#350 LEGEND SUBSONIC AMMO HOW TO#

We recommend using standard white lithium grease on the outside diameter of the piston. If you’re using a booster system (piston with the spring) make sure to keep your piston clean and lubricated.

#350 LEGEND SUBSONIC AMMO HOW TO#

Our article How to Prevent Suppressor Walk Off goes over these solutions and features a video showing them in use.

Some people will put o-rings on their barrels to stop walk off, but we DO NOT recommend using o-rings on barrels as they throw off alignment and can cause strikes. We have found that left hand threaded barrels have less walk off than traditional right hand threads. Wrapping the threads of your barrel with teflon tape/plumbers tape drastically reduces walk off and is a cheap and easy solution. We recommend making sure the suppressor is tight in between magazines to prevent this. Suppressor walk off occurs when the suppressor loosens itself from the threaded barrel while firing. The most common reason for a strike on a pistol can is due to “walk off”. On top of that suppressors direct the firearms blast forward and away from the shooter to help prevent concussive hearing loss. Now when you factor in using your traditional hearing protection, you’re all the way down to 128.5dB. Our Micro30 even in it’s short configuration (5″) will bring that rifle down to right about 140dB (at the ear). This is where suppressors come to the rescue. Mark Kuczka from Accurate Ordnance wrote a great article going over this, check it out here. This occurs from the concussion of shooting going through your facial bones to your ear drums.

Even with hearing protection your rifle is still at 153.5dB, which is well above hearing safe! To top it off, if you’re using a muzzle brake, short barreled rifle or shooting in confined spaces (barricades, indoors etc.) you’re experiencing concussive hearing loss. Now a good pair of hearing protection has a rating of 30 NRR (Noise Reduction Rating), when you convert this to decibels it comes out to 11.5 of decibel reduction. Keep in mind in mind this is only for 1 shot at 140dB per 24 hours, the second shot alone can cause hearing damage. Have you ever noticed that even if you wear hearing protection your hearing is declining over time? A large reason is that traditional hearing protection isn’t capable of reducing sound to safe levels for most firearms.Ī rifle is around 165 decibels (dB) (decibels are essentially a measurement system for sound levels), the common “hearing safe” standard you’ll hear is 140dB for one shot in a 24 hour time period. The fact that suppressors reduce the sound of a firearm is a well known, but how much of a difference they make in protecting your hearing is usually overlooked.

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