Suppressors Larue range day suppressed.

[Chucky]

This weekend I went to the Larue range day down in Texas. I was there with SureFire and I brought my personally owned OBR for the shoot. Friday we got to the range and I zerod my new Bushnell HDMR and plugged my data into a ATRAG and got my dope and double checked it for the steel at 250,500,750 and 1K.

Saturday was the range day and we had customers shoot from 10-5. Each customer shot 2 round unsuppressed and then 3 suppressed at a steel larue target. I had them shoot at just the face to see the minimal impact shift with the suppressor on.

For everyone worried about shooting DI guns suppressed because they won't run I wouldn't worry too much. If you look at my pics this is my gun after the range. I only relubed it once about halfway through the day and I only put about 8 drops of SLIP 2000 on it racked the bolt to the rear a couple of times and continued to shoot. I had one failure to extract and it was because I forgot to put the adjustable gas block on unsuppressed after taking off my suppressor. Switched the block and never had another issue.

The pics don't even show how truly dirty this gun is unless you see it in person. After the last person shot I jumped behind my gun held 3.4 mils and right edge on a larue sniper target and put 2 in the center of the chest and then one in the head and called it a day. I guess DI guns will run suppressed and also a 18 inch gun will easily put a rounds on target at various ranges.

 

[Silenced America]

Re: Larue range day suppressed.

Thanks for the pics, Chucky. There is nothing more I like to see than a hard used, beat-up, filthy-ass gas gun that runs just fine. If a gun cannot take a beating, then I don't want it. I hate pretty guns!

I wish that I did not miss out on the range day.

 

[HPLLC]

Re: Larue range day suppressed.

That sounds like 600 rounds through the can, and 1000 through the gun?

The gun running through it all is great, because most guys will only carry 100 rounds so that's ten times more reliable than it needs to be.

 

[Chucky]

Re: Larue range day suppressed.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Griffin Armament</div><div class="ubbcode-body">That sounds like 600 rounds through the can, and 1000 through the gun?

The gun running through it all is great, because most guys will only carry 100 rounds so that's ten times more reliable than it needs to be. </div></div>

I would say at least 600 rounds suppressed. Some people has already shot the OBR's unsuppressed so they could care less about shooting it with a brake. Also I had a few people want to shoot that gun suppressed so I let them and then I shot it a lot suppressed the day before and earlier in the day to shoot steel before all the people that attended did.

DI guns will run if they are built right. I just want to let people know that if you put a suppressor on your rifle you don't need to get hung up on DI/Piston because both of them will work it just depends on what your specific criterias of what you want to do with it are.

 

[HPLLC]

Re: Larue range day suppressed.

I met a guy once who ran his 10.5" MK18 7500 rounds and the only cleaning he would do was run a chamber brush and oil the bolt carrier group.

The gun was disgusting but it ran like a top. That guy swore the carbon created a surface for the oil to cling to.

I agree the piston operation is hard to conclusively suggest to be superior.

Maybe the only area to clearly improve would be operating noise of the DI system.

 

[dvdt]

Re: Larue range day suppressed.

Thanks for posting this up. Gives some real world feedback and makes me worry less about suppressing my DI.

Was that regular ole SLiP 2000 or the EWL or ... ?

 

[@lent]

Re: Larue range day suppressed.

Cool. Wish I'd been there.

 

[Chucky]

Re: Larue range day suppressed.

I don't remember which it was. The gun ran though.

 

[MikeeBooshay]

Re: Larue range day suppressed.

Chuck,

Nice pic, thanks for sharing. I also ran my 20" OBR for long time, without cleaning. I was well past 2000 rounds, about half suppressed, half not. Filthy, dirty, and my mind finally couldn't take it any more, after a shoot at Chuck Ross's place, I had to clean it. Still shot great, and not one, zero, feeding shooting issues, gun just ran.

 

[mdmp5]

Re: Larue range day suppressed.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Griffin Armament</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I met a guy once who ran his 10.5" MK18 7500 rounds and the only cleaning he would do was run a chamber brush and oil the bolt carrier group.

The gun was disgusting but it ran like a top. That guy swore the carbon created a surface for the oil to cling to.

I agree the piston operation is hard to conclusively suggest to be superior.

Maybe the only area to clearly improve would be operating noise of the DI system. </div></div>

Quite the polar opposite of what I am used to. After about 500 rds thru mine, I get failure to chamber and failure to extract. But then again, my tolerances are pretty tight on the receiver.

 

[Chucky]

Re: Larue range day suppressed.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: palmik</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Griffin Armament</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I met a guy once who ran his 10.5" MK18 7500 rounds and the only cleaning he would do was run a chamber brush and oil the bolt carrier group.

The gun was disgusting but it ran like a top. That guy swore the carbon created a surface for the oil to cling to.

I agree the piston operation is hard to conclusively suggest to be superior.

Maybe the only area to clearly improve would be operating noise of the DI system. </div></div>

Quite the polar opposite of what I am used to. After about 500 rds thru mine, I get failure to chamber and failure to extract. But then again, my tolerances are pretty tight on the receiver. </div></div>

Is this a no kidding Crane built MK18 or some other 10 inch barreled gun.

 

[mdmp5]

Re: Larue range day suppressed.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: chucky</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: palmik</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Griffin Armament</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I met a guy once who ran his 10.5" MK18 7500 rounds and the only cleaning he would do was run a chamber brush and oil the bolt carrier group.

The gun was disgusting but it ran like a top. That guy swore the carbon created a surface for the oil to cling to.

I agree the piston operation is hard to conclusively suggest to be superior.

Maybe the only area to clearly improve would be operating noise of the DI system. </div></div>

Quite the polar opposite of what I am used to. After about 500 rds thru mine, I get failure to chamber and failure to extract. But then again, my tolerances are pretty tight on the receiver. </div></div>

Is this a no kidding Crane built MK18 or some other 10 inch barreled gun.</div></div>

Actually, my bad. I was referring to my precision AR15