Sound Moderators
We also supply and fit full bore sound moderators by:
- Reflex - Suppressors- T8 & T4, ASE - UTRA jet-z, sak -products from .17 Rem - 300 Win Mag
- Pes - Aluminium .17HRM - .222 - .223. Steel & Stainless steel, over the barrel from .17 Rem - 300 Win Mag
- Lei - Standard and Compact
- Wildcat Custom - All Stainless Steel All Calibres
Full in-house fitting service in UNF, UNEF and metric threads. This is accomplished on our specialist lathes; we use a unique system for machining muzzlethreads. We do NOT use revolving centres or mandrels down the barrel as this may damage the rifling or the crown.
We machine barrels through the head-stock held in to specialist manufactured four-jaw chucks, mounted with bronze jaws. Concentricity is achieved via long-armed internal dial gauges and adjustments are made to zero the bore axis. Not all barrels are ground concentric to the bore axis. The outside diameter could vary up to 0.006".
We endeavour to have your rifle threaded and returned within an impressive 48-hour turnaround. This excludes (if required) the rifle being re-proofed.
AU jet-ZTM has been developed in close cooperation with several user groups. Its attenuation properties are absolutely the top in the market.
Its compact size and light weight maintain all shooting characteristics almost unchanged. Full-steel patented construction ensures maximum durability.
To be effective, full-bore rifle suppressors have to be rather bulky. Adding a suppressor to a full-bore rifle normally increases the overall length by about twelve inches, making the weapon awkward and muzzle-heavy. The suppressed weapon doesn't fit in a standard rifle case, so the sound moderator must be removed for storage and transport. Shortening the barrel by a few inches helps a bit, but if the barrel is shortened too much, the bullet muzzle velocity and trajectory are adversely affected. To overcome these and other problems, Finnish designer Juha Hartikka invented the Reflex Suppressor
We have seen a significant noise reduction when fox shooting at night; our results have increased, with those old wise foxes.
What is a Reflex Suppressor?
The patented Reflex design of suppressor (or sound moderator) has the expansion chamber sleeved back over the front four to eight inches of the barrel. This reduces the overall length of the suppressed weapon, and improves its balance and handling qualities.
Why use a full-bore rifle suppressor?
To save your hearing and, if you use a rifle for work, to comply with the UK Health and Safety legislation. Independent tests with a 308 Winchester hunting rifle confirm that Reflex Suppressors do reduce the sound pressure at the shooter's ear to well below the British Health and Safety Executive's "peak action level" of 140 dB. Above this level, HSE regulations require employers to reduce workers' exposure as far as reasonably practicable by means other than ear protectors. This legal requirement also extends to self-employed persons.
In practice, depending on the amount of bullet flight noise reflected back to the shooter by trees or fences etc., a full-bore hunting rifle with a good suppressor sounds about the same as a high velocity 22 LR rim-fire rifle.
PES Full Bore Stainless Steel "Over the Barrel" Sound Moderators
Standard threads are 1/2" UNF 20TPI & 5/8" UNF 18TPI. Other threads and moderator lengths are available to special order. These moderators only add 140mm (12 baffles) to the overall length of the rifle when fitted and the rear of the moderator is supported on a delrin bush. Available in aluminium, mild steel and stainless steel.
You have the choice of different baffle settings, from 8 to 12 baffles. These stainless steel robust sound moderators have stood the test and in my opinion are one of the best available on the market today!
Wildcat Preditor 8 Full Bore Sound Moderators
Made from Stainless Steel and high grade Alloy comes as standard with 8 Baffel design - 4 and 12 Baffel designs are also available.
Wildcat Preditor 8 Variations Specifications
Overall Length |
Rear Tube Length |
|
| Overall Compact Version | 212mm |
112mm |
| Overall Styer Version | 250mm |
150mm |
| Overall Length Predator 8 | 300mm |
200mm |
| Plus 1 | 350mm |
250mm |
| Plus 2 | 400mm |
300mm |
| Plus 3 | 450mm |
350mm |
Diameter 50mm all models
All versions accomodate up to 29mm barrel diameter.
| Protrusion Forwards | 4 Baffles | 70mm |
| 8 Baffles | 100mm | |
| 12 Baffles | 130mm | |
| Weight | Compact Version | 555gms |
| Styer Version | 621gms | |
| Predator 8 | 690gms | |
| Plus 1 | 768gms | |
| Plus 2 | 846gms | |
| Plus 3 | 924gms | |
| Standard Threads | UNF | 1/2, 9/16, 5/8 |
| UNEF | 1/2, 9/16, 5/8 | |
| Metric | 14 x 1, 15 x 1, 17 x 1, 18 x 1 | |
| with spigot Metric | 15 x 1, 17 x 1 | |
| Distance required from back of thread back over barrel | ||
| Compact | 112mm plus derlin bush 10mm | |
| Styer | 150mm plus derlin bush 10mm | |
| Standard | 200mm plus derlin bush 10mm | |
| Plus 1 | 250mm plus derlin bush 10mm | |
| Plus 2 | 300mm plus derlin bush 10mm | |
| Plus 3 | 400mm plus derlin bush 10mm | |
