Suppressed/Silenced Autococker Barrel

[dcl-inc]

I have a question for the experts here. Is this a factory item or did someone do a custom job? 16" aluminum barrel with a suppressor that's made with aluminum caps, pvc center and brillo pad like muffler material. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[DocsMachine]

I'd bet money it's handmade/shopmade. That clamp ring at the back is painted, not anodized like you'd expect from a 'production' part. Not proof, of course, but a strong hint anyway.

If it was, in fact, made as a 'retail' product, it was almost certainly by a small garage-shop maker. Very few actual companies made 'silencers'- only ones I can think of was TASO (which started out cheap hardware-store ABS but eventually became proper injection-molded ones) or BOA, who made some of their brass barrels with a baffle sleeve.

I remember seeing a picture in one of the magazines a million years ago, showing a well-made anodized aluminum one, but I have no idea if that was a production piece or some skilled maker's personal one-off piece.

Doc.

[Ecapnation]

Totally homebrew

[Hp_lovecraft]

I had lots of TASO ones, and definitely not a TASO.
But I like the design, with the integrated barrel. The issue I had with the TASO was they were made for 7/8, 15/16 and 1" barrels..... but it was never a great fit. and more then a few times, it would fall off during a game. Sometimes I'd try to shim them on with thin metal (ie soda can), but it was never a perfect solution.

Obviously, the integrated barrel is problematic since.... its designed for a specific gun. That makes me think its a later design. In the early 90s, everyone used different threads, unlike the late 90s on, most guns made use cocker threads.