Suppressor sound tests / .308
.308 suppressor sound tests
4 tests used this cartridge. Each test is one rifle, one day, one set of ammunition. Results from different tests can’t be compared with each other.
Smaller tests
One more suppressor was measured with this cartridge. It was the only one fired on its gun, so there is nothing to compare it with. It is listed here instead.
- B&T Monoblock
This one doesn’t have a page on Baffled yet.
.308, 20" bolt-action rifle2026
50 suppressors were fired on this same gun, with the same ammunition. It was not fired without a suppressor in 2026. At the 2024 Summit, the same gun with the same ammunition and no suppressor measured 155.9 dB, and each reduction below is counted from that 2024 figure.
The bar above the list places each of the 50 suppressors fired on this gun by how loud the shot still measured at the shooter's ear. Between the quietest and the loudest there is 21 dB. It stays on screen as you read, so hovering a row shows where that suppressor falls.
The shaded band is the tightest 1.87 dB stretch of this strip, holding 16 of the 50 suppressors tested, which this test cannot tell apart from one another. It is a sample rather than a special group, so sweep the strip and the band follows. No 1.87 dB stretch of this strip holds more of them than that, so the field really is spread out: on this gun, which suppressor you fit changes how loud the shot is.
- Echo Zulu Defense Cryo128.4 dB10.3 oz · 7.5"27.5 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
- Warsaw Creek Armory Rudis128.9 dB16.5 oz · 8.375"26.9 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
- Griffin Armament Dual-Lok 7AM129.9 dB19.4 oz · 7.5"26.0 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
- FCA Ryze L-Ti129.9 dB13.7 oz · 8.75"26.0 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
We don’t have any information on this suppressor beyond Thunder Beast’s test. It may be an older or renamed model.
- FCA Ryze SL-Ti130.2 dB14.4 oz · 9.25"25.7 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
We don’t have any information on this suppressor beyond Thunder Beast’s test. It may be an older or renamed model.
- Warsaw Creek Armory Rudis-S130.8 dB14.8 oz · 7.5"25.1 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
- FCA Ryze S-Ti130.9 dB11.3 oz · 7.25"25.0 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
We don’t have any information on this suppressor beyond Thunder Beast’s test. It may be an older or renamed model.
- Carbon Research CR308131.1 dB14.2 oz · 10.7"24.8 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
- FCA Ryze K-Ti133.2 dB9.4 oz · 6.25"22.7 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
We don’t have any information on this suppressor beyond Thunder Beast’s test. It may be an older or renamed model.
- W.T.F. Silencers The Tatanka135.6 dB19 oz · 8.25"20.3 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
We don’t have any information on this suppressor beyond Thunder Beast’s test. It may be an older or renamed model.
- Strategic Sciences MFMD 7.62 2.4136.6 dB24.2 oz · 7"19.3 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
- Griffin Armament PRC 300138.4 dB18.3 oz · 8.25"17.5 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
- FCA Ryze S-Ti with Recoil X143.6 dB15.1 oz · 9.2"12.3 dB quieter than the 2024 unsuppressed baseline
We don’t have any information on this suppressor beyond Thunder Beast’s test. It may be an older or renamed model.
Products come and go from these events voluntarily. A suppressor missing from this list was not tested, nothing more. Names are shown as Thunder Beast listed them. A name without a link doesn’t have a page on Baffled yet. Differences smaller than 1.87 dB are closer than this test can reliably measure. The results also don’t record which mount or muzzle device each suppressor was fitted with, and that hardware can affect both the reading and the weight and length shown above. Decibels are not a count of anything: as a rule of thumb every 10 dB is roughly a halving of how loud something seems, so the gaps here are larger than they look.
Every row opens to show all three microphones, and it is worth opening. A suppressor can be the quietest here beside the muzzle and middling at the shooter’s ear, so a claim about one says nothing about the other.
Thunder Beast published the decibel figures, the weights and the lengths. The resolution limit of 1.87 dB, the shaded band, and the 155.9 dB unsuppressed figure are worked out here from those measurements.
The 155.9 dB unsuppressed figure is from the 2024 SILENCER SUMMIT, published by Thunder Beast Arms Corp. See their 2024 results
Data from the 2026 SILENCER SUMMIT, published by Thunder Beast Arms Corp. See their results