So my bud got me a DonnyFL Emperor for my Bday and I just had to try it with the extension. Well folks if you want to only hear the action firing on an Impact this is the setup. No noise but the hammer and yes it is big and long but very effective. Will see if it effects accuracy this weekend.
How loud you perceive your gun as being will have a lot to do with what sort of sound reflective surfaces you have in front of you. Outside at long range is easy because there is basically nothing to reflect that sound back at you. A real challenge is to dryfire your rifle aimed flat and square to drywall 3 feet in front of your muzzle. So far I haven't found a setup yet where if you do that the hammer slap is still the loudest part. Maybe you have the first?
Just my 2c.
So my bud got me a DonnyFL Emperor for my Bday and I just had to try it with the extension. Well folks if you want to only hear the action firing on an Impact this is the setup. No noise but the hammer and yes it is big and long but very effective. Will see if it effects accuracy this weekend.
Thats quite a bit of overall volume you got at the end of the barrel there. What caliber are you shooting? When I had my Impact X .30, the stock moderator seemed to be enough to produce the same effect (obviously the pellet strikes sounded like a dump truck hitting a brick wall doing 60mph).
How loud you perceive your gun as being will have a lot to do with what sort of sound reflective surfaces you have in front of you. Outside at long range is easy because there is basically nothing to reflect that sound back at you. A real challenge is to dryfire your rifle aimed flat and square to drywall 3 feet in front of your muzzle. So far I haven't found a setup yet where if you do that the hammer slap is still the loudest part. Maybe you have the first?
Just my 2c.
That has nothing in common with firing a projectile which keeps the can sealed until the pressure drops. You'll always get much more sound dry firing.
I make caliber specific baffle kits for the OEM FX moderators that make them quieter than anything I've seen on the market. You can add more 3" (75mm) long center tubes to make them even quieter. A double center tube 7 3/4" (197mm) on my 100+ fpe .30 Impact makes it way more quiet that the Ronin I had on it. The difference is like night and day.
So my bud got me a DonnyFL Emperor for my Bday and I just had to try it with the extension. Well folks if you want to only hear the action firing on an Impact this is the setup. No noise but the hammer and yes it is big and long but very effective. Will see if it effects accuracy this weekend.
Having tested both, you're absolutely right that dryfiring in most designs is louder. That said it is not as much louder as you might expect, at least with the the majority of designs out there. If your designs primarily rely on very tight baffle tolerances to function, it is very possible yours become significantly louder when dryfired. I've never tested such a concentricity-dependent design though. I have however done a lot of test shooting indoors, both with pellets and dryfire, and the point I was trying to make was simply that having a sound reflective surface directly in front of your gun, dryfire or not, will make it sound substantially louder to the shooter.
And, of course, I wouldn't want to suggest to most people that they try putting pellets into their walls just to make sure they're happy with the sound.
