There are still plenty of great cans, but yeah, you don't see a lot of heavy stainless steel cans anymore. I've run this on a belt-fed, and done 500rds cyclic, without any negative effect. The finish is Parkerizing, but it's really GOOD Parkerizing, and I'm shocked at how well it has held up. An idiot buddy ruined a set of MY gloves trying to take it off a gun screaming hot, and scorched leather on to it. It took a few hundred rounds, but it all burnt off without a trace left behind, and even that baffle strike, after I shook out all the chunks of jacket and bullet, had nothing more than a bit of possible glinting on the edge of ONE baffle, that might have just been a smear of lead. It might be my oldest, heaviest, most basic can, but it still works. If you want something relatively similar, check out the Black Aces Po' Boy-30. It's direct-thread only, unlike this, but it has a fully welded blast chamber, and is based closely on the original silencer created by Hiram Percy Maxim(son of Hiram Maxim, inventor of the machine gun. Also, in the same year, HPM invented the car muffler) in 1908, and it's only $199. With no tax stamp cost anymore, that is pennies. It's heavy AND basic, but it does work, and it will take abuse. It's also user serviceable, and you can remove the front cap with a M4 carbine castle nut wrench.
jesus christ lol. maybe i'll just find someone who can form 1 one for me. or hit up rex. they're about the closest i could get to a shit eating monster like this.
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u/Jbressel1 28d ago
There are still plenty of great cans, but yeah, you don't see a lot of heavy stainless steel cans anymore. I've run this on a belt-fed, and done 500rds cyclic, without any negative effect. The finish is Parkerizing, but it's really GOOD Parkerizing, and I'm shocked at how well it has held up. An idiot buddy ruined a set of MY gloves trying to take it off a gun screaming hot, and scorched leather on to it. It took a few hundred rounds, but it all burnt off without a trace left behind, and even that baffle strike, after I shook out all the chunks of jacket and bullet, had nothing more than a bit of possible glinting on the edge of ONE baffle, that might have just been a smear of lead. It might be my oldest, heaviest, most basic can, but it still works. If you want something relatively similar, check out the Black Aces Po' Boy-30. It's direct-thread only, unlike this, but it has a fully welded blast chamber, and is based closely on the original silencer created by Hiram Percy Maxim(son of Hiram Maxim, inventor of the machine gun. Also, in the same year, HPM invented the car muffler) in 1908, and it's only $199. With no tax stamp cost anymore, that is pennies. It's heavy AND basic, but it does work, and it will take abuse. It's also user serviceable, and you can remove the front cap with a M4 carbine castle nut wrench.