Rob’s Top 3 Rifle Suppressors…Right Now

Overview:

The search for the perfect suppressor continues! In this video Rob details his favorite top 3 rifle suppressors (currently) based on sound suppression, versatility, back pressure and size. Suppressor technology is quickly changing and we will have new product reviews for SilencerCo, B&T, Innovative Arms, Rugged, Dead Air dropping very soon! We'll see if Rob's opinion changes as he does testing and evaluation of new suppressors.

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00:00 - Intro
01:18 - Dead Air Nomad L & LTi
02:37 - Huxwrx Ventum 762
04:24 - OCL Polonium K

Transcript:

Hey everybody, Rob Orgel wanted to launch this video and talk about my top three favorite rifle suppressors. Now let's talk about the spectrum of reality for Rob. Rob currently owns 52 suppressors. He's done a ton of testing on those suppressors in training environments and a lot of different R&D, T and E situations. And I've been able to evaluate and find pros and cons of multiple different silencers. Now the other side is I'm a firearms instructor for a living. I'm on this range five plus days a week teaching all different types of people with all different types of equipment. So there are several other silencers that I don't even own that I've been able to do a lot of testing on. Having said that, it doesn't mean that I know everything. It doesn't mean that I've had hands-on time with everything. What it does mean is because these videos are doing well because of your support, your like comments and shares, that's helping us grow this channel and companies are becoming interested in us. And as those companies get interested, they're sending silencers for testing, B and T, rugged, silencer code, dead air, IA, innovative arms, innovative arms. They're all sending suppressors our way for testing so that you the viewer can get more information as it becomes available to us. So these are my top three current rifle suppressors, but make sure you subscribe so you can see the newest, latest, greatest that we're testing that I didn't even think is available to the open market yet. Anyways, top three, let's break them down. The pros and cons of each. Let's start with the dead air Nomad L. So there's the L and there's the L for long. And then there's the titanium L. I like both a lot. The problem with the titanium, even though it's so light is it does have some barrel like restrictions that I don't dig. So I have both when I'm on a long enough platform, I run the titanium. When I'm on the shorter platforms, I run the standard. Why I like this suppressor so much is because it is so ridiculously quiet as the operator of the gun on an L you won't even know how quiet it is. It's just so darn quiet near sharing the action by your face louder than the gun. So your buddy two stalls to the right of you or three feet back from you. He's going to say, wow, I could really hear the difference. Does that matter to me as the shooter? Of course it does. I'm still going to wear hearing protection when I'm shooting, but when I'm shooting the signature around me, who knows that I'm shooting, who knows what's going on is reduced a lot. So I really love the L suppressor. It's a little bit longer. That's the trade off. The big downside to the L suppressor is all the titanium barrel like restrictions that I've already mentioned and two it's longer. It's heavier. So if you want maximum quiet, this has been the best candidate in my experience so far. If you want something that's a little bit more easy to handle, lighter, shorter, this is not your answer. So pros and cons of the Nomad titanium L and standard L. Next is the Ventum. So Hux works, high in year, the flow through concepts. Now I had a long time ago, they're old school, really long over the barrel system. And to be honest, I didn't really like it. Or it was quiet and it had reduced back pressure, but the back pressure was still very high and it was very cumbersome and it had to go over the barrel of your system. It limited what you could put it on. Then they released their flow models, the flow K the QD, and those are solid contenders. When they released the Ventum, at first I really wasn't interested. I got an email saying, check out our new Ventum. I went to my favorite gun shop. My buddy had one and it rattled in his hand. And he's like, this sounds kind of cheap. I said, yeah, it looks kind of cheap. So we discussed it for a little bit and decided that's not really an interesting suppressor. Circle back around, I realized that they had a hub system on the base. Well Huxworks likes their proprietary mounts and I don't like proprietary. That's not a friend of mine. I like something that I can plug and play on all the different stuff I already own. So because I found out that they had that Mount when they released their 556 Ventum, which came out this year, 2024, I don't think they're out yet. So I went back and got a 762 Ventum and I have to tell you, I have fallen in love with it. All of the guns I've had in my collection that are just not good candidates, not good hosts, this fixes that. If you say, well, okay, you can do that with the other Huxworks, you can. And flow through wise, they perform a little bit better. However, for versatility, I really love the Ventum. So the Ventum takes a very top seat in that priority because you know how much I hate back pressure. You've seen my other videos about back pressure, negative effects and felt recoil and gas in the face. This alleviates a lot of those problems. So this takes guns that previously I decided you're not going to see a suppressor over again. And now they're back on the table to be good suppressor hosts. Next we have the Otter Creek Labs Polonium K. This is the 556 version. Now why I like this suppressor so much is because it's so compact and to the ear, it seems just as quiet as most standard length suppressors. So in other words, I'm getting the standard ratio of suppression, but in a much more compact package. Now they have almost no barrel length restrictions, which I absolutely love. And in addition to that, maybe even what's better than that is it's rated for up to the 6mm. So it's not just a 556 suppressor. You can put in your 6GT, 6 Creedmoor, 6 Arc. I'm not a 6GT guy, I'm a 6 Creedmoor and a 6 Arc guy. So this brings the 30 caliber suppressor needs down into a 556 caliber size and it stays very short. Well, I think we've all dabbled with the too small silencer and we decided that's not really that quiet. The way I see this is if this is a range event and I'm going to be here with my buddies, we're all going to be wearing hearing protection, the difference between a suppressed rifle and an unsuppressed rifle is very noticeable. Which suppressor our buddies are shooting is a little less noticeable because we're all wearing hearing protection. So if it's going to be a, hey, let's all put suppressors on our weapons kind of day, but we want to do CQC or work through barricades or do more difficult type technical shooting, this suppressor allows me to do that with minimal length and weight added. Because the downside to the suppressor, well, like all suppressors, it has its downside. Back pressure. It is up there with about the top three, four or five worst back pressure suppressors. Just like it's full size, I did not find a deviation between the compact, the K and the full size suppressor. Both had a lot of back pressure. Still very quiet, very compact, 6mm rated, no barrel length restrictions, a lot of pros, but the biggest con about suppressors is going to be back pressure. So recap. The L for super quiet, little bit of back pressure involved. The Hux works for quiet enough, but can go on any gun and doesn't cause much additional back pressure. And then finally, if you're okay with back pressure, the quiet, small, compact, Polonium 556K suppressor is definitely one of my favorites. So now that you have heard my favorite three suppressors, I'd like to know in the comment section if you would consider purchasing these three now that you've learned about what Rob's top three are. Side note, all the suppressors you're seeing on this channel are my personal suppressors. I've put my own time, money and investment into these suppressors. My buddy behind the camera has put his own time, money and investment into filming this and editing this. We're doing this to share our experience and have fun. So please keep that in mind that we have non-biased opinion. Nobody's given us money, kickbacks. We didn't even have an ammo sponsor at this point. We're going to rely on you to help us promote this channel so that eventually we can get more ammo, do more testing, get more suppressors, and then make you a more knowledgeable consumer of these products. So please feel free, give us that like, comment, subscribe. It really helps us defeat that algorithm. And as always, stay safe. We'll see you on the next one.