I’ve recently got to spend some time both at the range and in the field with SilencerCo’s new Harvestor Evo and I think it’s a super solid choice for the money at only $680 MSRP. Street price should be less than that which is outstanding.
I have some buddies with an $8,000 sound meter and of the five big-name suppressors tested out of a .308 Winchester, the Evo was the quietest and the 2nd lightest! The one that was lighter was twice as expensive and not as quiet.
My all-time favorite suppressor is the SilencerCo Omega 300 and the Evo is both lighter, quieter, and less expensive than the Omega. The Omega is full-auto-rated and is an excellent and tough suppressor.
I’ve hunted with and been around SilencerCo’s old Harvestor and, in its time, it was a solid choice to hunt with. I’ve still got buddies I hunt with that are rocking it.
The new Harvestor Evo shares little in common with the old one other than the name. The Harvestor Evo appears to me to have nine 3D-printed baffles (not including the endcap or blast chamber) that are welded together. It’s pretty incredible what can be done with 3D printing. There is no outer tube reducing weight and cost. SilencerCo’s website says it’s made from Cobalt 6 (an alloy that is superior at handling high-temperature and is known for super hardness and resistance to cavitation erosion), Inconel (known for being better than steel and aluminum in high temp/high-pressure situations) and stainless steel.
Also, I don’t know for sure and am guessing, but based on a suppressor that I saw some mil dudes rolling with, the SilencerCo Harvestor Evo is a civilian version of a military contract suppressor. I didn’t even bother asking SilencerCo as they’re not allowed to either confirm or deny.
The Silencer Evo is 6.24 inches long which is fairly short. It has a diameter of 1.54 inches.
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Should you want to add Quick Detach (QD) abilities, the Harvester Evo is compatible with all SilencerCo Bravo mounting adapters, including the Bravo ASR Mount, Bravo Direct Thread Mounts, and all ASR Muzzle Brakes and Flash hiders.
The Evo is rated for 16-inch barrels in standard non-magnum calibers and 20-inch barrels for 300 Win Mag and other magnums. You shouldn’t exceed the burn rates and pressure of a 300 Win mag with a 20-inch barrel. In other words, that’s all it’s rated for, which is excellent. To be clear, you can use it on 223’s, 6.5’s, 308’s, 7 mags, etc.
SilencerCo claims that the Evo weighs 11.1 ounces but I find that number to be a little misleading. I love the folks over at SilencerCo, but they need to be a little more transparent about this number. SilencerCo gets that number by not including any means of attaching the suppressor to a gun in the total weight. So with no attachment (direct thread or QD) mine actually weighs less than the advertised 11.1 ounces at 10.6 ounces.
As soon as you add the ⅝-24 thread adapter (or 1/2-28), which is what you’ll need to attach to the threads on your rifle barrel, it weighs 12.8 ounces. Still an excellent number and I should point out that SilencerCo isn’t the only one doing this. It’s not the whole story though.
There are several companies that are making titanium lightweight adapters that will fit the threads on SilencerCo and other’s suppressors. You could likely lose an ounce by paying the $60 and using the titanium adapter rather than the SilencerCo steel adapter if you really cared to save the one ounce.
I shot groups out of several rifles with the Harvestor Evo and actually saw groups tighten up with factory ammo. There was minimal point of impact shift and the recoil was greatly reduced.
To sum this up, I have close friends who ask on a regular basis what suppressor they should buy that will hunt, work at the range, swap to an AR home defense carbine, and that won’t break the bank. There are cheaper suppressors, quieter suppressors, shorter suppressors, and lighter-weight suppressors than the Evo but none that perform all four criteria as balanced. Due to the size, weight, sound suppression abilities, and cost, you literally can’t beat the SilencerCo Harvestor Evo as a first suppressor.
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Very interested in retarding explosion ever time I fire some of my favorite guns.
16″ barrel for 308 and 20″ barrel for a 300 Mag, WTF? Why would I ever be foolish enough to reduce my barrel length and thereby the efficiency of the round I am shooting to hunt with reduced-length barrels? Is this like fishing with 2 lb test line? I don’t shoot any of these mentioned calibers in anything less than a 20-inch barrel, magnums I prefer in 28. I like the extra several hundred ft. per second speed and trajectory advantage.
These are minimum barrel lengths! You can use as long of a barrel that you want to carry around. Almost all suppressors have minimum barrel lengths for different cartridges based off of SAMMI case pressures and powder burn rate. For instance a 300blk might be 10″ but for a 308 in the same 7.62 suppressor would be 16″ because you want the maximum pressure after ignition to happen inside the barrel and not the suppressor! There is a YOUTUBE video where a guy does a full auto 100 round mag dump to test a 5.56 suppressor and uses a 7.5″ barrel not knowing at the time that the minimum barrel needed was 10″. The max pressure happens between 7-9 inches and right about the 80 round mark the suppressor blew apart.
I don’t quite understand the current Suppressors purpose, the sound it excludes is nothing more than a hand-clap. Not all that silent is it? Wow.. big money for zip.. Lots of Bang and no James Bond..
If you buy suppressors based on price only you’re cheating yourself. It’s not what something costs that makes it special it’s the end result that counts. Always buy SilencerCo and you’ll never regret it
There is no scientific or engineering justification for suppressors selling for the amount the manufacturers are asking. At most the material and machining costs could result in retail prices of $ 200. Maybe $400 for titanium. It is for the clearly rip off prices that the industry asks that limit their sales potential.
The lack of a true “free market” (due to NFA regulations) has also caused the prices to be artificially inflated. You can buy suppressors OTC in certain parts of the world, and the presence of true competition keeps the prices low. Also, NFA has basically destroyed any secondary/used resale market for these devices, which also keeps prices inflated