How to Build Military Grade Suppressors Paperback – June 1, 2003

Hey this is pretty good for a book that you can not use to do anything with right? Can't build anything from this book or you go to jail right? Sorry I am going to write my Doctoral Thesis on the Art Of Silencers. I think I can make them about ten times as quite as they are already. I am going to do it with smoke and mirrors. or pianos. I mean if you drop a Pi naner from three stories high and it hits the listener does it make a sound??? What happens if you have a way to bring the sound of the bang about 50000hz higher in Frequency. Some of this is not the yes I know but the more like how do we do it. I think me know how now me wantum chance. They are not going to come arrest medray

Pretty clear instructions with pictures about making a pretty serious suppressor. You need a welder and know how to use it however. Out of my capacity to do. No welder and no experience.From the pictures, the author isn't much of a welder either so maybe anyone can do the job.Scary part is installing the suppressor without an exit hole, firing an armor piercing round through the thing to locate the exit. Not for me either. But it looks like it's a workable device for large caliber guns so have at it.

The book was very informative but I found some of the terminology and name for the parts required to build the suppressor confusing. Like "freezer" plugs... never heard of them! I bought the book as part of my interest in firearms rather than a desire to build one however if I did, some research by the writer into terminology would go a long way to making the review 5*.

Very informative. The author seems to understand the subject very well.Explains the use and abilities of suppressors and the theories behind them.Written for someone above my level of skill but I learned a lot.

Interesting book on the mechanics behind suppressors

The first reviewer must be the author himself. This book is for someone with a death wish. Quotations below are from the book.First, the author makes no attempt whatsoever to discuss the legalities of silencers. Silencers are legal in 36 U.S. States and a BATF Form 1 must be filed and a $200 making tax must be paid to the Dept. of Justice, BATF & E. in Martinsburg, WV. Only after the approved tax paid Form 1 is received from BATF can an individual begin to build a legal silencer otherwise you are subject to a $250,000 fine and 10 years in Federal Prison for an unregestered NFA weapon.Secondly, the silencers designs are no where near military grade not even for a 3rd world country making improvised weapons in the midst of a civil war. They are circa 1970's baffle technology.Far more important & worse, the materials specifed are grossly unsafe.For example, the .223 silencer design starts with chainlink fence post for the outer tube. No sane individual would ever use seamed tubing for a silencer that is required to contain the pressures associated with a center fire cartridges let alone a tubing that has NO structural rating whatsoever. In addition, the wall of such tubing is too thin to endure the heat that must be dissapated by the silencer. Heat plus high pressure, well we've all chewed bubblegum, and blown bubbles. In addition, the tubing is galvanized and a structually safe weld cannot be made on galvanized material without removal of the galvanized coating.The author specifies soft automotive freeze plugs for the baffles.Next the author specifies "special hole punching ammo" to bore the baffles. This ammo is made, in the case of the .223 silencer by taking a standard .223 cartridge and removing the projectile "with pliers" then dumping the powder out, "raking it into a line cheech & chong style", dividing the powder into fourths and placing one forth of the powder back into the case, reinsterting the projectile "and crimping it in place with pliers". Then the silencer is installed on the rifle, wrapped in a towel, and the round is fired "into a block of wood" so as to drill the silencer concentric to the bore axis, or kill the builder with shrapnel, flip a coin.To make matters even worse, the author specifies 2.5" muffler pipe (seamed non structual) for a .50 BMG silencer!!A Lincoln "Buzz Box" is the welder of choice for silencer construction.The book is not even usefull as reference material, best to stick with the series by Alan C. Paulson for a technical reference. There are far better examples on the internet of quality designs along with the legal guidelines neccessary for building a silencer.

again not enough detail I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE BETTER INFO

There's some pretty good info in here to build your own suppressor. You need some good skills however, like knowledge on different powder charges for bullets & welding skills to successfully make one, but it is fairly easy to do. This is a great book if you want a suppressor for your gun but remember, you need a threaded barrel...!