The nomad family is lighter and quieter and works with non-soviet guns. I found the constraints acceptable to get that level of performance:
must be concentric- ie a quality AK with a modern era barrel- WBP, Arsenal, Saiga, etc
must be threaded in either a western pattern (most keymo mounts) or in 14x1 LH (jmac)
benefits of wolverine:
tolerates low build quality AKs
allows you to larp around with can that looks like a ПБС-1
will work on almost any eastern european host due to the adapter fitting many different bizzarro thread patterns
Further thoughts:
the PBS-1 was barely used by the soviets since I understand it arrived towards the end of the 7.62x39 period... and in the modern era they use all the 9x39 guns instead
the actual PBS-1 was garbage, with rubber wipes, poor performance, etc
almost all the stuff you can put on AKs is post-cold-war stuff like belomo/zenit, so you're fitting an "authentic" looking suppressor to a gun that is solidly post-soviet to anyone that knows anything about AKs
7.62x39 in short barrel is the optimal small AK setup (5.45 is absolute trash from small barrels) but there is no authentic soviet equivalent to this- the krink is from the period AFTER they rejected 7.62x39 in favor of 5.45.
So given the choice of being "authentic" vs having something useful, I got a nomad and I only use high quality kalshinikovs with it. In addition to my other hosts who wouldn't work with a wolverine.
Nomad 30 is definitely lighter- 4 ounces less with keymo, 10 ounces less with jmac X37 mount. And quieter. Nomad-L is much quieter but only tied on weight with Keymo, with x37 mount, it's 6 ounces less.
Depending on which thread adapter you need to use, Wolverine is between 20-24 ounces. It's really fucking heavy.
I couldn't feel a huge difference between the weight/size of direct thread and keymo. I think that it's a lot of noise over very little difference. Keymo also doesn't add much length. The keymo sleeves over the muzzle device which sleeves over the barrel. You're mostly just adding a bunch of weight, maybe 6-8 ounces depending on muzzle device.
Yeah almost all my stuff is direct thread but I had heard that Keymo is heavy. It's an industry standard for a reason-- it works, but sometimes the weight isn't worth the QD.
Keymo is bombproof and IMO very safe and convenient.
I never noticed the weight that much but I would notice if my can came loose during firing or got stuck when I wanted to take the can back off.
You do have to rocksett the shit out of everything but even when I didn't do this, all my failures (ie, stuff coming loose) were during disassembly rather than during shooting.
I've run direct thread before (primarily on 22 hosts/cans) and it's annoying during extended shooting sessions when stuff starts coming loose.
The nomad family is lighter and quieter and works with non-soviet guns. I found the constraints acceptable to get that level of performance:
benefits of wolverine:
Further thoughts:
So given the choice of being "authentic" vs having something useful, I got a nomad and I only use high quality kalshinikovs with it. In addition to my other hosts who wouldn't work with a wolverine.
Yeah the PBS-1 was shit but dude-- they look so cool! My buddy just built a 9x39 SBR it's awesome.
Edit:: the Nomad is still lighter with KeyMo than the Wolverine?
Nomad 30 is definitely lighter- 4 ounces less with keymo, 10 ounces less with jmac X37 mount. And quieter. Nomad-L is much quieter but only tied on weight with Keymo, with x37 mount, it's 6 ounces less.
Depending on which thread adapter you need to use, Wolverine is between 20-24 ounces. It's really fucking heavy.
I couldn't feel a huge difference between the weight/size of direct thread and keymo. I think that it's a lot of noise over very little difference. Keymo also doesn't add much length. The keymo sleeves over the muzzle device which sleeves over the barrel. You're mostly just adding a bunch of weight, maybe 6-8 ounces depending on muzzle device.
Yeah almost all my stuff is direct thread but I had heard that Keymo is heavy. It's an industry standard for a reason-- it works, but sometimes the weight isn't worth the QD.
Keymo is bombproof and IMO very safe and convenient.
I never noticed the weight that much but I would notice if my can came loose during firing or got stuck when I wanted to take the can back off.
You do have to rocksett the shit out of everything but even when I didn't do this, all my failures (ie, stuff coming loose) were during disassembly rather than during shooting.
I've run direct thread before (primarily on 22 hosts/cans) and it's annoying during extended shooting sessions when stuff starts coming loose.