I know there’s arguments for dedicated suppressors and I have a dedicated for my main AR. For my backup and my .308 neither of which I use near as often I’d like to share a .30 cal. It occurred to me if I switch them back and forth, does poi shift every time I put it back on? Meaning, do I need to rezero every time? I’ll be using plan b mounts.
Just changed hosts on my polo 30. Recently moved. Went to academy to see if they have one, nope.
Should I want until I have one before firing a few rounds on a new rifle?
Set it on my trucks floor mat while it was hot and melted it. Scraped off the burnt rubber with a nail clipper.
I feel like doing my patriotic duty and finally picking up a suppressor today. Has the budget .30 cal question been settled yet?
I’m looking at the Polo 30, Enticer (which version?), and the Simple Man.
I’m probably just going to go with the cheapest option unless there’s a strong reason not to. Is there a best place to watch for deals, or is it more of a “buy it when you find it” kind of thing?
Edit: Rookie mistake forgetting this info: this is kind of an “extra” suppressor that will go back and forth between my .308 bolt and backup/secondary AR. I already have a Rhino S on my other AR that I’m happy with.
I filed a Form 1 on a suppressor back in April and didn't get approved until July 1. 82 days. What really got under my skin was that I filed it on a trust ATF had already cleared twice that spring, because two Form 4s on that exact trust got approved the month before. Same trust, same single responsible person, nothing new for anyone to look at. The two Form 4s sailed through. The Form 1 just sat there.
That's what sent me down the rabbit hole. Last month I posted (and you all were engaged with) "The Two-Queue Regime," a pile of community-reported wait data showing Form 1 and Form 4 acting like two completely different agencies. A few of you asked for an update once the spring filings aged and I had some actual tracking history behind me, so here's where things stand. Everything below is community-reported approval data (2,819 records now). It's a sample, not ATF's own books — though this month I finally got to check it against their books, which is point 4.
If you run a trust on Form 4, your wait roughly doubled in February and never came back down. Splitting Form 4 out by the month you filed instead of lumping it all together, the gap between individual and trust medians runs 11, 20, 22.5, 20, 21 days from January to May. Trusts settled in about three weeks behind individuals and have stayed there four months straight. The silver lining is that Form 4 trust is dead consistent. My tracker has tagged it "stable" every single day for 23 days while everything else bounces around as "volatile." Slower lane, most predictable number in the whole set.
The Form 1 slowdown hasn't let up. Last time I flagged Form 1 waits locking into a tight 60-plus-day band in February and said I couldn't tell yet whether it'd break once later filings caught up. April's fully in now. It didn't break. April Form 1 individuals sit at a 60-day median; April Form 1 trusts hit 77, the worst month anywhere in the data. My own 82 days lands right in that band, so I promise I'm not just reading other people's numbers off a screen here. The daily tracking is where it really shows. The oldest Form 1 filing month still clearing in any real volume hasn't budged off March 2026 in 23 straight days. The calendar rolled from mid-June to July and the Form 1 frontier didn't move an inch, so it just fell another month further behind. Form 4 at least crawled forward from April to May around the 17th.
May's Form 1 numbers look better. Don't buy it yet. May's sitting around a 31-day median, way under April's 60, and I know how tempting it is to read that as a turnaround. It isn't. Anything filed late May that's headed for a normal 60-day Form 1 wait physically can't show up as approved until late July, so all we're seeing right now is the fast handful that already cleared. Same trap I wrote a whole section about last time. Ask me again in August.
ATF's own numbers say the same thing, and, honestly, they match mine closer than I expected. ATF refreshed their processing-times page on June 1. Two things stood out. One, their published segment times land almost dead on the community medians: Form 4 individual 8 days (I've got 4–8), Form 4 trust 25 (I've got about 26), Form 1 individual eFile 62 (my April number was 60). A bunch of people voluntarily reporting their approvals really shouldn't line up with the government's internal figures that tightly, but it does, and that's about the best sanity check I could ask for. Two, the thing I could never see from approval reports alone: so far in 2026, ATF has finalized 67% of the Form 1s that came in the door (108,608 of 161,478) versus 93% of the Form 4s (764,749 of 819,481). Form 4 is roughly keeping up with its own intake. Form 1 is running a third behind.
So why Form 1 and not Form 4? Two ideas, and the ATF numbers helped me sort out which one actually holds up.
The one I'm pretty confident about is just how the two forms get processed. A Form 1 is a make, so a person at ATF has to actually sit down and review it. A Form 4 these days is usually an eFiled can transfer that runs through a mostly automated, background-check pipeline (their own median there is 8 days). That's really the whole story behind 93% cleared vs 67%: they aren't the same kind of work. Add the January 1 tax change ($200 down to $0 on cans, SBRs, SBSs, AOWs) as a wave of new filings, and the form that needs a human on every single one is exactly where you'd expect the pile to build. My own filing is a decent little case study for this. The trust was already vetted on those two Form 4s, so there was genuinely nothing new to review, and it still took 82 days. The holdup was never the trust paperwork. It's the Form 1 make review itself.
The other idea I threw out last time, I'm walking back. I'd figured a free make-stamp would pull in a wave of junk filings (SBR configs nobody's ever going to build, people filing just because it's free now) and gum up Form 1 specifically. Clean theory. The ATF counts just don't back it up: Form 1 isn't even a high-volume form, Form 4 outnumbers it something like 5 to 1, and I've got no prior-year numbers to show Form 1 intake actually spiked. So, I'm knocking that down to "maybe a small piece of it" and leaving it there. The processing-type explanation stands fine on its own.
No predictions, same as last time. Just what moved, what didn't, and what I genuinely can't say yet.
Picked up some exploding targets, gun was a 10/22 carbon with an Ocl ti can ammo was cci 40grain 1050 subs. One of the targets wasn’t that impressive so this is two of taped together.
Not mine, just an in stock photo from online. Anyone else’s Rhodie’s look this bad? Or is this a “rare” terrible print/finish job?
TLDR: It's extremely impressive and I would recommend it to most people.
Alright, so the host is an unmodified Geissle 11.5 Super Duty. I fired probably 6 mags through the Rhodie 6k today. This rifle previously had a CAT Alleycat 556 using the Spooky mount, but I also have alot of time with my Hux cans, and a Surefire RC2, so any comparisons will be made to those. I am using a Comstock titanium Plan B mount and a recessed muzzle brake. All firing was done at an indoor range, with earpro on.
First things first, the length and weight are truly impressive. I didn't bother to weigh before installing the Plan B mount but with it, I was at 14.4 ounces. Massive weight savings over my CAT.
Sound to me was extremely impressive. Not just "good for a tiny can". It sounded great. Would have no idea it was a sub 5" suppressor just hearing it.
Flash was present sometimes. Not visible to me, but I took a video from the side and there was first round flash, and occasionally got a little jet. More than acceptable for my uses, I don't think I'll even be able to see it under NODS.
Gas was present, but never debilitating. I could pretty easily fire 6-8 rounds rapidly and at worst I would feel it in my eyes or nose, but never once coughed, had to close my eyes, etc. Definitely not what I would call getting gassed out like with my RC2. I consider myself fairly sensitive to gas as well.
My only extra thought is that it seemed like it got really hot faster than typical printed cans I've been using for a good while now. Could have been because I was simply firing faster today, but it just felt like it. I have a WB on a 13.9" ADM and I would say it's a little gassier than that.
From my experience the Alleycat is still the king of all factors if you don't mind the weight penalty. That being said, I do think I like the Rhodie 6k better simply for the form factor that still maintains excellent performance. Yes it's gassier, but not so much so that I can look past every other benefit.
Looking at a few different sipressors for my 10/22 carbon...I'm not super concerned about the absolute quietest but best for POI shift and grouping. For reference, I've been running a SF RC2 for years on my 5.56 builds and am looking for that quality with minimal POI shift and accuracy changes. Any good recommendations?
Just took this bad boy out to the range today. there was no perceptible combustion noise. In order the three loudest parts were: action noise, impact, and the whisper quiet suppressor hiss. Zero first round pop as well. Zero. I couldn’t believe my ears. I think it was about as loud as a Red Ryder BB gun truly.
I ordered my SAW Shiv on May 1 (confirmed via email from SAW). They listed a “1-6 week wait time” (still do actually). I’m after week 9 here with no update. I emailed them to inquire after week 7 (I felt that was appropriate amount of time) and got no response. I then waited until week 8 and inquired again. This time I got a response (and very unprofessional it was). It stated:
“We are behind on orders. We could answer emails all day or get to work and ship out suppressors. We are excited to ship your suppressor. Sorry we miss a few emails here and there. If we addressed all of them, we wouldn't have time to pack and ship orders. I hope you can understand; for us, it's one or the other right now, not both. “
Am I crazy, or is this the poorest customer service ever?
This is my 1st suppressor from Stealth additive works, and will certainly be my last.
Hi
I've been looking through some posts here and in r/nfa and was thinking of getting a suppressor for my 7"in 300blk ARP to start, and wanted to know some quiet cans
I was looking at the q tall boy, but I've heard it's really heavy and long, but I want something just as quiet, and some help would be appreciated.
Ive seen pewscience or pewtactical or whatever it's called and it was neat but it didn't have the price points of the supressors so I was kind of lost
My budget is around 950$
I'm considering a new 5.7 pistol, I haven't owned one before, curious how well it can be suppressed. What are your favorite cans?
I’ve dabbled with inexpensive meters at work (ie is an equipment room too loud for employees without hearing protection), and used apps on my phone, but to measure short duration impulses would a fairly high end microphone with a scope provide a waveform that could be characterized in excel with better accuracy? I already have a scope.
Thanks for any thoughts, I’m wanting to dabble in taking these measurements for comparisons (comparing suppressors, loads, calibers, barrel lengths, suppressed, unsuppressed, etc).
Coming soon. 4.75” long, 1.3” diameter, and 4.3 Oz. Little echoey with the embankments, but sounds pretty good. 👌🏻
Disclaimer * I'm not really sure where to post this, there isn't a dedicated ultrasonic cleaner sub.
Using the ziplock bag method, would I be able to clean a .22 suppressor, a BCG, and maybe some of my wife's jewelry? All individual bags with recommended solution and ratio etc. Or am I trying to do too much?
Analysis paralysis on this one. This and maybe occasionally on a Mkiv platform will be the only use for this can, bases are more than covered elsewhere.
I can get the Flow $200 cheaper, is the Katan worth the difference?
I’m hoping someone can sanity check my suppressor setup because I always seem to get lost once HUB adapters, blast chambers, and muzzle device lengths get involved.
I’m trying to run a SAW Tisha on my PWS MK114 with the factory pinned and welded PWS FRC 3-port compensator.
Here’s what I know:
• PWS told me the FRC extends about 1.21”.
• The Tisha’s blast chamber is approximately 1.52-1.54”.
• The Tisha came with the standard mount and muzzle device.
My questions are:
• Will the supplied PUB mount work with the FRC 3-port, or do I need an extended HUB adapter?
• Should I be looking at something like the PUB XL, Rearden Atlas XL, Comstock LPA, or Comstock HPA instead?
• Is there enough blast chamber clearance, or am I overlooking something?
For whatever reason, once I start trying to calculate HUB adapter depth, blast chamber length, and muzzle device protrusion, my brain completely checks out.
I know Comstock has a really nice fitment calculator, but it only includes their own muzzle devices. Since my FRC is pinned and welded to the rifle, I can’t just plug it into their tool.
I’m just trying to figure out exactly what I need to make the Tisha play nicely with my MK114 without using or buying the wrong adapter.
Any guidance from people who have already gone down this road would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!