Originally Posted by
rob_s
Silencer durability means exactly nil to virtually all commercial buyers, especially those for whom this is a first-time purchase, and even moreso again for those for whom this is their only experience with silencers.
If you want durable, install brake-mounts instead of hider mounts on the guns that get shot suppressed the most.
if 90% of American gun owners don't ever take their guns out of the safe, 99% of silencer owners never take their silencers out of the safe after the first couple of outings. For the few that DO use them frequently, they tend to be hunters in states where suppressed hunting is legal, meaning you're talking about 5-20 rounds a year for a lifetime, all slow-fire (if you can call a single shot on an animal "slow").
People *think* they're going to use the shit out of these things, and they just don't. Go to any three-day carbine course and count the number of people using a can on TD1, and check again on TD3. it will be drastically reduced. Hell, most suppressors didn't make it through an entire drills night when I was running out local drills because the shooter took it off.
These are very, very use-specific pieces of equipment. Trying to associate too much logic and reason with an illogical and unreasonable purchase can lead to heartache.
For me, having owned a few cans, I want light, short, and multi-use.