I am ordering an AK like this with integrated sights, (so not front sight block on the barrel).  Assuming I cut it down to remove the russian threading it comes with and threaded it in 5/8x24, would this work with an AK?  


BTW my VEPR is going to be 7.62x39 NOT 308

You can suppress the AK, but they will not be as quiet as you may want

Doesnt need to go pew pew like movies, any decibel reduction is an improvement in my book.  What kind of db can you expect on a suppressed AK (7.62x39)

Probably similar to a piston AR.

Figure mid to high 130s depending on which can you use.

Sounds about right.  


I forgot to mention: My intended can is a SWR Specwar 762.

There was a guy who suppressed a SBR AK on here not too long ago.

He said it wasn't any quieter suppressed than unsuppressed if I recall(Just saying what I recall, Im not sure if his can played a part in this as well). Ive never seen a suppressed AK so I cannot comment.

I heard M1As were loud suppressed. I heard one suppressed not too long ago. It was louder than my 10.5 suppressed but nothing outrageous

Yea, that was probably me.  My situation was a bit unique though.  A 7.62 can on a 5.56 host.



I've yet to shoot my 7.62 AK with it suppressed, but I expect about what people have said here, good not great.  
 

Did you have to do anything special to thread the barrel for that SBR?

Well, it is a krink and already threaded for 24mm.  

My AK is 14mm left hand



Is yours not threaded at all?  
 

Its on order but I dont know what the threading is for it yet.  My guess is 14mm just based on what Ive read about VEPRs but I wont know for sure til I take possession of it

Random question:  Is the AR a quieter platform than the AK?

My Krink in the avatar has an AAC can, you hear the round report downrange staggered from the operating round sound along with what I compare to firing a .22LR, it is a 5/45 round

Kind of muzzle heavy.  And it's still loud enough you don't want to shoot it without ear plugs.

Yes

My store has a HTA Kestrel 762AK on a post sample AK-47 (16" bbl).  I was of the opinion that either the can sucked and/or all suppressed AK-47s sucked.  This combo is LOUD.  Dont misunderstand me the suppressor makes a difference.  However, compared to a 5.56 chambered, 12.5" bbl'ed, M16 w/ M4-96D the AK-47 w/ Kestrel is LOUD.  It is indisputably unpleasant without ear pro.

At least in full auto.  Which was the only way the combo usually gets used.  A week ago some did a few shots in semi and it sound good.  Then the select was pushed up to auto and it was LOUD again.  The AK-47 and 7.62x39 cartridge and full auto clearly overwhelm the capabilities of the HTA 762AK suppressor.  It spits fire in full auto like a bare muzzle SBR.

Either way, it is a lot of fun.  And while I am normally not a proponent of HTA cans, this is one role in which their Kestrel excells.  If suppression is going to suck any way, might was well have a cheap can on the end that you don't worry too much about.  I would not want to see a good can like a titanium YHM or SAS can on an AK-47.  



+1, without a doubt.

I guess I'm lucky my. My Draco threads were straight.
My YHM Phantom works great on it. Doesn't sound like a gunshot.  Not too loud to shoot with no ear pro not really, shooting wolf ammo.

 

30 cal maybe but the 106 is  22 quiet.  When the next can comes in i will see about an adapter for my SBR Draco



little cough cough over gassed after 20+ rds