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Welrod .32 at the Range: British SOE's Silent Assassin's Pistol (Ad-free)
🕑 Added 2024-08-17 12:00:02 +0000 UTCI had the chance to take a .32ACP Welrod MkII out to the range for a bit of shooting. These use a combination of baffles and rubber wipes, and the suppressor's effectiveness quickly drops from "fantastic" to merely "very good" after a few shots put a hole in the front wipe. This example already had 2 or 3 rounds through it when I started shooting, and the sound changed from a muffled thump to a more gunshot-like crack over the course of the 8 or so rounds I fired. In practice, this was really not a problem - the Welrod was an assassination tool and not something intended for use in any sort of real gunfight.
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Paul Elliot
Thank you.
Forgotten Weapons
Yes. I show it in my full video on the Welrod.
Paul Elliot
I couldn't see in the video, but do you access the wipes by unscrewing the cap on the front of the barrel?
Christian D. Orr
Wow, amazingly quiet! Thanks for sharing, Ian!
Forgotten Weapons
Probably not great by most standards, because of the wipes. But it really isn't intended to be particularly accurate, and doesn't need to be for its intended role.
Jesse Roberson
How accurate are these pistols?
Patrick Moran
Sounds like my older Feinwerkbau piston-driven air pistol.
Grosporina
Am I right to assume the collector who owns this stashed away the original rubber wipes and has a supply of modern substitutes?
Claus
Well, it' basically a rod ...
Guido Schriewer
likely what christopher lee was at least trained on if he didn't use the darn thing for.... target practise behind lines let's say. DAMN that thing is soooo quiet. at least outdoors.
Oliver Gilkes
What would be the max distance for acceptable accuracy?
Rick Notkin
I suspect that there’s no crack because the rounds are subsonic.
