Friends, is there a way to increase your rifle's accuracy in just a minute or two,

often with no gunsmithing involved or required?

The answer is yes, probably.

Welcome to the Backcountry Hunting Podcast. I'm Joseph von Benedict, your host,

and today we're going to talk about a little trick that has served me incredibly well over

the past eight or ten years when it comes to increasing the accuracy of my hunting rifles.

And no, this isn't a trigger job. It's not an action betting job. It's not free

floating the barrel. It's a very, very simple thing that will benefit generally rifles accuracy

as well as your hearing and the hearing of those around you. That's right, folks. It is the use of a suppressor

on the barrel of your rifle. Is this really a thing? Can a suppressor actually increase accuracy?

The answer is almost always, and we're going to talk about how and why, and then we'll talk about which suppressors tend to be the best at this and how you can apply this benefit to your hunting rifle.

Of course, there are side elements.

There's the ATF paperwork that has to be done. There's the waiting period before you get your suppressor, if you don't already have one. Although, to be fair, that has drastically diminished in the past several months.

There's the fact that unless you have a relatively modern rifle, you may indeed have to enlist a gunsmith and have

your muzzle threaded to accept that suppressor. So in some cases, there are some caveats to this

easy fix that I'm prophyliding about right now, my friends, right? But with most modern rifles

that come with a threaded muzzle, it's a very, very simple thing to put us a pressure on.

And yes, almost always, it improves accuracy.

We'll start with why here in just a minute.

First, I want to apologize.

This is likely to be a somewhat brief episode.

We've had a lot going on in our family lately.

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