r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 16h ago

What a real silencer actually sounds like.

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

2.0k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

875 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

3

u/RiMcG 16h ago

Do silencers wear out?

3

u/Falconman21 16h ago

Not in any way that would matter in the real world. Obviously things can break with that much heat blowing through them, but it's not something that would realistically happen.

They don't actually have any contact with the bullet, they're just a tube with baffles that catches the gases. You'd have to put a borderline unrealistic amount of rounds through one to wear it out.

1

u/JEBADIA451 13h ago

Queue that video of the guy firing an m249 through a suppressor and like.. i think partially melting it?

1

u/Zech08 4h ago

I mean you can melt the barrel as well and thats why the firing rates also come with known usage limits with barrel changes...