The Jay Situation

Today’s Topics: 1. Whitetail deer hunting – suppressed, and with thermal? The future is now, old man! (00:08:22) 2. New Sound Signature Reviews this week? Multiple? Maybe. You can have a little data, as a treat. (01:05:21) 3. Just finished sending the latest batch of Welcome Emails to the new PEW Science members – thank you so much for your support! Your grassroots contributions to the effort have...

Today’s Topics: 1. Sound Signature Review 6.94 – the Otter Creek Labs Hydrogen-L with subsonic 300BLK . Technical discussion. (00:11:49) 2. Sound Signature Review 6.95 – the Otter Creek Labs Polonium-K on the 5.56 MK18 SBR . Technical discussion. (00:57:28) 3. Warm welcome to several new corporate PEW Science supporters . We now have Maxim Defense, JK Armament, Swamp Yankee Arms, QD Specialties, M...

Today’s Topics: 1. Sound Signature Review 6.94 – the Otter Creek Labs Hydrogen-L with subsonic 300BLK ! Introductory discussion. (00:07:22) 2. Sound Signature Review 6.95 – the Otter Creek Labs Polonium-K on the 5.56 MK18 SBR! Introductory discussion. (00:12:59) 3. Suppressing your pistol. Is it easy? Not always. Should it be? One can dream. Let’s get into the mechanics with this introductory disc...

Today’s Topics: 1. Sound Signature Review 6.92 – the Dead Air Sandman-S on the 5.56 MK18 SBR! Technical discussion. (00:07:24) 2. Member Research Supplement 6.93 – Dead Air Sandman-S end caps . The Dead Air 30 caliber end cap vs. 5.56 end cap – does it make a difference? (00:51:55) 3. Some folks have reached out regarding interest in characterization of foreign silencers. The Russo-Ukrainian war h...

Today’s Topics: 1. General suppressed small arm loudness. Expectations for new silencer users. “What is a good first silencer” – asked often. Answered…. seldomly. Proper use of the Rankings Table at pewscience.com (00:07:04) 2. New Sound Signature Review this week. Long awaited? Yes. Good to be able to put a pin in some things you folks have asked about. (00:45:23) 3. Whitetail deer hunting season...

Today’s Topics: 1. Sound Signature Review 6.90 and 6.91 – the Resilient Suppressors RS9 on the HK SP5 and SP5K-PDW 9mm submachineguns. A performance surprise, for most! (00:06:36) 2. PEW Science Predator Project Update #3 – merging thermal with night vision on your helmet? Chinese bridges? What in tarnation?! I’m gonna have me some fun… (00:55:47) 3. Flash testing? Not yet. Flash research? Why not...

Today’s Topics: 1. Listener Questions – they’re back! Let’s see how far we get in the group from the 4th solicitation. (00:07:11) 2. New Sound Signature Reviews this week. Multiple reviews; an important dataset. A novel discovery. (01:14:13) 3. We are in the tail-end of 2022 and the effort is strong. PEW Science members have stuck with it, and your support has fueled incredible research. As more h...

Today’s Topics: 1. Sound Signature Reviews 6.88 and 6.89 – the Diligent Defense Enticer Series. The Enticer L-Ti and Enticer S-Ti with subsonic 300 BLK. Technical Discussion. (00:04:47) 2. The PEW Science Predator Project Update #2 – thermal, night vision, both… all on your face? Possible. Practical? Can be. Limitations? Oh, you bet. (00:39:15) 3. Many kind words from many industry parties, and en...

Today’s Topics: 1. The Predator Project – LARPing as an alien from another world, here to hunt with technology eclipsing that of the inhabitants of Earth. Far-fetched? Surprisingly not. Night vision, thermal, and you. (00:09:08) 2. New Sound Signature Review this week? Why not two? Let’s go back and hit some stuff that needs characterizing. (00:50:59) 3. Just finished a wonderful field-testing pro...

Today’s Topics: 1. PEW Science SCAR Project Update #8 – Using the Mototech SCARburator with the Surefire SOCOM762-RC (not RC2) and the SOCOM-MIN2. (00:07:23) 2. Sound Signature Review 6.87 – Resilient Suppressors RSP on the HK P30L semiauto full-size 9mm pistol. Technical discussion. Boy, was this neat! (00:45:21) 3. Testing keeps happening and we keep moving further down the path of grassroots fu...

Today’s Topics: 1. PEW Science SCAR Project Update #7 – Using the Mototech SCARburator to tune the weapon for suppressed use. Things to consider. (00:09:32) 2. New Sound Signature Review this week? Oh yes. Am I excited? Boy howdy, am I. Big things. Disruptive things. Buckle up. (01:20:40) 3. Thermal sights and you: how to spend more money than you thought you would, and not be completely upset, ne...

Today’s Topics: 1. Member Research Supplement 6.85 – Unsuppressed Subguns; the HK SP5 and SP5K-PDW as Silencer Test Hosts (Public Article) (00:08:11) 2. Sound Signature Review 6.86 – GSL Phoenix on the MP5 ! Well, SP5. Regardless, how cool was that? And, third party engineering peer review! What a time to be alive. (00:53:15) 3. No time for a SCAR update today (we’ll do one on the Mototech SCARbur...

Today’s Topics: 1. Member Research Supplement 6.84 – Taming the MK18, Part 3 – HUXWRX vs. Otter Creek Labs vs. Surefire . Surprise! Real data and analysis to wrinkle your brain. (00:09:55) 2. New Sound Signature Review this week? Not only that – there is more this week than you may know. More research included too? What could it be? Certainly, silencer related…. right? (00:26:23) 3. Listener Quest...

Today’s Topics: 1. Sound Signature Review 6.83 – the HUXWRX FLOW 556k on the 5.56 MK18 AR15 SBR – technical discussion. Interesting performance! (00:07:34) 2. SCAR Project – micro-update #6. Hitting the 800-round mark; experience so far, suppressed, and gas dynamics. (01:25:39) 3. The suppressed small arms landscape is changing. What is next on the horizon? Many PEW Science members have shared the...

Today’s Topics: 1. Sound Signature Review 6.82 - the Energetic Armament ARX on the 5.56 MK18 AR15 SBR – technical discussion. Controversial? Shouldn’t be. (00:08:47) 2. Early deliverable, today! Sound Signature Review 6.83 – the HUXWRX FLOW 556k on the 5.56 MK18 AR15 SBR – cursory, introductory discussion. This one is wild! (01:03:14) 3. It warms my heart to see so many folks using the data and an...

Today’s Topics: 1. Rifle recoil? Does it matter? It can. PEW Science SCAR Project micro-update #5. (00:10:30) 2. New Sound Signature Review this week? 5.56 is back on deck. Is there more to learn? (00:28:07) 3. Listener Questions are back! Let’s hit a few from Solicitation #4! (00:32:08) 4. Thank you to all the PEW Science members for not only your support, but also for educating the public respon...

Today’s Topics: 1. Sound Signature Review 6.81 – the Otter Creek Labs Hydrogen-L on supersonic .308 bolt action; technical discussion. (00:04:19) 2. FN SCAR 17S CQC .308 Play Date – PEW Science SCAR Project Update #4. A short, but cursory update. (00:37:33) 3. Thank you all for your patience during this busy time – your PEW Science member questions and client requests are answered in the order rec...

Today’s Topics: 1. The PEW Science SCAR Project – Update #3. Optics, color-coordination, and initial unsuppressed testing of signature and kinematics. (00:08:52) 2. New Sound Signature Review this week? Boy howdy. There is. Buckle up! (01:14:54) 3. Several large internal client test programs have just completed here at PEW Science. There are a variety of review deliverables that will be coming for...

Today’s Topics: 1. Sound Signature Review 6.79 - the Liberty Precision Machine Anthem-S on .308 bolt action rifle! Technical Discussion. (00:08:24) 2. Sound Signature Review 6.80 – the Liberty Precision Machine Anthem-K , also on .308 bolt action. Technical discussion for the shorter version of the Anthem series. (00:40:55) 3. The PEW Science SCAR Project is underway. Boy howdy…. Already learning...

Today’s Topics: 1. Two test reports for you folks today – early deliverables! Sound Signature Review 6.79 - the Liberty Precision Machine Anthem-S and Sound Signature Review 6.80 – the Anthem-K , both on supersonic .308! Interesting data - Introductory discussion. This is a big deal. (00:08:28) 2. It’s SCAR time, ladies and gentlemen. Oh yes. 308. God’s caliber. Let’s talk about the SCAR, and the...

Today’s Topics: 1. Special note for a listener – and his dad. Blake, what doesn’t kill you makes your stronger. (00:10:03) 2. Sound Signature Review 6.78 – KAC QDSS-NT4 on the 5.56 MK18 . Technical discussion! (00:19:28) 3. Received some pretty big contributions recently. I am very honored, and the PEW Science effort is being fostered by generous folks and all the members and clients . I humbly sa...

Today’s Topics: 1. A lot of recent field testing – multiple test programs, multiple surprises, incredible time to be in the silencer game! (00:09:16) 2. New Sound Signature Review this week? Oh yes. Long time coming? Probably. (00:28:33) 3. Listener Questions are back – let’s dive in again and address your queries. (00:34:42) 4. The community is enthusiastic, educated, and becoming stronger. Every...

Today’s Topics: 1. Sound Signature Review 6.76 – Rugged Razor556 on the 5.56 MK18 AR15 SBR – technical discussion. (00:09:30) 2. Member Research Supplement 6.77 – Razor556 vs. Razor762 with different end caps on the MK18. (01:31:40) 3. Briefly – the AAC Ti-RANT 9M-HD? What in tarnation… (01:34:07) Ammo from True Shot: Click Here! (use code pewscience for $20 off the A-Zone program)

Today’s Topics: 1. NRAAM – short recap. Anything stand out in the silencer world? Dead Air Sierra-5 and new Surefire ? (00:08:10) 2. New Sound Signature Review this week? Oh yes. Member Research coming too! (00:28:37) 3. Listener Questions – let’s hit another round. This is always fun, I think. (00:35:26) 4. Really eye-opening meetings this past weekend. The support for PEW Science is non-trivial,...

Today’s Topics: 1. Sound Signature Review 6.75 – Otter Creek Labs Polonium on the MK18 with 5.56! Technical discussion. (00:05:32) 2. Are we experiencing a 5.56 silencer renaissance? Possibly. Survey says….. (01:21:12) 3. There are significant parties in the firearm community who support PEW Science . T.REX ARMS, and other corporate members of the effort, help tremendously. The biggest supporters...