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Offering benefits in hearing protection, increased accuracy, and adding a great advantage to your hunting experience, more than 27,000 legal sound suppressors are sold every year in the United States. With lever action Marlin rifles among the most popular rifles in the country, it is only logical that these two concepts should meet for a little quiet introspection.

Rifles, just like pistols can be suppressed under some circumstances. The best firearms for suppressing are those that have a contained action, so that the gasses of the round being fired do not escape at the moment of firing. In other words, a lever
action rifle is quieter than a semi-auto one as it traps more of those gasses inside the chamber of the gun. Another problem with suppressing a rifle is that many modern high-powered rifle cartridges of today are just too fast to effectively suppress.

You see rounds like the .223 Remington, .30-06, and .308 Winchester travel at well over the speed of sound, creating sonic boom milliseconds after leaving the muzzle. However the old, fat, round-nosed rounds used by a lever action rifle due to its tubular magazine, are usually subsonic. This means a modern M4 carbine shooting military grade 5.56mm is very hard to suppress, while a 100-year old Marlin in .35 Remington can be made to participate in quiet time for a few hundred dollars extra…

Wild West Guns tuned Marlin 1894 with Thompson Machine Isis-2 9mm suppressor.

Read the rest in my column at Marlin Forum