Best moderator/silencer

I use Hogan Decimetre very good have a few quiet, accurate but needs maintenance.

But the very best is the standard HW silencer quiet and accurate.
 
Very little experience, but the Weihrauch XLK on my Ratihlator 1000 has proven quite effective.

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My favourite, before giving up my FAC was an Aimsport Triton .338 rated on a 223. Always had comments on how quiet it was.
More relevant, the XLK seems to do well on any air rifle and has a loyal following.
 
I use a large custom design at 18 cm long and 40 mm in diameter, it works fine but an even better one would indeed have been welcomed..

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There's a lot of blast to suppress at 50-55 fpe..
 
My go to has always been the Hugget Belita. I don't need 'mouse fart/whisper quiet', although for me, they are...

I also like the fact that they're nicely style, do not hinder accuracy in any way (some mods can/do) are very lightweight, so have little to no effect on the barrel.
 
I have several different rifles (springers and PCPs) with the standard HW. They work fine with no issues. I have an AA Q tech on my S510 ultimate sporter with no plans to change.
 
I use a Huma Mod50 on the L2 - works a treat. As with @OldPlinkster - a .25 MOD with .22 pellets.
The old FX Bobcat doesn't use a mod. The shroud is so effective.
The L1 uses a CCD insert.
R5M uses a BAT mod.
Huben K1, like the Bobcat, doesn't use a MOD. The shroud is sufficently quiet.

I have just done a direct test, on the BRK Ranger XR, between an old Weihrauch mod, a 3D printed affair and the RTI Hush 34mm.
The old Weihrauch wins by some margin. Barely an audible thwump.
 
It's all pretty subjective as silencers will behave differently on various guns. And not just sound muting performance, but also POI & occasionally the airgunners nemesis.....pellet clipping (or is it ?....sometimes its not a physical clip, its a weird air flow / fluid dynamics thing going on).

I started making silencers almost 35 years ago, as a mechanical engineer / tool maker with a couple of Uni modules of sound / audio engineering & a life long obsession with airguns. I pretty much knew I could improve on what was available.

I chose Delrin for two main reasons....it deadens sound nicely & it takes a scratch well without looking tatty. It's also tough & easy to machine.

The internals are based on sound engineering design principles & seem to work well for most guns.

I don't claim to be the quietest, but my MWSS200 (35mm x 200mm) will give a good account for itself against the industry stalwarts. And lets face it at 12 fpe ranges the noise of a pellet hitting a target (paper or fleshy) is louder than the muzzle report.

Mine aren't for everyone, but where I differ is that I will make to order, square ended, tapered, calibre specific, different diameters & lengths, threaded, slip on....if my machinery will allow it, I'll make it.

But most of all I enjoy creating something that helps fellow airgunners, a community that I am privileged to be a part of for nearly 50 years now.

If I can be of help to anyone, just send me a DM.....the worst I can say is no :D
 
I have a weihrauch XLK on my FX dreamline, and a standard one on my HW100K. They are excellent

On my S200 I have a blade BFM and that is slightly quiter that the weihrauch.
 
As others have no doubt said, the original HW moderator/silencer/suppressor is very good gut in the looks department it is just a black tube but with very good internals. For looks verses how quiet you could do a lot worse than a Huggett Snipe, they are pretty quiet but ahve a nicely designed exterior. The 0db offerings look nice too but are a little louder. I have 4 Peace Pipe offerings, all slightly different dimensions, one of which I bought for my HW97 but thought it made the rifle overly long so I drilled out the end the screwed to the muzzle and threaded it internally to 1/2"unf and use it on my SMK PP700w .177 and it is whisper quiet yet the same mod on my FX Wildcat Mk3 it is a little noisier, thats probably due to my Wildcat bein .22 and sub 12ftlb.

How quiet a mod appears is a very subjective thing, two shooters with matching kits using the same mods will say one set up is quieter than the other.
My wife has a Huggett Snipe on her .177 sub12 AA S200 and all I can hear from her gun beside me is a click and very subdued Pfft from the muzzle, the same Snipe on my FX Impact Mk2 .177 is still quiet but the HW is quieter. FX Impact mods are spookily quiet when you consider that it is just a short and empty tube.
 
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Huma-air moderators seem not to be so popular. But I like Mod50/4, it is not smallest, but very quiet one. Or more like 4 different suppressors, because it is modular, each added part brings some more dbs down.
Gun is .22 but the mod is .25, that combo works great and not slightest chance of clipping.
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The trouble is price with a lot of moderators here in the UK. If you cant buy from a shop in person they have to be shipped to a RFD for collection and that's extra handling fee. When most of the good moderators are £100+ (nearly 1 years pellets) it gets costly. Not everyone has that kind of cash that they can justify on a silencer for an air gun. Yes I do shoot but it's always been on a tight budget with used guns and 2nd hand kit. It's only now at 51 I've got my first quality rifle new. So to answer your question, they are just too expensive (I checked the website)
Not having a dig at you just the rip off system 😁
Nice setup by the way
 
andypandy345 said:
The trouble is price with a lot of moderators here in the UK. If you cant buy from a shop in person they have to be shipped to a RFD for collection and that's extra handling fee. When most of the good moderators are £100+ (nearly 1 years pellets) it gets costly. Not everyone has that kind of cash that they can justify on a silencer for an air gun. Yes I do shoot but it's always been on a tight budget with used guns and 2nd hand kit. It's only now at 51 I've got my first quality rifle new. So to answer your question, they are just too expensive (I checked the website)
Not having a dig at you just the rip off system 😁
Nice setup by the way
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Buy one of Matt’s and he will send it to your door.
 
andypandy345 said:
If you cant buy from a shop in person they have to be shipped to a RFD for collection and that's extra handling fee.
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Not in my experience - I've had three sent to my house with no problems. E.g. Bagnall and Kirkwood (where one of them came from) state:

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andypandy345 said:
When most of the good moderators are £100+
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Depends what you mean by 'good'. My two most effective ones were both £57 delivered. The standard Weihrauch moderator (which is a benchmark) is around £70.
 
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