Suppressed Mosin Nagant: Dead Air Wolverine, recoil and 500-yard steel

Key points: Suppressed Mosin Nagant Dead

• The suppressor makes the rifle more pleasant, not worse: warned that added back pressure would drive the recoil harder into the shoulder, the on-camera verdict after the first suppressed shot is the opposite — easier, and strikingly quiet for a Mosin.
• Sound is assessed by ear only. There is no decibel meter on hand and the call is explicitly 'ear feel', so treat the quietness claims as impressions rather than measurements.
• A suppressor that backs off costs hits. An odd report and a miss at 150 yards trace to a can loosened in transit; retorquing it puts the next round on steel, which is the practical lesson buried in the joke about tightening the can.
• Recoil is the limiting factor, not ammunition. Visible bruising starts early and the pain outlasts the novelty, with the session ending on shoulder condition rather than on running out of rounds.
• Loading without stripper clips means feeding the magazine one round at a time through the top of the receiver — slow enough that it becomes the video's running complaint about the design.
• Most early misses were a sight problem: the ladder had been left in its zero notch. Moving it to 100 corrects the low impacts, after which 150- and 300-yard steel come readily on irons.
• The sight markings do not match the ammunition. With the bullet weight unknown, the elevation marks no longer correspond to true distance — the 500-yard plate is only hit with the ladder set for 700.

About this Gun Review video

Suppressed Mosin Nagant: a Dead Air Wolverine goes on a WW2 bolt gun that has already bruised a shoulder bare, and the can turns out to make the rifle easier to shoot rather than harsher, contrary to the back-pressure warnings. The second half is an unplanned marksmanship run on iron sights: 150 and 300 yards fall once the ladder sight comes off its zero notch, a loose suppressor costs a shot until it is retorqued, and the 500-yard plate only rings after the elevation is wound all the way to 700. Loudness is judged by ear — no meter, no chronograph.

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