I finally received my first can, and am doing a quick review. This is my first can, and I don't have a whole lot of experience with them so sorry I will not be doing much in the way of comparisons. The only other can I've shot a fair amount was a friend's M4-2000 mounted on my AAC muzzled device from about a year ago.

First and foremost, it easily satisfies it's primary purpose: To make the rifle look cooler.


The suppressor itself is quieter than expected. From hearing many people talk about how loud surefire suppressors are, you would expect it to sound like a .50 BMG going off. I compared it to a .22LR shooting supersonics and subsonic ammo. From 10 feet away, it was easily quieter than the .22LR shooting supersonic ammo (federal automatch). It was slightly louder than subsonic .22LR rounds (tenex). Most of the sound seemed to come from the crack of the bullet as opposed to the muzzle. I last shot the AAC suppressor a year ago, so I can't compare the difference in sound levels. I do remember the M4-2000 sounding different though (maybe a little better than the surefire).

The backpressure is surprisingly light. I remember with the AAC, I got a bit oil on my face and eye protection however there was none with the surefire. The spent brass I've seen come off most suppressed rifles were absolutely filthy and almost black. Brass coming from the surefire was surprisingly clean:


Brass in the middle is unsuppressed, top and bottom are with the surefire suppressor.

POI shift is about .5 MOA, maybe a little less with a SPR contour 18" barrel. With a KAC lightweight 16" barrel, I was just under an MOA shift. Perfectly repeatable on both rifle.

All in all, I've very happy with it.

This really gave me a chuckle.

Congrats on your first can. It's definitely a great first can.

 
To make the rifle look cooler.


That statement is a bit couch commando and mall ninja for me but, I don't care if my rifle looks cool or not if I can shoot it well and it works.  Noise suppression for me has nothing to do with looking cool.  A fake can looks basically the same, costs a fraction (less than the stamp) of a real suppressor and, doesn't have any paperwork to mess with so you get immediate gratification.




I'm glad you are enjoying your suppressor.  Like potato chips, it's hard to stop with just one!  


 

I forgot to mention, I wasn't impressed with the recoil reduction/comp ability of the Suppressor. It was on par with the warcomp, which I don't find to be particularly effect compared to other hybrid muzzle devices.

That is probably the single biggest factor as to why i havent gone with surefire thus far, their muzzle devices are weaksauce. If they could just make a damn battlecomp/M4SD/mams style break i would buy 8 of them and never looks back, hell even make one like a BCM mod 1 would be great.