striped1 wrote:Erud wrote:The reasoning is fairly simple. Suppressors do quite a bit to mitigate recoil along with suppressing noise. Someone shooting with a suppressor will have an advantage (however slight) over someone shooting the exact same setup without one. Since they are not legal in all 50 states, the policy keeps the playing field level in that regard. Making them legal for f-class competition would cause all kinds of problems with regard to national records, etc. Even if they were allowed, you would not find many people clamping an extra piece of metal on the end of their barrel when accuracy is the ultimate goal.
I am not interested in records, etc. I just want to pull the trigger on my 338 lapua on long range targets without having to reconfigure it to do so.
I need something along the lines of a military division that allows brakes and suppressors.
As for suppressors and accuracy, I haven't seen a problem with quality equipment. It tends to tighten up groups and add some extra FPS which never hurts. It sure works in the PRS.
PRS is a whole different game, and may be more of what you are looking for. I wouldn't expect the NRA rules on brakes and suppressors to change anytime soon, so if that keeps you away, it will likely continue to keep you away. As someone who has owned and shot some pretty nice .338's, I know I would not want to shoot 88 rounds through one in a day at a match, nor would I want to be squadded next to someone else doing it.
As for suppressors and accuracy, anytime you add something to a barrel, you change the harmonics. It might help, or it might hurt. Suppressors are not really moveable, so they will only do one or the other. I don't know if you have ever played with barrel tuners or anything like that, but just adding one to a rifle very rarely has a positive effect. It's the "tuning" part that can make them shoot better.
