Anybody use one of these? Is it worth the extra $$ over a flashcan?

https://www.wittmachine.net/sme-sound-mitigation-equipment-slimline.html

Interesting..............buy one & make a report.

MM

there are some YouTube videos on it. Hard to tell how well it works on the video but everyone seems impressed with it.

Interesting.

Pardon my ignorance if you will, but what differentiates this from a suppressor?

ATF approval?

I wouldn't expect it to make sense.

I would expect that you are getting very little suppression, instead the noise is being redirected down range. At least that is my experience with the one linear comp that I used. Also, it is not sealed on one end, and doesn't really have anything that I think could be considered baffles.

Of course as Tyrone points out the ATF may decide differently at their pleasure.

It’s a sound director - it’s just longer and not sealed - so it bypasses the suppression legal requirements.

The baffles in the long tube will do somewhat of the same job as the can, but you’re not going to reach the same decimal reduction in that length as the true sealed design will.

Thanks.

Looking more closely at the comp assembly, I can see the slots that allow more gas out and qualify it as being unsealed, or whatever the correct term might be.

I have two of them.

If you are looking for suppressor, keep looking.

What the SME does do is push the concussion from the muzzle blast down range, and away from you and those shooting close to you.

My 18" .308 will rattle windows a couple miles away on a still night, while hunting hogs in a flat field. The SME takes the concussive blast away. Behind the gun is much better. Farther behind the gun is much, much better! I let my son use my thermal rig .308 on some hogs awhile back, and I was watching (listening) from about 150 yards behind him. He fired 3 shots, and the report was much less than I even expected. Now, in front of the muzzle, I'd expect to hear no difference, as that is where the sound is channeled.

A pretty graphic but simple demonstration can be seen in this video. I get the same results with the one on my .22lr. Makes it pretty quiet!

That phone call was a bit hilarious!😂

Case in point!

I'm thinking about putting one on a 7.5" 5.56 pistol.
Good use-case for these? I don't want to fsck with NFA cost, hassle & being on their list.

I've not tried them on any short barrels like that, but the physics are the same.

That being said, I've shot an SBR that was suppressed quite a bit. It had a 12" barrel. .223 caliber.

Even with the suppressor, that SBR was about as loud as my 18" .223 was unsuppressed.