Ways to silence an airsoft sniper???

Tommy Griffen

Wel Lads, I have 3 airsoft (bolt action) snipers and i want to make them all as silent as i possible can. I am willing to open them up if nessesary. ANY IDEAS????

Thanks
Tommy

Villafan6

a silencer ?

dbmauser

i stuffed the stock under the barrel with cotton cloth,made a big difference,not perfect yet though,was told if you stuff the barrel too that it makes a difference

Tommy Griffen

dbmauser wrote: »

i stuffed the stock under the barrel with cotton cloth,made a big difference,not perfect yet though,was told if you stuff the barrel too that it makes a difference

Sound, thanks db mauser.

Any other ideas people????

dbmauser

no problem

found this on you tube.not so sure on drilling bits of my rifle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwzcNePiS0s

ring majik in hobbyairsoft in crookstown kildare,hes really helpfull for things like this

Leftyflip

Egg-shell foam, it's brilliant, stuff it everywhere in the stock, the butt of the rifle, where ever you can get it in without it interfering with the mechanism.

Tommy Griffen

Leftyflip wrote: »

Egg-shell foam, it's brilliant, stuff it everywhere in the stock, the butt of the rifle, where ever you can get it in without it interfering with the mechanism.

Thanks lads, they are some good ideas. Keep them coming

Firekitten

First, lets not be messing around with foam and cloth, well, yet. There's several steps first.

Most of the impact in an airsoft sniper rifle's sound comes from inside, not the barrel. The cylinder needs to be dealt with first. Dampening cylinder heads are a great idea, basically a foamy sticker thing on the back of the nozzle/head that softens the impact of the piston head, plus dampeners for those too... no THAWCK' because its cushioned.

How do you cheat this for cheap? Quite easily actually. you can get sticky backed thin rubber about 1-2m from car shops, atleast, Its where I found it. It comes in sheet form, and I cut an insert to fit on the back of the cylinder head, and piston head, (obviously leaving a hole for the air stuff that makes the gun magic happen)

Secondly... make sure you dont cut the spring to downgrade, if it is, replace it with a one designed for 328, a shortened spring twangs around inside the rifle like a badly tuned banjo. they are a certain length for a reason boys

THird... silencer. Yes, they can work. Not stock though. Get an airsoft silencer, bin the foam, after keeping one bit...

Go to a petshop, and without buying that hamster you always wanted, go straight to the fish department. Buy yourself some course, and some fine fish filter foam. use that saved piece of silencer foam to make templates, and cut out enough slices of foam to fill the silencer.

fill the silencer so its Fine foam, Coarse foam, Fine, Coarse, Fine, Coarse... getting this whole alternating thing right? yep. This allows sound waves to be absorbed into the foam, causing it to reverberate so much it lengthens and is inaudiable. In non audiophile terms, 'no noisy, very quiet'

After this, its advisable to get some spacers in the barrel, they can also deaden noise from reverb inside the body, however it being a contained barrel system, its unlikely tro need the body filling too, theres not that much space to be honest.

If you do all these things, chances are you should have a very quiet rifle. (I've been asked if mine was gas, because its that quiet....)

Hope this helps guys.

Tommy Griffen

Firekitten wrote: »

First, lets not be messing around with foam and cloth, well, yet. There's several steps first.

Most of the impact in an airsoft sniper rifle's sound comes from inside, not the barrel. The cylinder needs to be dealt with first. Dampening cylinder heads are a great idea, basically a foamy sticker thing on the back of the nozzle/head that softens the impact of the piston head, plus dampeners for those too... no THAWCK' because its cushioned.

How do you cheat this for cheap? Quite easily actually. you can get sticky backed thin rubber about 1-2m from car shops, atleast, Its where I found it. It comes in sheet form, and I cut an insert to fit on the back of the cylinder head, and piston head, (obviously leaving a hole for the air stuff that makes the gun magic happen)

Secondly... make sure you dont cut the spring to downgrade, if it is, replace it with a one designed for 328, a shortened spring twangs around inside the rifle like a badly tuned banjo. they are a certain length for a reason boys

THird... silencer. Yes, they can work. Not stock though. Get an airsoft silencer, bin the foam, after keeping one bit...

Go to a petshop, and without buying that hamster you always wanted, go straight to the fish department. Buy yourself some course, and some fine fish filter foam. use that saved piece of silencer foam to make templates, and cut out enough slices of foam to fill the silencer.

fill the silencer so its Fine foam, Coarse foam, Fine, Coarse, Fine, Coarse... getting this whole alternating thing right? yep. This allows sound waves to be absorbed into the foam, causing it to reverberate so much it lengthens and is inaudiable. In non audiophile terms, 'no noisy, very quiet'

After this, its advisable to get some spacers in the barrel, they can also deaden noise from reverb inside the body, however it being a contained barrel system, its unlikely tro need the body filling too, theres not that much space to be honest.

If you do all these things, chances are you should have a very quiet rifle. (I've been asked if mine was gas, because its that quiet....)

Hope this helps guys.

Thanks, thats alot of great tips.