This shit with 3D printed suppressors coming loaded full of metallic dust that blows back into your firearm absolutely pisses me off. It's like the product is unfinished and the manufacturer expects you to figure out how to prepare the thing for use. I bought a PTR Vent 2 and screwed it on to my Staccato P. I had a KKM barrel custom made for a threaded suppressor barrel by them and had a gunsmith fit it to my pistol. We spent a couple of weeks researching 9mm reamers for accuracy potential. Talking to former AMU members, folks from the Olympic training center, and reamer manufacturers. When we selected a reamer, got the barrel fitted, we borrowed a ransom rest from the Olympic training center and tested some Atlanta Arms match ammo and some known accuracy hand loads. Holding sub 1" groups at 25yds. I'd heard about the issue with the leftover dust particulates from the printing process but I just didn't think about it at first. I got about 10rds through the suppressor before the gun locked up. The rounds were jamming in the chamber. When I got the unfired round out of the chamber the case was scratched up and it dawned on me. That shit was blowing back into the barrel and proliferating throughout the pistol. I cleaned the gun, soaked the suppressor in CLR and then soapy water with a bunch of flushes trying to get it out. I took the suppressor out again and again had the same problem. At this point I don't know what to do with it. "They say" you just have to run a bunch of rounds through the suppressor to blow the dust out. But what firearm do I want to fuck down to get this suppressor usable? It's pretty unbelievable to me that suppressor manufacturers experimented with this type of manufacturing and got to the end of proof of concept with this last unsolved detail or problem and just shrugged, "Let the customer figure it out".
Give me a call at 916-628-3490 - Richard
