Quiet pistol?

[eyebull]

You can get moderator adaptors for quite a few of the CO2 pistols, and they are effective. Obviously the width of a good silencer does often force you to use a red dot or scope rather than the irons.
I have moddy adaptors for my Umarex 1911 and S+W 586. The 1911 gets away with it because it has tall target sights, but I needed to mount a red dot to the 586.

[Alakar]

New Webley Nemesis with a HW silencer on .
Very quiet

[career707lover]

You can get moderator adaptors for quite a few of the CO2 pistols, and they are effective. Obviously the width of a good silencer does often force you to use a red dot or scope rather than the irons.
I have moddy adaptors for my Umarex 1911 and S+W 586. The 1911 gets away with it because it has tall target sights, but I needed to mount a red dot to the 586.

New Webley Nemesis with a HW silencer on .
Very quiet

Thanks guys definitely some food for thought there. I quite fancied a Makarov, had one before and really liked it and it seems there is low profile moderator available but it only seems to be from a russian site and I think you have to buy a new barrel that is threaded and possibly an adapter which pushes the price up quite a bit. I was considering a Crosman 1377 (obviously no moderator) but with lower pumps I was thinking it might be quieter?

[Geezer]

Thanks guys definitely some food for thought there. I quite fancied a Makarov, had one before and really liked it and it seems there is low profile moderator available but it only seems to be from a russian site and I think you have to buy a new barrel that is threaded and possibly an adapter which pushes the price up quite a bit. I was considering a Crosman 1377 (obviously no moderator) but with lower pumps I was thinking it might be quieter?

1377 is very quiet on one or two pumps. Crosman say use two as the minimum, but mine works fine at close ranges on one. Six to eight is definitely noisy though.

Most of the SSPs (eg Nemesis, FAS604, HW40, HW75, Gamo PR15/45/AF10/Compact) are quite quiet. As are mid-power springers like the older Diana LP5/5G.

[eyebull]

My Alecto is *super* quiet with a moderator, I actually thought the gun was broken the first time I used it. Same thing when I made a mod adaptor for my Beeman P17. I presume it is because pneumatics are very efficient with air and the knock open valve itself is quiet in operation..

A 1377 will not be that straightforward to get a moddy onto, unless you get a longer barrel, and then it will be a piece of cake - Crosman adaptors are everywhere.

The thinner profile moderators that you can get - and I suspect this is the same thing you are talking about for the Makarov - are not nearly as effective as a full size moderator, although they do take the sting out of it. Their big plus is still allowing you to use low profile iron sights. I picked one up from Versandhaus Schneieder and it now languishes in my airgun bits box.
If the weight of a full size HW moderator is too much on the end of a pistol, I would suggest the Pax carbon fibre moderator, which is very light and only a tiny bit less efficient than a HW mod. That's what I have on the Alecto.

[eyebull]

Oh, and the 'foresight posts' that you can supposedly screw onto the crosman moderator adaptors in place of the set screw, are a load of old shite imo. Don't bother.

[career707lover]

Thanks for the info guys. I had a Gamo compact and i was reasonably quiet, as was the AF10 probably because they have similar or possibly even the same internals. I think I just like the idea of silencer

[Markmelesky]

My Alecto is *super* quiet with a moderator, I actually thought the gun was broken the first time I used it. Same thing when I made a mod adaptor for my Beeman P17. I presume it is because pneumatics are very efficient with air and the knock open valve itself is quiet in operation..

A 1377 will not be that straightforward to get a moddy onto, unless you get a longer barrel, and then it will be a piece of cake - Crosman adaptors are everywhere.

The thinner profile moderators that you can get - and I suspect this is the same thing you are talking about for the Makarov - are not nearly as effective as a full size moderator, although they do take the sting out of it. Their big plus is still allowing you to use low profile iron sights. I picked one up from Versandhaus Schneieder and it now languishes in my airgun bits box.
If the weight of a full size HW moderator is too much on the end of a pistol, I would suggest the Pax carbon fibre moderator, which is very light and only a tiny bit less efficient than a HW mod. That's what I have on the Alecto.

Hi. I have some P3's I wouldn't mind moderating. Tell me about your adaptation for your P17.

[capt hindsight]

My Alecto combined with a swift stumpy moderator is the quietest gun I've shot, quieter than HW 100.