Re: 5 Badlland, 25 Amphibian S.
I don't work for AWC so what I am about to tell you is what they told me, what I can see, what I can hear and what I have had the good fortune to be allowed to be shown. I ask alot of questions, some say too many. Your question has two parts, "what do they do to a new Ruger Mark other than add their integral suppressor?" and "can I see the inside of barrel in a photo?"
Here we go. They take a stock, new Ruger Mark and break it down to 32 pieces and inspect and essentially blue print the gun. Feed ramps are polished, trigger sears are adressed, every surface is inspected and brought up to their specs. Springs are only replaced as needed, stock tensions and pressures are maintained. Every pistol is fired at targets, all targets are numbered (serial) and kept. When a pistol comes back to be brought up to a new gen, new and old targets can be compared. Any pistol not meeting accuracy or sound test is broken back down and rebuilt again. They do customer's rig detailing for under $200. People don't realize that Ruger themselves make changes constantly, some of those work against the interests of suppression, AWC addresses those issues as well. For the record, there are literally thousands of these pistols in operation.
As to the can innards. Here is where it gets interesting, as one might imagine, AWC has been at this long enough that at one point in the 13 gens and 29 years of Amphibians they did try/use artificial environment, packs, meshs, typical baffle stacks, etc. No longer, if you look down am AWC tube what you will see is a radically different "gas diversion pathing." These are a series of football looking millings that look, at first as unequal, but they are infact harmonically balanced and do not create the static chamber traps that ones see in 90% of everybody else baffle stacks. The depth and width of these pathings change the frequency while at the same time allowing excess materials to be brought forward and out of the suppressor. That, along with tuned expansion chambers and the 100 ft/lbs of torque in barrel harmonic suppression is their newest improvement (gen 11 forward.) When I see typical baffles stacks, or baffle and seperator stacks, no matter how beautifully they are made or the materials used, I for one think "old design."
