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How accurate are Banish suppressors?
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<blockquote data-quote="KY_Windage" data-source="post: 1924024" data-attributes="member: 108082"><p>I caught a no-breeze day a couple of months ago and with that same rifle and suppressor I shot these groups at 100 yds.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://imageshack.com/i/pmhltMxmj" target="_blank"><img src="https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/800x600q90/922/hltMxm.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>My buddies and I always have a longest distance contest on p-dogs, but it has to be a clean (DRT) kill and it has to be the first shot in that area (no walking your shots in on one and then moving over 20' and hitting another). This guy won last year by standing up at 504 yds and facing me long enough for me to check my table for 500 yds (said 7 moa), crank up and let one rip. Same Banish on my Cooper 204:</p><p></p><p><a href="https://imageshack.com/i/poU1WJXZj" target="_blank"><img src="https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/800x600q90/924/U1WJXZ.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p><a href="https://imageshack.com/i/poQyGHoxj" target="_blank"><img src="https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/800x600q90/924/QyGHox.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>Banish says to clean every 100 rounds and I admit that cleaning that often is a bit of a pain. But I do see an enlargement in my groups if I go more than a few hundred rounds without cleaning, so it is worth it to me to do the cleaning. The boiling vinegar out on the deck does most of the cleaning work anyway.</p><p></p><p>To ensure repeatability I am careful to re-assemble exactly the same way every time. I line up the ears that lock the baffles together with a certain line of writing on the outside of the tube. The whole stack rotates a bit when I do the final tightening of the end-cap, but it rotates the same every time. Anyway my scope zero does not change no matter how many times I take the Banish apart and put it back on. I don't know that orienting the stack the same every time actually makes any difference. It just makes sense and only adds about 2 seconds to the re-assembly time, so why not?</p><p></p><p>It is very difficult to figure out "which suppressor is the most accurate," because even if you shoot with the same rifle, ammo, rest, shooter, etc., you still have a "tuner effect" just from the weight addition. And, if you have ever played with a tuner you know that one can improve the accuracy of a barrel, but it can also make it worse, depending on what you dial it to, and the differences are huge. Unless the compared suppressors weighed and balanced exactly the same, you really could not tell.</p><p></p><p>But, if I thought there was a suppressor out there that was more accurate than the Banish, I would own it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KY_Windage, post: 1924024, member: 108082"] I caught a no-breeze day a couple of months ago and with that same rifle and suppressor I shot these groups at 100 yds. [URL='https://imageshack.com/i/pmhltMxmj'][IMG]https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/800x600q90/922/hltMxm.jpg[/IMG][/URL] My buddies and I always have a longest distance contest on p-dogs, but it has to be a clean (DRT) kill and it has to be the first shot in that area (no walking your shots in on one and then moving over 20' and hitting another). This guy won last year by standing up at 504 yds and facing me long enough for me to check my table for 500 yds (said 7 moa), crank up and let one rip. Same Banish on my Cooper 204: [URL='https://imageshack.com/i/poU1WJXZj'][IMG]https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/800x600q90/924/U1WJXZ.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL='https://imageshack.com/i/poQyGHoxj'][IMG]https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/800x600q90/924/QyGHox.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Banish says to clean every 100 rounds and I admit that cleaning that often is a bit of a pain. But I do see an enlargement in my groups if I go more than a few hundred rounds without cleaning, so it is worth it to me to do the cleaning. The boiling vinegar out on the deck does most of the cleaning work anyway. To ensure repeatability I am careful to re-assemble exactly the same way every time. I line up the ears that lock the baffles together with a certain line of writing on the outside of the tube. The whole stack rotates a bit when I do the final tightening of the end-cap, but it rotates the same every time. Anyway my scope zero does not change no matter how many times I take the Banish apart and put it back on. I don't know that orienting the stack the same every time actually makes any difference. It just makes sense and only adds about 2 seconds to the re-assembly time, so why not? It is very difficult to figure out "which suppressor is the most accurate," because even if you shoot with the same rifle, ammo, rest, shooter, etc., you still have a "tuner effect" just from the weight addition. And, if you have ever played with a tuner you know that one can improve the accuracy of a barrel, but it can also make it worse, depending on what you dial it to, and the differences are huge. Unless the compared suppressors weighed and balanced exactly the same, you really could not tell. But, if I thought there was a suppressor out there that was more accurate than the Banish, I would own it. [/QUOTE]
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