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Hunting Rifle: Anyone Else Have No Desire for a Silencer?
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<blockquote data-quote="Longtine88" data-source="post: 2361712" data-attributes="member: 116240"><p>Well I do use suppressors hunting half the time. I pretty much always use them when I am with someone hunting. For hunting I really don't see the loss of performance or accuracy using a suppressor. The only negative I see is the hassle of getting one and they add mass to your rifle. Example.......son and I were in the heat of the moment on an elk hunt this fall. Had split second to shoot or not shoot. Son says shoot.....I shot.....the muzzle brake was not more than 12' from his ear. His ear is ringing today still. My bad. If I had one of my suppressors on then that would not have happened. Other advantage is they really don't spook game. 2 days ago I was glassing a river bottom and I was on top of a hill. 505 yards away a coyote came out among 15 deer. 5 bucks. One nice one I was watching for my kids to shoot the next day. So I dialed in on the yote and from a prone position dropped him in his tracks. One of the deer looked his direction after the shot. The others never checked up. So the animals are not spooked with them. In areas where there is more dense population of people they seem to keep the peace more also. Other than the hassle of getting them I really don't see any negative and the positives way out weigh them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Longtine88, post: 2361712, member: 116240"] Well I do use suppressors hunting half the time. I pretty much always use them when I am with someone hunting. For hunting I really don't see the loss of performance or accuracy using a suppressor. The only negative I see is the hassle of getting one and they add mass to your rifle. Example.......son and I were in the heat of the moment on an elk hunt this fall. Had split second to shoot or not shoot. Son says shoot.....I shot.....the muzzle brake was not more than 12' from his ear. His ear is ringing today still. My bad. If I had one of my suppressors on then that would not have happened. Other advantage is they really don't spook game. 2 days ago I was glassing a river bottom and I was on top of a hill. 505 yards away a coyote came out among 15 deer. 5 bucks. One nice one I was watching for my kids to shoot the next day. So I dialed in on the yote and from a prone position dropped him in his tracks. One of the deer looked his direction after the shot. The others never checked up. So the animals are not spooked with them. In areas where there is more dense population of people they seem to keep the peace more also. Other than the hassle of getting them I really don't see any negative and the positives way out weigh them. [/QUOTE]
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