SMK MultiFit Sound Suppressor Review

Overall Rating

well its a silencer, they got that part right, so its a good point i suppose.

looks cheap, is cheap, and not enough supression to be worth spending 30 quid (rather go out and get plastered).

I think my summary says it all, but i have a little more to add.

opened the box, fitted the silencer to rifle, fired a shot, put silencer back in box, sent it back for refund.

Then i had a bright idea !!

I made my own silencer to fit to my SuperTen Pre-Charged rifle, and guess what? it cost me about a fiver and a couple hours work and its better than any silencer i've physically bought from a gunshop, looks a hell of alot better too!!

i drilled 32 small holes about 4" of the way down my barrel (this is to let the pressure and noise escape) then i made a sleeve about 6" long with holes drilled in it that leaves about a 1/4" of an inch between itself and the barrel (now the air has something to escape into) then another tube outside of that sleeve with a cavity of about 1/2" which i then packed with wire wool, i machined a tapered part to attach the tubes to and fit to my barrel with a grub screw, and ground down a washer for the other end, the exit hole was about 6mm which is nice and snug for a .177 pellet, for a .22 pellet i would reccomend about 9mm.
its a bit of a fiddle but once u get ur measurements right it all lines up and the pellet travels freely through the silencer.

thats a basic silencer, the one which i have recently made has 3 stages and is 8" long, and about 2" in diameter, finally powdercoated satin black and baked on, it looks the dogs danglies, and all you can hear is a slight click when the rifle is fired, which is really impressive for a 28ft/lb SuperTen.

check this... its even quieter than the bull barrel model, and this little bit of money and labour ammounts to about 5 quid and a couple hours.

now.. do you really wanna spend 30 notes on a cheap and in-effective silencer? or have some fun and satisfaction making one like i did?

so basically i say dont buy this silencer, if you really want to *pay* for a silencer then i suggest paying for a Logun (if it fits your rifle) but making your own is far cheaper and more effective in my experience.

Members' Comments ono0ricky0o's Review

• fixall7 on 4th Mar 2007

  Hi
  If you know anything about machining, then you must know that once you drill a hole usually on the other end that the drill comes out it leave's a bure (metal sharpness sticking out) which you have to debure. In your case you drilled 32 holes on a barrel to which it damages the Rifling Twist and are slowing down the Pellet 32 times because you can't debure a .177 caliber barrel,
  It will cost you a lot more to replace the Barrel itself then what it costed to buy the Silencer.
  So I'm sorry to say but this was not a wise move on your part, yes you probably suppressed the sound to your satisfaction but lowered the Performance on the rifle..............

• Biffo1262 on 16th Jul 2007

  I tend to agree with 'fixall7'. The rifling certainly has to have been affected and if deburring was attempted with the wire brush supplied with most rifle cleaning kits (bad idea and this item is best thrown away) the rifling has been damaged even more. However I am prepared to keep an open mind. When an item like this is posted it should be backed up with Chrony figures for before and after and the same with accuracy tests. Plus I would have liked to have seen a pellet 'before' and 'after'. The resale value of the gun has most certainly been affected. I just cannot see any self-respecting dealer touching it with a 6ft barge pole.
  
  As for the SMK silencer I have one and I agree it isn't top end quality as regards it's weight (heaveeee....) but it IS steel and not carbon fibre. All I can say is that fitted to my gun all I hear is the noise off the action - muzzle noise is non-existent. The finish is fine and accuracy is not affected BUT over a period of time the silencer gets filled with crud and the final rubber baffle does get damaged and once that happens it can cause a pellet to tumble. The life of an SMK silencer is not infinite and once it starts to become unpredictable bin it and buy a new one. After all they can be picked up for less than £20!