Suppressed revolver?

[Tom S.]

Makes me want to tighten up the gap on my 500 and put one of these on it:

Notice it's even got a handy hand-hold on the end!

 

[Georgia1911]

My Dan Wesson is pretty quiet with the gap tightened up (say 0.002") and the 12" barrel installed. Not exactly a Hollywood like flea fart, but much milder than the same gun with the 4" barrel and standard 0.006" BC gap. The pressure wave must be reduced because the chamber/barrel pressure has dropped significantly before the bullet exits the barrel.

 

[BUFF]

This thread jarred an old memory loose. I saw a movie or TV show once, probably a movie on the TV, where the character had a revolver with a silencer on it and was shooting somebody with it. The actor had poor coordination or really slow reflexes as there was a real gap between him firing each shot and him jerking the barrel up to simulate recoil. Sort of like the girls shot on Charley's Angels.

Then the "special effects" man, with fewer skills than my junior high stage crew, added the "ffffffftt!" noise after each "shot."

I remember laughing at it at the time and remembering it now still made me chuckle. Or maybe simulate chuckling.

 

[ridgewalker]

Just wondering if you tightened the BC gap up with shims to about .001 or . 002 would that be enough to make a significant reduction in the noise escaping from the BC gap that a suppressor could be effective. Any comments?

 

[rwsmith]

This was pioneered by.....

On most revolvers the barrel cylinder gap makes it ineffective. However there have been some made that the cycle presses the cylinder against the barrel that possibly could work.

This was pioneered by the Russians and the only hitch was cost per unit.

 

[Dave Workman]

My all time favorite Hollywood impossible use of a suppressor on a revolver was in Magnum Force, when officer Davis shot a fellow officer in a parking garage and then twisted the suppressor and pulled it straight off a vent ribbed Colt Python with full underlugged barrel. Not to mention the fact that, that puny little suppressor would have been blown off the gun with the first shot and probably would have made more noise than without it.

HOGWASH! If you saw it in a movie, it MUST be real! Same as if you read it on the Internet!

Actually, this thread is incredibly well-timed. I'm working on a magazine story about suppressors and you've all provided me with some interesting observations..
Many Thx!

 

[WaMike]

I had a '95 Nagant for some years and before I could find any real ammo, I converted Winchester 32-20 brass using Lee dies (FWIW, easiest cartridge conversion ever). Of course, the brass was too short to enter the barrel, even when cocked, so some gases exited between the cylinder and barrel.

I then adjusted the bullet seater so that the bullet protruded from the cylinder, but not so far as to impede rotation. That helped a little, but the typical Nagant bullet was a 90-gr jacketed RN and I doubt it went into the barrel far enough.

So I found some cast bullets (NEI 98 gr. 32 Colt) which worked fairly well in closing the gas leaks.

Of course, by this time, Russia was selling genuine Nagant cartridges by the bushel basket, but in the meantime, I had fun playing. So much so that a neighbor, whose wife was Russian, had to have it. They're still playing with it, but have yet to fit a suppressor.