Silenced PSG-1

[The_Spec]

Hi, I'm not a soldier or anything, just a student with a hobby. I got a question about a sniper rifle which some people argued about. Is it possible to attach a silencer to the HK PSG-1 or does a known sd version of it exists?

[JY]

Hi Spec;

A supressor can be attached to the PSG-1 , most SWS have that capability.

Haven't seen you on the board before, glad to see you, welcome aboard.

Take care...Jim, Sine Pari

[TR]

JY is 100% right on this, heck I have seen pics of the 50 caliber Barrett's suppressed...

If there is a will someone will find a way.
:D


Until Later

TR

[andrew51]

theres some company that sells supressors for shotguns-it looks really stupid and makes it like 6 inches longer.

[The_Spec]

Thanks for that info. I guess they can silence every weapon if they want to.

[TR]

Not exactly...

a traditional revolver is one which cannot be suppressed effictively due to the mechanical nature of the weapon. The escaping gasses from the cylinder make it difficult to keep it quiet.

TR

[dragonrain]

Right TR, not that they didnt try.

A company in the 60's made a supressed revolver for Tunnel Rats. It came in a kit that also included things like a head lamp, which according to the Tunnel boys kept sliding over thier eyes. And no the suppresor didnt make much of a difference.
( The info came from the book "The Tunnels of Cu Chi"


Case
DR

[TR]

A book which I have...

I think the purpose was more to help dissipate the flash of the weapon and reduce the overall sound signature... both of which were overpowering in the confined tunnel systems of Viet Nam. Though there has been more recent luck with a weapon being experimented with by Knight using a telescoping cartrdige akin to the old "teleshot" cartridges used in shotguns during the Viet Nam war...

However the picture is not the best and I have not seen any info on this pistol since the mid 90's.

It may have fallen by the wayside but it represents an attempt to truly suppress the revolver...

TR

[dragonrain]

Good info TR.





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DR

[andrew51]

why would you take the time to try and silence a revolver when you could just do it with an autoloader that can hold more rounds, is esier to reload and can fire just as powerful rounds?

[TR]

Uhhhhhh... anyone else wanna comment on this one? No? Ok...

:D

The chief advantage today revolvers still hold over semi-automatic pistols is they don't jam. If your semi-auto jams as your using it to remove a sentry it's generally considered a bad thing. If you need one shot to do it right some still turn to the venerable and reliable revolver.

Besides... if you can't hit the target with 15 rounds much less 6 there's something wrong. Some folk equate magazine capacity with superiority. I'd rather be able to hit with a single shot from a 357 Magnum than miss 6 times with a 9mm.


TR

[D.E. Watters]

I can think of a major advantage to a suppressed revolver over a semi-auto counterpart...It is easier to police the brass. Certainly you can use a slide lock device on the auto-loader, but you've then restricted it to a manually operated single-shot.

[AStone]

Knight Armament Corp. out of Vero Beach, Florida makes what they call a silenced revolver for military users. I have seem better designs that would work better for the purpose but, the military likes thing more complicated and more expensive. Anyway, the silenced revolver is built off of a Ruger RedHawk frame and uses special ammunition that seal the cylinder/barrel gap when firing. They had an article about the respective weapons in I believe the 20th edition of World Small Arms, they might have a copy at a bookstore.