I get it; I’m not attacking you, just expressing my cautious attitude toward videos, which are, after all, advertisements.
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Yea, a decibel meter would have been nice, but I would think if it was noticeably louder to the ones doing the shooting., that would have been mentioned.
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Oh yeah for sure. The best thing anyone can do is go to a range demo day where multiple cans are being fired to hear them in person
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Likely so. As 1168 points out it is effectively an ad, but going on the assumption Mike/Garand Thumb isn’t going to be making enough to retire off being part of a scam on this one can’s sales I would lean toward it being an honest opinion from him.
Of course most of us have seen examples of a seller building an excellent reputation over years of honest dealings only to stop shipping items and destroy their reputation for a piddly amount of money so there is always that. 
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That could be true in one case, but multiple reviews never mention it either. So this makes the likelihood of that happening less likely.
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Since I am currently looking for a dedicated 5.56 can, I watch GT’s video of this suppressor several days ago. I’m looking for the lightest and quiestest can I can buy. Sofar the Rhino S is looking good. I’m in the woods alot, solight weight is a priority, blow ears neccesitates getting the quietest can Ican afford.
Like some of you, I want to see pewscience test it before commiting.
Well the “quietest” can isn’t always the quietest can for the shooter’s ear. In the old days, the clowns at AAC used to post nonsense about their tight bore cans being quieter. Maybe true for the rest of the world, but for the shooter a tight bore means more pressure and gas trapped on your side of the blast.
A can that’s too efficient in front of the bore can yield more port snap for the shooter. I found that some of the mini cans and 30 cal cans on 5.56 let more blast go forward and were less punishing for the shooter’s ear.
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Not a lot of experience, but so far the best sounding one i have shot and heard from off to the side was a YHM R9 and was fairly light also.
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Thanks! I have a Banish 30 that I plan on trying out when I get time. Awaiting the thread adapter.
I’m mainly interested in being quiet to my ears. SUpersonic crack is still loud, just want to protect my ears when in a hunting situation, as I don’t generally have timeto put ear protection on.
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I have minimal interest in suppressors these days, but the R9 is a neat can. Can run 9mm, 5.56, and 308. If I could adapt it to my Rem 700 308, I’d grab one in a heartbeat.
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Kinda the same state.
I’d be weirdly tempted to get one, or wait for a slightly longer Ti one so I can actually try running it with some 6mm Creedmoor bolt gun, but primarily my dumb recce clones.
If I was actually smarter, I’d be trying to wear out my 14th can to really justify this instead.
What decibel meters miss is a compete lack of PSD - which is what you actual want. Anything that snags an accumulated FFT would tell a totally different story, and ideally some time-based analysis of that can give you an actual impression instead of us trying to use a mixture of onomatopoeia to describe fleeting noises over the internet - being able to actually see a quick PSD from the side, back, and front would actually be idea (and yes, the amplitudes there also give you dBkPa as measured).
Practically, I’m not that worried about the can underperforming, or the lack of heat absorption being that much of an issue, on a rifle suppressor what we’re really after is just dumping the energy from that impulse sweep over a slightly longer period of time without putting tons of it into a resonant ping, and you can do that without soaking up every bit of heat. These still get hot, they just do so slower, and you can actually get some real benefit if the Bernoulli flow pull-through, that air mass can actually be doing some cool stuff. I think this is part of what I got to see at a few places doing additive Ti can innards a couple years back.
I’m sure there’s some added liability of the whole thing going tango uniform with one baffle strike or keyhole, but nothing here seems to violate the laws of physics… my bigger concern is that we’re going to get rocked by supply and demand more than anything else.
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I’ve only got one 5.56 cans a FM1 and normally run my 30 cal can on 5.56 rifles. I’d likely have concern to use one of my 30 cal cans on a 30 cal now, since I’ve used it so much on 5.56. My FM1 can I bored it at 6mm slight over bored vs baffle strike concern.
FYI I did like what I had seen on the R9 awhile back. Dang I need to start them form 1’s, but more in on working on my scuba diving gear.
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