Suppressing a PX4 9mm

[Kilroy]

So, Beretta has factory extended barrels available, and EFK Fire Dragon makes them as well. I haven't found any pictures or reports of anyone actually suppressing a PX4 though. Help me brainstorm a way to make this work with the rotating barrel, how would the suppressor stay in place without ghetto-fabbing something up?

 

[leroygibbs]

Silencerco did a video of their Osprey on a PX4 in .45, and posted in on YouTube. It's a crap host.

 

[leroygibbs]

and the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIMTVLUBo6s

 

[EL1227]

So, Beretta has factory extended barrels available, and EFK Fire Dragon makes them as well. I haven't found any pictures or reports of anyone actually suppressing a PX4 though. Help me brainstorm a way to make this work with the rotating barrel, how would the suppressor stay in place without ghetto-fabbing something up?

I just checked the Beretta Forum where someone asked. What they got were suggestions for a 92F (non-rotating barrel).

I thought about this myself, but figured that I would need a few things to make it work, the first being an extended barrel that could be threaded. You 'could' possibly use a full-size Px4 barrel on a Px4 compact (not sub-compact, it's a fixed barrel), but I don't know if the camming slide is the same between the full and compact.

Second is the barrel rotation and whether that would hang up ejection because of the extra mass of the suppressor on the barrel itself.

And finally, you probably couldn't shoot it wet because the rotation would tend to wash the bullet on exit ... I think.

 

[Kilroy]

Well, the threaded barrel isn't a problem. Beretta sells them. It's weird though, why would Beretta put threaded .45s out there and offer extended 9mm barrels if they loosen silencers after 4 shots? There has to be some workaround to this...

 

[lilgibby]

maybe its just me but i think the osprey is one ugly supressor...

 

[Flipz]

maybe its just me but i think the osprey is one ugly supressor...

You can probably tell that I disagree. But, to each his own.