Re: who makes a square or rectangular shaped can?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: dustingaunder</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: $KYshooter338$</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
I think Silencerco has a good thing going and would disprove your theory of a squared suppressor is not going to perform well. Here is a demo of the can being shot and I do not hear a difference vs. the round cans. Also talk with Bryon at M3 he has tested the Osprey and found it to perform BETTER then most round cans....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JhZHIfXrX4 </div></div>
The difference being a rifle round and a pistol round. Square shapes are poor pressure vessels. Square can work just fine with the muzzle pressures and gas volumes of pistol rounds, but with a rifle round, there is just too much pressure. Once you introduce the heat a 5.56 AR generates, it can be a recipe for catastrophic failure.
He won't answer weather or not it has even been tested to failure so no one knows exactly what that is. </div></div>
There is no point to publishing numbers online that will encourage people to abuse a product. The manual has guidelines for safe use and that information is what the end users need in order to help keep them happy with good silencer longevity and relative freedom from fear of baffle strikes.
Gemtech has high speed cameras and could tell you a few things about the lack of bullet stability and how early in rapid fire that begins to occur in short barrels.
Bullets begin to yaw very excessively [to the point of threatening .300" bores] in as little as 95 rounds on automatic in conjunction with 10.5" barrels. Longer barrels exhibit greater stability, so they permit slightly higher fire schedules with relative safety. Those longer barrels also have lower bullet exit pressures.
If you really want to know how much abuse the product will take, I suggest you buy one and destroy it yourself. For me to publish information that will inevitably result in excessive abuse of our products is of no benefit to me.
Most shoulder fired infantry weapons have published rate of fire limitations. The M4 carbine has a maximum sustained rate of fire of 12-15 rounds per minute. Silencers will only accelerate heating so exceeding that limit "sustained" will damage your rifle with or without a suppressor. Off the top of my head rapid for the M4 carbine is ~45 rounds per minute for 2-3 minutes.
If you got out and deployed somewhere you would learn how very very rare it is that combat situations ever require a soldier to exceed the rate of fire limitations of their weapons. To build an excessively large or heavy product would more likely result in casualties from soldiers overburdened with gear and unable to break contact when in strategically disadvantageous terrain.
Another good idea would be to get out and do your own testing to formulate your own opinions rather than recite opinions read on other forums.