Having just completed my first two suppressor projects I am no suppressor guru, but their traits, as opposed to a compensator on the same firearm, are starkly different to me. Maybe because I have only used my pistol extensively so far. Perhaps because the “newness” hasn’t worn off yet.
A suppressor does offer recoil reduction.
It wasn’t near as much as the TK comp it had replaced seconds earlier, that one being particularly perfect. It was quieter and thusly more pleasurable though.
There was more muzzle rise because there are no countering ports on top, but it happens slower allowing the arm and body (brain) more time to counter it.
I can’t empty a mag as quickly, on target, with the suppressor, compared to the compensator.
These are my plebeian observations.
It may just be me, a suppressor still makes me giggle.
I haven’t shot my Blackout extensively enough before hand to know the difference between the KVP linear comp and the suppressor. It seemed just a little more soft shooting with Remington subsonic ammunition. But this Can is, I think, significantly heavier and the linear comp, while effective on the whole, is less so than a Side Sweeper.
There was a fine line with gas block adjustments. I could dial it down to very quiet and functional, but not locking the bolt back. To get the bolt to lock every time, it is just ever so more loud. Like a rimfire pistol. Not something one would like to experience a lot. Muffs are still required for range time. Though in emergency use, infinitely superior to the dramatic increase in hearing damage otherwise.
So if you were just thinking the recoil reduction would be better and it would also be quiet, well I hate to be the one to burst your bubble, but mine was just pricked a few weeks ago so...
(Not that I hadn’t heard already about the issue, like you have now, or previously, I’m sure.
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Even having said that, I’m still getting mounts for use on two other ARs. It is better to be quieter.