pdsmith505
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Pics of the build process?
Cones or Omega's, but no-go on K-Baffles? If you decide to go Omega's, you should try to contact Mr. Gaddini and get his blessing first. On another forum that talks about silencers , they report that he has granted some form 1'ers permission to use his patented design for their home build.
Silencerco went to clipped parabolic cones in the improved Warlock II and Spectre II replacing the Omega style baffle. Clipped parabolic cones are used in just about all Silencerco designs now and variants thereof are used by Griffin, Rugged, and a few others in center fire and pistol cans, as well as Rugged Oculus 22. You can approximate parabolic cones with a short straight entry nose on a 60 degree abbreviated cone similar to what Thunderbeast does with 22 Takedown. Or you can run the cones all the way to the tube wall. Without a sound meter I doubt anybody can hear a difference. Even pressed stainless washers and aluminum spacers do well for rim fire. A version of the Griffin Checkmate 22 was essentially that, although their latest version has gone back to a milled monocore for customer ease of maintenance. For 5.7 use nested cones will deal with dispersing higher pressure gas flow better than K's or Omegas. I'd try the baffles unclipped first across hosts. If your starting with anealed 17-4 you probably won't need to heat treat it for a rimfire can, but for 5.7 use an hour at 900 F in a kiln or lead pot for at least the blast baffle will get the hardness up to optimum. If you plan on using carbide tooling 17-4 might machine better in the hardened state. Probably easier to drill in the annealed state. You'll have a stout 22 can however you make it.Some assembly required.
I haven't decided to go with cones or omegas yet though.
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