bs, you've said in print that the can makes the 223 sound just like the .22 unit.
Yes I did. I also said that above — you know, the whole “cuts down on the muzzle blast” thing in my post above. It sounds like a .22 long rifle. I’ve said that before today, I still say that (said pretty much that in this thread), and it’s true.
But sound and recoil aren’t the only factors in the equation. The 3,000-degree, 10,0000PSI gas coming out of the gas tube is a very relevant factor.
I've shot a couple of thousand rds of 223 thru silencers, nearly all of it left handed.
Awesome. Shooting is fun. I’ve done more than that this year, so I'm not relying on memories from the previous century.
I experienced no more blowback than I normally would get without the can.
Then either:
A — you're recalling incorrectly, or
B — the suppressor wasn’t doing much of anything, because...
if the suppressor is moderating (ie, containing) the blast and pressure,
that blast and pressure DO travel out the path of least resistance. Not an assumption on my part, it’s a rule of junior-high-school level physics. If there was no increased backpressure with a semiauto or auto with the suppressor in place, the suppressor accomplished nothing. Physics — it’s a real thing.
since there's no need to be using the can until shtf, that's PLENTY of experience at it. As I've said before, the can designs you use must suck.
Well, I confess that they contain no rolled-up window screen, wound around a dowel rod and pounded into shape with a mallet. Because mallet-pounded window screen is probably magic stuff for 10,000-degree gas blasts at 3,000PSI, trailing in the wake of a mach-3 projectile. You got me there.
Your 1970’s kitchen-table designs are better than John Norrell's? Better than AAC? Better than AWC? They're so good and so advanced that you've somehow overcome the laws of physics that most of us mortals are bound by?
Because I have suppressors from all three of those makers, and the laws of physics (shockingly) do apply.