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Open offer - if you own one of these new Montanas and just can't stomach the threaded barrel I will buy it from you for a price that just stings a little. I will then slap a Silencerco ASR muzzle brake/suppressor mount on it and run my Omega can with blatant disregard for all things traditional bolt action holy. And not give-a-sheit the whole time

All gun owners here in New Jersey are suppressed.

My 6.5 Creed is threaded for one of these cans. I think they make sense for volume shooting, targets, varmints,sett;ed areas, where noise is an issue.

For example,I'd look into one for woodchuck shooting.

But I'd never try to get one on a plane on a traveling hunt. Not worth the hassle for a couple shots at BG.

I seriously doubt you are going to see these things on rifles of any overwhelming majority of BG hunters nation wide. As usual there will be a few gun geeks who do it, but that's all,unless mandated by law somehow.

And that 12 oz suppressor will be in addition to....2pounds of scope and mounts, and another 16 oz of bipod. How much stuff does anyone want to hang on a 6 pd. rifle?

Sounds like a great way to make a nice, light Montana less attractive.

I'll pass unless my Creedmoor dictates otherwise.

I agree Bob.... to an extent. I don't hunt in Nazi states, and it's not like a suppressor is a Class III FIREARM.... they're a Class III DEVICE.... therefore the transportation rules are far more lax.

I don't think the "majority" of hunters will ever use them.... but there's more and more every day. Legislation is headed the direction of vastly increased freedoms for suppressor use. Once you shoot with someone who's using one, you realize what a huge difference they make.... and can truly respect why their use is ENCOURAGED in any other place where you can legally own a gun.

Only people who don't own a suppressor.... can justify all the reasons not to own, or hunt, with one. Once you own one, you realize ALL the benefits.... and you look for a way to have it on everything. I'll give up 4", 5", hell 8" of barrel length if I have to now..... as long as I can thread the muffler on the end.

Once the can is attached the rifles are typically more accurate, more pleasant to shoot, and FAR less disruptive to the "environment" if you will. All good things.... both in volume shooting.... and BG hunting.

There are all kinds of videos out there of guys in New Zeland and such.... killing Tahr and Chammios high in the Alps (country that makes the Rockies look like the Pallouse). The vast majority of those guys are hinting 16"-20" rifles with suppressors.... doesn't seem to be a hindrance to them.

My dad always used to say: "You can't find out if something works.... by not doing it.".... seems appropriate to this topic.

DS your father was right. the noise reduction alone would help keep a lot of ranges back here open that were closed due to noise pollution.


i do think it interesting that a lot of legislatures are open to the concept.

Here in CO, or in general?

Me too. Guilty of charge one. I hunt from a blind, either stationary or improvised, overlooking a feeder, food plot, water, or game trail. The latter is my favorite. I have a spot that overlooks a white tail super highway. I will be not far from either a truck or my Kawasaki Mule. I don't walk very far any more and not even up much of a hill, must less a mountain. I have another spot to park and ambush mulies.

As to charge two, forget it. Life is too short to hunt with an ugly gun. $500 will come close to covering the scope and mounts on most of them, but not the rifles. Even my Marlin Glenfield wears a nice 3X Leupold.

I'm open to a surpressor on some rifles, but not on others. Seems to me that it would make a truck gun cumbersome.

There were some law enforcement uses for cans and tranquilizer guns in my previous life.

Good hunting,

New ZEALAND has rougher country than the Rockies?????

New Zealand's highest mountain is about 12000 ft. above sea level and the Canadian Rockies higher peaks are 11,000-12,000+. In addition, Canada, is FAR "wilder" and the climate much harsher than NZ and they have NO dangerous animals.

Sooooo, I tend to doubt that remark.

Yep, each to his own, but, I do not want an additional 12 oz of ANYTHING when hunting in the BC mountains and try to cut weight anywhere I can.

If you guys would learn how to hunt from the road, you could bring lots of things that weigh 12oz.

Lots and lots.




Dave

It ain't about how high.... it's about how fast you gotta get high! The southern alps are as rugged as any "hunting country" on the planet.

Hell, the Mt. Baker Wilderness in WA is way rougher than anything I've experienced at 10,000-12,000 feet here in CO.

The BC Coast Mountains and the Purcells-Selkirks of SE BC will match or usually beat ANY place in North America. I have friends from NZ here and they are awestruck by how tough, wet, cold and steep the country is.

I have spent my life in BC's and Alberta's mountains, alone for months on end without breaks and in temps to -40; NZ is not nearly as harsh and rescue is much closer if you get into the schitt.

Whatever, mountains are all good, could not imagine living in "flat" country.

That's true! LOL!

This definitely doesn't suck....

If you're gonna hunt near a sandbox, you're gonna need a suppressor.




Dave

No it doesn't

Does that have a threaded barrel?

I just JB Welded it on the end. How many shots you think it'll last?

Laffin....

Shoud look into the ASE UTRA SL5i, suppresor, if its available in the states.

Very compact, stainless steel, 12oz, and good finnish quality.