Benelli sells a mercury recoil reducer for the Stoeger. IMO, it is a waste of money as the bag of shot does the same thing; it adds weight. The Limbsaver will make the M2000 a popular gun. If Stoeger would install them at their factory, they would be one of the most popular guns available in the econo market.
Dear Technoid, I am considering a Mercury Supressor, but recently a friend of mine put one in the magazine tube of his benelli m1-super 90,and he felt that it really didn’t do much. It did do something,but he feels that it was just the added weight of the mercury that helped.
Whats the deal with these things? Rich Dear Rich, I have a couple of mercury suppressors and agree with your friend. They don’t seem to do any more than an equal amount of lead would do. Free recoil varies more or less equally with gun weight. If you add 10% to the weight of the gun, you will reduce free recoil by about 10%.
It isn’t exact, but it’s close. The mercury reducers use an interior orifice so that the mercury flows through during recoil.
In theory this stretches out the recoil pulse a little in addition to simply adding weight. That’s the theory. Personally, I find the sloshing about irritating. On the other hand, lots of people use them. Their attitude might be that they know that the weight reduces recoil and they sort of hope that the delayed movement of the mercury will do something to attenuate the pulse. In theory it should.
In practice I could never tell the difference. Perhaps someone more sensitive than I am could.
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