Originally Posted by
Kudu22
If you do plan to run suppressed most of the time a brake will take the brunt of the beating off the blast baffle. However if you want to run a flash hider even on a 10" rig you are not going to hurt the SOCOM556-RC. You will see the gasses creating a very shallow channel where the gasses run between the tines. They are flowing on the path of least resistance and it stops. The blast baffle on the SOCOM line is much thicker than the preceding series of SF suppressors. We have 10's of thousands of rounds on Mk18's with test samples we use to record accuracy, sound and performance over the life of the samples and the wear on the blast baffle is a non-issue.