77/44 suppressed

[Irelander]

Anyone here had their 77/44 built up with an integral suppressor? I've been thinking of going down this road with either SRT, Johns Guns, or Tom Denall. All of these manufactures make some sweet looking quiet guns. Let me know if any of you have had this work done or even just fit your 77/44 or 77/357 with a screw on can suppressor.

Here is the Johns Guns integrally suppressed 77/44

Here is SRT's

SRT also does the 96/44

 

[leon670]

Beauty is truly in the yes of the beholder. I like to hear the gun go bang.

 

[mattsbox99]

That would be a lot of fun!

 

[9x19]

Interesting... but as hard as my friend pushes, I just can't get excited about sound suppressors.

Good luck with your quest.

 

[cruzerlou]

As I understand it .Ruger got the request from some of the larger Police departments for an integral suppressed for them to dispatch Pit Bulls and other dangerous dogs while doing raids on meth labs .As you know many times these guys cooking this garbage would use dogs as an early warning system and a suppressed 77/44 was just the ticket to take the dogs out silently .As a matter of fact I've had the chance to shoot one of these rifles .A friend of mine is on the S.W.A.T. team in a large neiboring county.One day while at their range they just happened to have the gun there .Quite the weapon lots of power and not much noise .One round in the brain pan of a large dog and problem solved .The round makes more noise hitting the target ,a pumpkin in this case than the round going off .At 75-100 yards in an urban environment ,with traffic sounds and such, you'ed never hear the gun fire .Unless I'm mistaken the gun I fired was one of SRT's guns but it's been a long time ago
Lou

 

[9x19]

I'm not too sure what kind of thinking they're using, but I've never found domestic dog breeds to be that tough to put down, so to me, a .44 seems to be a bit much. I've put down a number of animals with a single round of .22LR, and know a bunch of ranchers who regularly carry .22 pistols for coyotes.

In a police role, a suppressed 9mm or .223 would work just as well, and there are lots of those choices already on the market.

I've been itching to try out a new .300 Blackout, even though I suspect it ain't too much different than JD Jones' .300 Whisper which came before it.

 

[cruzerlou]

You got me .They wanted the 77/44 for that job so that's what they got .I have seen a 115 gr 9 Mm bounce right off the skull of a pit bull first hand at about 4' distance out of a Sig 226 .I couldn't believe it but it did .Had to shoot it in the chest 4 times to bring it down .The bad part is ,at the time the dog had the Office's week hand in it's mouth and was breaking bones as it shook it's head back and forth .May not have been a clean shot ,but none the less you can't argue the stooping power of the .44 mag over the 9 MM no matter the bullet weight .
Lou

 

[9x19]

I didn't mean to sound argumentative, I've seen some weird requests before, just trying to wrap my brain around their reasoning... should probably know better.

I do imagine bringing a rifle to bear with the dog hanging from your off hand would be muy difficult. :mrgreen:

 

[Jimbo357mag]

As I understand it .Ruger got the request from some of the larger Police departments for an integral suppressed for them to dispatch Pit Bulls and other dangerous dogs while doing raids on meth labs .As you know many times these guys cooking this garbage would use dogs as an early warning system and a suppressed 77/44 was just the ticket to take the dogs out silently .As a matter of fact I've had the chance to shoot one of these rifles .A friend of mine is on the S.W.A.T. team in a large neiboring county.One day while at their range they just happened to have the gun there .Quite the weapon lots of power and not much noise .

Really interesting. What kind of ammo? I thought to be really quite you had to get velocity sub-sonic.

 

[cruzerlou]

I don't know what load they were using in the gun ,but it must have been a sub sonic load because it was super quite .They also have H&K MP5 SD's in their innovatory and with Winchester 147 gr Hydro shok's the bolt makes more noise that the report of the gun .My thinking is they wanted a 100 yard super accurate gun that carries a bit more punch than the 9 MM has ,and that think was accurate at 100 yards average 1 1/2 -2 " 3 shot groups at 100 yards .No doubt the gun had been worked for accuracy and they had developed a hand load to do this job .With the scope they had on it and all the other factors this gun performed the job .
This gun was one of the S.W.A.T. teams snipers guns. He's a master gunsmith too and he built both his .223 and .308 sniper rifles and rolls his own ammo too .I could ,shooting off my Steady Rest rifle rest,really taking my time shoot dime sized 3 shot groups at 100 yards groups with both these guns. He could from a hasty position off the bipod shoot one raged hole with ether one as fast as he could work the bolt . This guy is scary good I wouldn't want this gunning for me .don't run, you'll only die tired LOL.

Lou