Photo of Modded M&P

[shep854]

This photo came up on another website. Does anybody know the story? Is that a suppressor, and if so, how well did it work?

 

[Mike McLellan]

That fake head-lamp will hold a little more than a can of beer. Looks like he's been lit for quite a while.

 

[toddimusnimski]

I recall seeing that picture in a story about Tunnel Rats in Vietnam. If memory serves, the equipment shown was a prototype setup. Tunnel rats found a suppressed firearm too bulky in the close confines of the tunnels. Ditto for the headlamp.

 

[GerSan69]

Kind of hard to suppress a revolver....

 

[Qball]

Kind of hard to suppress a revolver....

Can be done though

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n97Yrb-OuVY[/ame]

 

[shep854]

But a M10 is a long way from a Mosin-Nagant. How would the S&W's cylinder gap be closed?

 

[jtcarm]

Yep, the Mosin is was the worlds only suppressed revolver ever., at least the only one produced in any quantity.

 

[Qball]

But a M10 is a long way from a Mosin-Nagant. How would the S&W's cylinder gap be closed?

Like this

http://smith-wessonforum.com/s-w-revolvers-1961-1980/196939-1969-tunnel-gun-new-pic.html

 

[shep854]

Like this

http://smith-wessonforum.com/s-w-revolvers-1961-1980/196939-1969-tunnel-gun-new-pic.html

Thanks for all the detail and history! But...the revolver in my post doesn't look like M29 you discuss. Was a .38 given a similar treatment?

 

[LanceS4803]

It is just a Nagant, from the name Leon Nagant.
Mosin Nagant is the rifle.
(I'm a Russian collector in my other life)

 

[Qball]

Thanks for all the detail and history! But...the revolver in my post doesn't look like M29 you discuss. Was a .38 given a similar treatment?

as said in post 3 "prototype setup. Tunnel rats found a suppressed firearm too bulky in the close confines of the tunnels. Ditto for the headlamp."

 

[shep854]

Thanks, Lance & Qball.