Thread: WE LOST

One point with the permanently attached suppressors, How do you get on with cleaning and storage? I have seen a number of instances where, due to the suppressor not being removed, the powder residue corroded the muzzle to the extent where barrels have needed to be rethreaded and re crowned to get them to shoot. In fact one needed to be clamped and wrenched off in order to break the suppressor loose and we had to tell the owner that the rifle barrel will survive but there is no promise made that the suppressor would survive removal. If you cannot take it off, you cannot clean it properly and thus risk damaging your rifle.

To play devils advocate, the only people who seem to want "permanently fitted" suppressors seem to be people who have shortened their rifles to the extent that they are no longer legally long enough to be rifles. (IE under 762mm) . I ALWAYS remove the suppressors for storage and cleaning so that there is no powder residue to cause corrosion to the rifle. Thus anything under 762mm would be stored as a pistil if I had anything that short. (I dont, just to be clear.)