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When and why did you change your mind about using them while hunting?

Some interesting thoughts on suppressors.

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I don’t bother with them on big game hunting rifles. I only hunt deer and elk and only get one of each per season. My ears don’t get subjected to more than a few shots a year without ear protection.

Point taken, but these old codgers with their 99’s, 88’s and pre-64’s ARE my peer group and they aren’t buying and hunting with the threaded AR’s and aren’t threading those 65 year old collectable hunting rifles.

And I doubt many, regardless of peer group, with a brain cell operating, are . . . .

I completely agree with you in that regard. There's a place for threaded barrels and suppressors, and classic rifles aren't that place. I've come full circle with suppressors over the past few years. Use them in certain applications, but shooting non-suppressed guns is too much fun and find myself shooting the originals more and more often as the suppressor craze wanes within my soul.

I went over to Glasgow last week and started the paperwork on my first suppressor.


The guy working at D&G helped me through the process and told me it would hopefully be about an 8 month wait for everything to clear.


Does that sound about right or overly optimistic?

With this pistol brace rile fiasco likely to consume eFiling resources, who knows how long it could take.

Which suppressor did you get?

That’s in the ballpark . I waited longer prior to the E filesystem. 8 to 10 months is what my dealer is currently seeing. That could get better since the e file system was supposed to be way shorter wait.

240 to 260 days is what I hear most often but as others said - coming brace bs might be a lot of bs in the system pushing things out. I 100% believe they know who has what and a smart department would be, basically, assigning a slew of people to work the braces only as quickly and as much as possible to not interrupt other business. But it's the .gov and they literally have only 1 person to approve beer labels (all labels must be approved) - I'd be shocked if they have any "extra" attention to the brace issue and this will end up a cluster.

Thanks gentlemen, I was wondering if the brace regulation change(or whatever is going on) would slow things up.



Kingston, I went with this one in 7.62

https://www.silencershop.com/cgs-hyperion-k.html

That should be plenty handy!

There's a thread on Reddit r/NFA where people report approval times. It's a good snapshot of how things are flowing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NFA/comments/100zxly/eform_4_approval_megathread_january_2023/

I submitted the stuff for mine in June 2021. Got it in August of 2022.

Following the monthly megathread will be helpful as you approach the 250-260 day mark (for now). I submitted my eForm 4 on 4/22/22. Was watching the megathread only to see approvals submitted before mine in Apr 22. Got on the phone and called them last Thurs, 1/19/23, only to find out that my form had been approved 1/13/23 - 266 days. Apparently they were having an issue with outbound approval notification emails, and weren't in too much of a hurry to fix it. Went down to my FFL/SOT and asked them to check for approval thru their eForm access (individuals cannot see status or progress thru their access). Low and behold, not only was my stamp there, but so 4 or 5 others. They hadn't seen any emails from the NFA Branch indicating any approvals either. I went home with my suppressor after 273 days.

FWIW, and as has been already mentioned, the SBR/pistol brace fiasco is likely to upend the whole process, and NOT in a good way. I have another that I did the eForm 4 on a couple of days ago. If I have in my hands by this time next year, I'll be surprised.

Sam you’ll love having a can… I’ve had mine(Sandman K) for about two years now and wish I’d have had it sooner. Need another now. You’ll find yourself wanting to chop all your barrels a bit though.

Want either an Otter Creek Polonium or Rex Silentium MG7 now, am on the fence but need to act or I’ll be years out … ugh

I got 3 at once. Took 11 months. Set up a trust. If you don't start you'll never have one.

As for questions:

length and weight would hinder a jump shot.

As soon as I tried one, I knew it was the way to go.

Really depends how they're set up. I don't use the suppressor cover for hunting so that'd reduce this one another 5-ish ounces.
With can, total barrel length = 22".

Good point. I had the barrels cut to compensate for the suppressor so if I took it off the balance would be off. I think most of the length weight and unhandy comments are made by people who are using heavy suppressors and/or not cutting their barrels short enough. I would have a poor opinion on hunting with a suppressor if I had a 24” barrel.

I’ve Been waiting since June ‘22 on an eform….


You do the SlincerShop kiosk?


That makes the process a breeze.
Esp the finger prints…