period silencer advise please

[daveuk]

Could anyone please tell me what would be considered a period silencer for an AIR ARMS JACKAL? better still, where i could find two of them? thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer.

[daveuk]

can anyone help?

[DJ..]

My Jackal has a conical 'flash suppressor' and my Camargue has a blued steel barrel weight which was fitted to the wooden stocked AA sidelevers as standard when the open sights where not fitted- dont think they were fitted with a silencer as standard but the Webley Pro-fit, Hushpower etc. were often retro-fitted.

[I. J.]

How about the Air Logic Whisperer?

ATB
Ian

[Hsing-ee]

Silencers were not used very much in the late 1970s when the Jackal came onto the market.

You could get one made by a company called Galway but I don't think they made one for the Jackal. People just didn't use them in those days.

In any case, the Jackal had a very noisy action as I remember, and this noise was ampified by the plastic stock. A silencer would have made no difference to this, and reducing the small amount of muzzle blast from this springer would barely be noticed. As a teenager it was more impressive to have a gun which made a good muzzle report, much as we fitted illegally noisy Micron exhaust systems to our two-stroke motorbikes. They probably didn't go faster but they SOUNDED like they did, and the noisy Jackal sounded impressively powerful.

[daveuk]

Thanks alot for the replies fellas. i think i remember the hushpowers actually. i think i had one on a sharp innova that used an adapter that an engineer friend of the family made. i shall keep my eyes out for any of these.
thanks again.

[Lumberjack]

For a barrel end (not a silencer) try Elmor Fudd (Jason).

He rattles them up out of black plastic so they look like they came with the gun.

[I. J.]

Or next time your up at Rivvi have words with Jim Edge (heres there most every meeting). He will make one up to your individual rifle and to your spec. in a variety of finishes.

HTH
Ian

[daveuk]

Thanks Ian, i'll be up at Rivi in September when i'm home next. i've just bought one of Jim's silencers from Perry (targetzero) for one of my other rifles. i couldnt believe how quiet Jim's Rapid was with one of his silencers on it.
see you in Sept and thanks for the advice.
ATB
DAVE