#SuppressorCover

Happy Holidays TFB fam! Hope you are surviving this circus known as 2020 well. As the year draws to an end I am expecting my latest tax stamp to arrive. Earlier this year I was offered a screaming deal for a        SIG Sauer SRD556-QD. I bought it on the spot and had my Form 4 sent off in a week. Now that I have hit the average in the wait time, it is ALL I think about. Perfect timing, I am like a kid on Christmas eve. All I want this year are accessories for my family of suppressors. So, here you go friends and family some affordable gifts for the silencer loving patriot in your life

Manta Defense has launched the new generation of their suppressor covers – the Manta V2. This new product looks a little bit different than the previous Manta Defense suppressor covers and also has been redesigned to make it slimmer and lighter compared to the first generation.

Just several days ago, Magpul announced their new suppressor cover. It was designed around the SureFire Socom suppressor. It helps keep to prevent the shooter from burning themselves in case you accidentally touch the suppressor. I was told the worst torture test is not full auto fire but slow semi auto fire with a shot every second. This allows the heat to soak more into the material of the suppressor. After 100 rounds the can gets to about 1300 F and you can still touch the suppressor cover.

If you own a suppressor I’m sure you’ve noticed two things. One, it scratches easily and two, they can (pun intended) get really warm even with a bolt-action rifle. The heat can obviously burn you if you touch the suppressor, but as the heat accumulates and rises in front of your sight you will get a very irritating mirage that distorts your view of the target. (Wind can of course help with the mirage, but not so much with your ballistics if you’re shooting long range.)

One of these days I am going to ask a company like Cole-Tac to make me a suppressor cover for one of my rimfire silencers – for the mere fact that it just might look tacticool in pictures. If we are talking about rapid fire or precision rifle cans, however, a heat shield or a mirage cover is a practical necessity. Polymer giant Magpul as obviously noticed the market for quality heat resistant wraps and has recently applied for a patent for a suppressor heat shield and assembly.

While at NRA Annual Meetings we ran into a couple of fans that had some of the nicest products in their respective areas of the industry. Blue Alpha Gear makes some of the nicest web gun belts in the industry for much less than the “cool guy approved” companies sell theirs for. They happened to be sharing a space with Cole-Tac who also sews stuff for a living. Cole-Tac makes suppressor covers, rear bags, and even multitasker tool pouches.