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The rifle is a Savage with an 18" Shilen barrel varmint contour, threaded 1/2x28, 1 in 8 twist. I have shot quite a number of 240's subsonic, before I got the can, which was just a couple of weeks ago. The manufacturer (a small shop) took my rifle, with the 240 gr. handloads, and tested the suppressor, everything was good. I took the rifle out for the weekend, and shot 20 more of those handloads through the suppressor, no problems, but had to take suppressor back in to have the endcap re-torqued. It was fine at that point. The next time I took it out, I shot 5 through it on the AR-15, all grouped well. I then shot 5 shots through the 300 whisper with the new load, 8.5 gr VV-N110 under a 175 SMK. All holes were perfectly round. I screw the suppressor on, and that's when I had the problem. Physics would dictate that the bullet would be deflected into opposite side of the baffles after contacting the first one, right?
One other thing:
The manufacturer says that it would be "impossible" for the baffles to be out of line after torquing down on the endcaps, but they are a simple washer/spacer type. If one of them was machined slightly off, and had a different amount of torque holding it in, it seems as though that could be the culprit.
Last edited by snipecatcher; 10-28-2010 at 05:45 PM.
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