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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Thank you.
Paul Elliot
2024-09-02 20:32:56 +0000 UTCYes. I show it in my full video on the Welrod.
Forgotten Weapons
2024-09-02 20:29:19 +0000 UTCI couldn't see in the video, but do you access the wipes by unscrewing the cap on the front of the barrel?
Paul Elliot
2024-09-02 20:27:21 +0000 UTCWow, amazingly quiet! Thanks for sharing, Ian!
Christian D. Orr
2024-08-24 06:31:08 +0000 UTCProbably 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.
Forgotten Weapons
2024-08-18 07:47:43 +0000 UTCHow accurate are these pistols?
Jesse Roberson
2024-08-17 22:17:39 +0000 UTCSounds like my older Feinwerkbau piston-driven air pistol.
Patrick Moran
2024-08-17 20:04:07 +0000 UTCAm I right to assume the collector who owns this stashed away the original rubber wipes and has a supply of modern substitutes?
Grosporina
2024-08-17 19:58:00 +0000 UTCWell, it' basically a rod ...
Claus
2024-08-17 13:58:40 +0000 UTClikely 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.
Guido Schriewer
2024-08-17 12:52:22 +0000 UTCWhat would be the max distance for acceptable accuracy?
Oliver Gilkes
2024-08-17 12:41:54 +0000 UTCI suspect that there’s no crack because the rounds are subsonic.
Rick Notkin
2024-08-17 12:21:19 +0000 UTC
