I bought myself a PBS1 silencer from RSOV.com a while back.

Picture from RSOV.com.

The silencer recently arrived, mainly due to it taking time to reach me from my mate who had ordered it as part of a team order.

My initial impression of this silencer was good. It has an impressive weight and I ordered the lighter aluminium version over the heavier steel one. It has an nice weight.

However, when I attempted to attach it to my AK47, I came across my first problem. The small section of the silencer you see above the TM in the picture above is what attaches the PBS to the AK. It screws into PBS at the base of the silencer. The problem is with the attachment to the AK. The AK itself has a small nipple (for want of a better term) that extends out of the front sight that stops the flash hider unscrewing. The attachment on the silencer was to small to allow this nipple to lock into place. I filed this down for quite a lot. This allowed the attachment to to fit.

The second problem was related to the first. My attachement wasn’t quite locked into place and whilst trying to screw it off, the attachment section actually screwed off INTO the silencer, thanks to the attachement screwing onto the AK one direction and into the silencer in the other. However I managed to remove it by unscrewing the thinner front part of the silencer from the fatter rear section.

Eventually I got onto attaching it and test firing. This is were the big disappoint happened. BB’s would not exit the silencer and those that did, exited in pieces, shattering inside. Having gotten into the silencer before, I had another look inside. The sponge rings inside I believe are casuing the issue. It’s low quality foam inside and probably wont silence BB’s much but I’m mainly using this as cosmetic aspect for the AK. That leads me onto my next article where I investigate it further and find out how to allow the BB’s to exit unaffected. I have already found out that the problem is not related to the fatter rear end as I have attached that to the AK and use it without any trouble. So my next article will be how I managed to fix the silencer.