Can revolvers be supressed with a sound suppressor?

[AirPower]

Wondering with the cylinder gap, does the sound suppressor work with revolvers?

 

[indoorsoccerfrea]

i'm sure it would decrease the noise coming from the muzzle, but as far as how much would still be coming from the gap...that i don't know

 

[WardenWolf]

Not effectively, as the gap between the cylinder and the barrel would still allow the sound to escape. There is only 1 revolver in the world that can be effectively suppressed, the old Russian Model 1895 Nagant. It used special ammunition and a cylinder that moved forward to seal the gap.

 

[BlacklabelOP]

Nagant 1895

When you cock the hammer, the cylinder moves forward to contact the barrel's forcing cone.


Not mine but a friends

 

[Steve C]

I once saw a picture of a tunnel rat in Viet Nam that was holding a revolver with a suppressor attatched to the barrel. While not fully effective I'm sure it reduced muzzle blast in the tight confines of a tunnel enough so the shooter wasn't completely deafened and blinded by flash.

 

[MatthewVanitas]

Here's the perfect YouTube clip to answer your question:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvF4yurWSc0

Nagant revolver with .30 suppressor. Neat project that fellow did.

 

[Kind of Blued]

Here's another one, but with me shooting it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud_Os0WWpFg&feature=channel_page

 

[2RCO]

Didn't the KGB use silenced Nagants?

 

[Eightball]

The Nagant is the only one you can suppress externally, AFAIK. That being said, internally-suppressed rounds do exist......"gas block" or something like that? Supposedly the Russians have a couple options using ammunition like that floating around.

 

[freakshow10mm]

Knights Armament makes a suppressed revolver carbine for the Navy. It's largely classified as well as the ammunition for it. It can be done but it is very tedious and expensive if you aren't suppressing a Nagant.

 

[Duke of Doubt]

Certain double-action Colt revolvers are susceptible to some suppression owing to mechanical locking. But the Nagant takes the cake.

 

[Jim K]

I have it on good authority that a suppressor on a conventional revolver really does work. There is some noise from the barrel/cylinder gap, but not as much as folks seem to expect.

Only a few suppressors really are "silencers"; most reduce the noise enough so that the shot doesn't sound like a shot, and that is good enough.

Jim

 

[PTK]

Here's the perfect YouTube clip to answer your question:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvF4yurWSc0

Nagant revolver with .30 suppressor. Neat project that fellow did.

Didn't I even say in the video, 9mm silencer? That's .355, not .30.

 

[GEM]

There was a Ruger based silenced revolver - was that the Knight's gun. I forget. Anyway, it was written up in one of those Assault Weapons books put out by the Gun Digest folks.

It got on TV a few times - maybe on the X-Files. Vague memory of it.

 

[rklessdriver]

You can also supress a Dan Wesson. Because of the removeable barrel you can cock the weapon, then screw the barrel back closing the cyl to forcing cone gap up to .0000.... Some folks over at the CIA had a few Dan Wesson revolvers that were soposedly supressed in this manner.
Will

 

[madcratebuilder]

Only a few suppressors really are "silencers"; most reduce the noise enough so that the shot doesn't sound like a shot, and that is good enough.

10-4
"silencer" is kind of a misname. A suppressor changes the sound, it does not eliminate it.

 

[freakshow10mm]

Silencer was a marketing term used by Maxim, the developer of the first commercially successful suppressor.

 

[El Hombre]

You can also supress a Dan Wesson. Because of the removeable barrel you can cock the weapon, then screw the barrel back closing the cyl to forcing cone gap up to .0000.... Some folks over at the CIA had a few Dan Wesson revolvers that were soposedly supressed in this manner.


I sure wouldn't want to be working on the muzzle end of a loaded & cocked revolver. Looks like a good way to blow a hole through your hand while loosening/tightening the shroud nut.

Bad Idea. Can't believe the CIA or anyone would try anything this stupid.

 

[BigBlock]

So...besides the $200(?) tax stamp...how much would a supressor like the one above cost for a Nagant?

 

[Kind of Blued]

I think the one in the video is a YHM Cobra 9mm suppressor which has an MSRP of under $600.

Any 9mm suppressor should work on a Nagant so long as you thread the Nagant's barrel correctly. I'd bet that there are cheaper 9mm cans out there to be had.

 

[Beagle-zebub]

Bad Idea. Can't believe the CIA or anyone would try anything this stupid.

Really? The guys who made all those wacky attempts to kill Castro?

 

[Ranb]

My Nagant silencer is going to cost me about $10 plus the $200 tax. If I factor in the cost of the lathe and other tools I bought to make them with, then my silencers made to date cost me about $285 each. I'm too cheap to buy silencers like I am too cheap to buy commercial ammo.

Ranb

 

[mordechaianiliewicz]

Actually, what amazed me in the video was that I could not hear the shot at all. All I could hear was the click of the firing pin striking primer.

It works very well.

 

[Jim K]

"Silencer" is kind of a misname. A suppressor changes the sound, it does not eliminate it."

That is the conventional wisdom, and I would believe it if I had not had the pleasure of seeing a M1903 rifle with a Maxim silencer fired indoors. It was fired into a long box stuffed with cotton and sand.

The only sound was the click of the firing pin.

Outdoors, of course, at a longer range, the sonic crack of the bullet would have been audible, but indoors at short range that did not happen. Even the bullet striking the cotton made no noise.

So Maxim did not just call his device a silencer, it was a silencer. But it was also horrendously complex and expensive; the simpler, cheaper devices of today are properly called suppressors, since they don't silence.

Jim

 

[gentleman987]

what would the need be to suppress a revolver