Suppressors Tires for mussel blast???

[Jeff Mallette]

I want to know if anybody has any Ideas On how to use old tires so when I shoot my 22 to 338lapua,it won't bother the neighbor's ????? Has anybody tried this,like in the prone poss.
I just would like to cut the noise down by 50 to 75%
Or is there better ways....remember something I can shoot all my guns through..Thanks Jeff Mallette

 

[tansinator]

Re: Tires for mussel blast???

Suppressor

 

[Eben]

Re: Tires for mussel blast???

An environmental suppressor?
The curved section of the tires may trap some of the sound from exiting the ends, but they may also reflect it back on you.
You may be onto something here, try it and report back.

 

[Strykervet]

Re: Tires for mussel blast???

Well, when you shoot from inside a drainage tunnel it is DEAFENING! To the shooter at least. The difference was negligible outside.

Still, worth a try if you have the stuff. Maybe tires would work better. The rubber seems like a good idea though.

 

[Strykervet]

Re: Tires for mussel blast???

Oh, you could try stacking the tires and fill them with sand and make a small trench. I know shoot houses are a lot quieter on the outside than they are on the inside and that is basically all some of them are, rubber and sand.

 

[Jeff Mallette]

Re: Tires for mussel blast???

Yes I thought off putting fiberglass insulation in the tires or some sort of sound damping material,Plus screwing the tires together and making it about 10 feet long

 

[MontanaKid]

Re: Tires for mussel blast???

Just make sure you get a tax stamp for those tires. LOL.

 

[noz455sd]

Re: Tires for mussel blast???

Ive been thinking about the same thing...A drainage pipe coming from the shooting area which I may enclose and dyna-mat plus the interior of culvert then something the make a partition wall of plywood facing the source of muzzle blast with a large enough opening to shoot through or maybe a slit so I could maintain target area so no one is about to walk in the line of fire. Then have the face of partition wall also dyna matted or the stuff you can get at guitar center minus the high price...Just something to that effect...Ive got 33 acres and enough room to get a 600yard range so I was also thinking I would dig a pond and use the dirt for my back stop and build a wall of dirt around my shoot house that I want to create.........?

 

[sgtsmmiii]

Re: Tires for mussel blast???

Well, this will tell how old I am, but a couple of DECADES ago, Rick Jamison, of Shooting Times magazine did an article on just that- using old tires and different types of sound deadening materials enclosed in a plywood box with wheels on it to make a portable suppressor to help keep the muzzle blast down for his neighbors ( he was shooting out of a window in his barn(?) ). If I recall correctly, his biggest concern was the accumulation of un-burnt powder in the various tire "baffles" and the possibility of a fire in the future.

I don't know if there is a way to search the old Shooting Times articles, but in my feeble recollection, it was a pretty good article.

 

[KYS]

Re: Tires for mussel blast???

Noise will go somewhere..... you might be able to change its direction but someone is going to hear that. You could also be doing damage to your hearing.

 

[RollingThunder51]

Re: Tires for mussel blast???

Read here:

http://www.thehighroad.org/archive/index.php/t-86614.html

and here

http://www.shootersforum.com/general-discussion/23982-backyard-shooting-range-noise.html

and here

http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_6_20/248710_.html

 

[Mission Critical Firearms LLC]

Re: Tires for mussel blast???

Why not invest in a suppressor

 

[noz455sd]

Re: Tires for mussel blast???

In my case I do have suppressors but not all guns will have them like my M1 Garand and others. I want it to be universally quiet plus my animals wont really appreciate the noise either. I take a gun out and they take off...Ive never terrorized them with firearms either and it makes me feel bad to shoot at time because how bad it disturbs them.

 

[xs hedspace]

Re: Tires for mussel blast???

That photo looks like my old shooting bench, except I only had 5 tires. The tires had old fiberglass insulation, and screening to hold in the fiberglass. Wifey in the house about 70 yds away said it was only half as loud as without the tires. Neighbors still complained when I sighted in my 45-70, so I gave up.

 

[kansas]

Re: Tires for mussel blast???

This is an interesting article. I bought a suppressor for my .22 because I like to shoot from my yard and we have neighbors close. Just trying to be a good neighbor however I'm shooting way more large caliber rifles, not near the house but close enough the neighbors probably get tired of the noise pollution.
Noise pollution is exactly why suppressors ought to be easily attainable. They are in other countries for this very reason.