothing except changing the high pitch of the gun into a low pitch. On gas weapon its way more effective. I get a 100% sound reduction on my M24 when my silencer is used.

[vondnik]

the only thing a silencer does is that it makes your gun longer.. period

[jackel]

The silencer will change the pitch. It will help disguising the position from the report of your weapon over long distances. It is kind of like thowing your voice, you can still hear something but you can not pinpoint exactly where it is coming from. It will not hide the "sewing machine" whine of the mech box. This being said it is best used on single fire.

[PoFF]

It'll only add some unwanted weight... and make your gun longer like Vondnik said.

Unless you want to hide a longer inner barrel, it's worthless IMO

[Mysteryfish]

it CAN have the effect of slowing down your BB's, and i've noticed the effect (especially on my pistol).

Instead of the air coming out of the barrel being able to disperse in all directions, it's able to expand only slightly, and into the marginally larger diameter of the silencer. Granted, the foam or baffles "absorb" some of it, the BB's still pushing through what is effectively "denser" air.

It's a minimal effect, but it exists.

[Shinjin_MC]

also, if there is too much space inside the supressor, firing the gun might result in the propelling air to 'bounce around' the inside of the silencer body, which makes the bb that flys through that less accurate
I remember reading that somewhere on some site before...but I cant find it

[DuffMan]

Originally Posted by vondnik

the only thing a silencer does is that it makes your gun longer.. period

Not necessarily. My buddy put a SOCOM style silencer on his G36C and it took the 'ratta-tat-tat' to a 'pfft-pfft-pfft-pfft'.

[Ghost Snake]

Sigh, if only someone had a chrono and a gun w/suppressor.....

Oh wait, I do. Give me 15 minutes and I'll have an answer for you.

EDIT: Well, it looks like a suppressor does nothing as far as velocity goes. I tested my G36C with 2 different suppressors. A G&P MK23 style suppressor, and a GB-Tech which is modelled after the Surefire suppressor. Neither affected velocity whatsoever. Velocity remained at 334 +/- 3 with both of them. There was a little sound difference, but it was more the sound it made, not loudness. I didnt do an accuracy test though. I'll leave that to someone else.

[Greylocks]

Unless you hide a longer barrel, the ONLY thing that will happen (and is measurable) is a change in the sound (for AEG).
No real effect on the accuracy/range unless the silencer is badly mounted.
It's really a question of 'looks'.

[the_spork_of_death]

maby its my silencer being wierd, but when i put it on my 5.1 hi-capa it shoots the bb at a 45 degree angle to the left of were im aiming