From:	Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject:	Gas Venting
Date:	Wed, 22 Sep 1999 11:17:15 +0200

According to dghost@****.com, at 1:32 on 22 Sep 99, the word on
the street was...

> As I understand it, you don't hear "the CRACK of a rifle" at all unless
> you break it over your knee.

Wouldn't you hear "the CRACK of a knee" instead? :)

> Instead, what you hear is the supersonic crack of the bullet.
> (Some/Most/All?) sniper rifles use *subsonic* rounds which are
> significantly quieter.

Some, and a very small number at that. Subsonic ammo does not go together
well with accurate, long-range shooting.

> As for how the Ranger Arms can have Gas Vent AND a silencer, instead of
> having one follow the other (which I doubt works), can you combine the
> two? In other words, can the Gas Vent have integral baffles to slow the
> gases to subsonic speeds?

I guess this thing is some kind of sound suppresser that has gas vent
holes cut into its forward (furthest away from the barrel) chamber(s), so
that gas is vented up to counteract the recoil, but only once it has
reached a subsonic velocity.

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