Resilient Jolene & Jolene S - Lightweight HUB Compatible Silencers Test & Review

Welcome back everyone. Today we're going over these two silencers that you see here in my hand. This is the Jolene. This is the Jolene S from the folks over at Resilient Suppressors. Essentially they are the same silencer with just a different length, so I figured we'd roll them into one video. They have a few more baffles here on the Jolene. A few fewer, if that makes sense, on the Jolene S. And they are 30 cal silencers. They are ultra lightweight, which we'll talk about here in a second. Both of them are also hub mount compatible, so that way you can use any of your traditional quick detach type devices if you want to. Although rather you can just use the 30 cal threads that they come with, they also offer the ability to get a half by 28 insert there if you want to use them on your traditional AR-15s. This one here, 12 ounces just under on my scale with the mount, and the Jolene S right at 8 ounces with the mount on my scale. So ultra lightweight silencers, and of course to do that they have to use specific materials. These are both made out of titanium, however it's a different grade titanium than most silencers are using that are ultra lightweight, and it allows these silencers to do something that most other titanium silencers on the market can't do. So for example, if you look at most of your titanium silencers that are out there, they're going to have a restriction in your manual that will say do not get them above 500 degrees, and the reason for that is once certain materials get to a certain temperature, the risk of the pressures exploding out the side as a round goes through goes up exponentially at certain temperatures for certain materials. Now these ones use again a different type of titanium than most of your silencers out there that are going to use, so these are rated up to 750 degrees, so that is a good bit more in terms of a consistent string of shots should you have to do so that these are rated to hold up for. And one thing that's also interesting about them versus a lot of other silencers on the market is that the welds are actually right there on the outside, so what that means is it doesn't have a sleeve over it with baffles in the middle like a lot of traditional silencers would do, so that gives you a couple things. It gives you greater internal volume, and then of course it also reduces the weight because you don't need the weight of the exterior sleeve. Another cool thing these silencers do is all the markings are right here at the rear, so what's good about that is if for whatever reason you get a baffle strike out here at the end, they can just cut it and re-weld back on and you don't have to go through the NFA process again. As I'm filming this video, the NFA process is very, very quick, and these are selling out quite quickly when they come in stock just because they're super lightweight and they have pretty good sound reduction as you guys are about to see. Looking around online right before I filmed this, I really only saw one other review and that was from Jay over at Pew Science. I definitely recommend you guys check it out. He puts out great data, but of course we have a mil-spec meter of our own, so we're going to head out to the range and test these in a couple different configurations, but before we do that, a couple house cleaning notes. 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First up, we're going to run it on a bolt action 308, and then we're going to run it on a 10.5, or 10.3 rather, excuse me, 300 blackout, and I should note that on the 300 blackout, for whatever reason, I had a nasty reflection coming off the sun. However, I was able on my computer to blow it up full screen and adjust the actual gain so that way I could read them. It might be a little bit hard for you guys to read what the actual numbers are, but I will roll the numbers in here on your screen so you guys can see that as we go along. So with all that yapping out of the way, let's head out to the range and see what kind of decibel reduction numbers these cans can produce on a couple different host guns. All right, so the test rifle we're using is going to be the Stag here. This one has a 308 18-inch barrel, spiral fluted, beautiful gun. You guys have probably seen it on the channel already. In the gun right now, we have some Remington. This is a 150 grain 308 from our friends at Firearms Depot, big thank you to them. They are the ammo sponsor for everything not 9mm on the channel, so all the ammo you guys have seen today has come from them, so definitely check them out. They have some good deals as well. And yeah, let's get the baseline here unsuppressed, and then we'll add the cans. Make sure everything is good, looks like we are. Safe to say that's pretty loud, and I don't think I mentioned it in this video. I've been recording a bunch of them here today, but yeah, so we're 1.6 meters off the ground, and the actual decibel meter is one meter off to the left, so the traditional mil spec standard, if you will. So let's get the can on there and see how it does. We'll go with the long one first. Everything's the same, just added the can, no other differences, same ammo, same everything. I can tell you a huge difference in felt recoil as well. Well, you guys should see the actual numbers right now, but I will tell you, having tested a ton of .30 caliber cans, that's pretty freaking good. And let's swap out to the short one. As before, everything is the same, just with the short silencer on there, and we will see how it stacks up. Make sure we are still recording, and we are. There you have it. All right, everybody, next up, we are going to test it with some subsonic 300 blackout. We have my Daniel Defense V7P with a 10.3 inch barrel mounted up, 1.6 meters off the ground to the mil spec standard. Our mil spec meter is over here to the left, one meter, and we're going to see kind of how it does. Let's get our baseline here with no silencer on there. Make sure this is recording. I've done that before. All right, now we're going to throw the can on. We'll be right back. All right, everything's the same except we have the can on there now. That's pretty impressive, folks, for the size and weight of that silencer. I will take that. Now that y'all have seen the actual decibel reduction numbers, at least on those different guns and those configurations, a couple things I want to talk about. I wanted to run both of them on a bolt gun because I think there definitely is two different schools of thought for like a hunting silencer. A lot of people want maximum suppression, and if that's the case, honestly, you're not giving up really anything with this can versus other cans on the market. If you guys saw those numbers, they were down, you know, 132, 133, something like that. On a bolt action 308, that is very quiet. Just for the new folks here, what OSHA says is safe in terms of one actual sound impact on your ear is going to be 140 decibels. So honestly, you can probably fire a couple shots if you need to with no ear pro and not have to worry about risking your hearing if you had this can on that particular rifle setup that we were testing out there. So definitely very quiet in that regards. And I would also say that there are other hunters who just want maximum lightweight as they're backpacking through, you know, whatever mountain country or whatever they're in. And in that case, this one certainly would still work and is certainly exponentially quieter than it would be without a silencer. Again, for the new folks who aren't really used to decibel reduction numbers, one thing to note is that decibels are logarithmic. So, you know, a three to five dB shift in terms of up or down is literally doubling or halving the amount of impact and noise that you are hearing and perceiving as a human. So it is huge. So going from like 130 to 140 is not just, you know, whatever, 7% more, it is exponentially more in terms of impact and what you perceive at your ear. So just know that for the new folks, again, out there. Some other things to talk about there, again, on that 300 blackout, we did have first round pop. I know you guys probably couldn't see it all that well, but the first shot was like 135 decibels. And then after that, every single shot following that was under 130 in terms of decibels with those subsonic 300 blackout rounds. So that is extremely good performance, especially with a can of this size. Again, this can is just under seven inches. This one's just over nine inches. The actual outer diameter is 1.61 inches. So a lot of you guys want to snug this up under a rail. This will work on a lot of different hand guard options out there, if that is what you want to do. And again, like we talked about, it is hub compatible. So really any mounting system that you guys want to use, you can. Lastly is going to be price point on these. And before I get to that, I should note full disclosure, these were sent out for review by the folks over at resilient. So price point right now, as of when I'm filming this video, this one here is $799. Obviously it has a little bit of extra material on there. And this one here is $699, which is insane guys for a lightweight titanium can like these ones are, those are some of the cheapest on the market. And when you consider they're also giving you some of the best sound reduction performance on the market, kind of hard to argue against them. In my opinion, let's talk about some potential cons to them. One con of course, is that they are traditional silencers. What I mean by that is of course, it is a baffled system and it now their baffles are unique to the folks over at resilient. If you guys have watched the channel and a lot of my silencer videos in the past, they have produced some of the quietest cans that I've tested. There was one that was about average. All of the other ones that we tested have been well below average in terms of the actual sound reduction. I should say above average in the sound reduction that you get for them. So it is a traditional back pressure can. So if you are running it on a semi-automatic gun, you are going to get, you know, your traditional increase in bolt velocity, for example, on an AR-15 and increase in carbon in the action. So you just have to keep that in mind versus like a flow-through option. Additionally, it's a pro-anacond and it's this knurling right here. So this knurling is there for a couple reasons. Number one, it provides greater surface. So it's going to have better cooling than it otherwise would have. Additionally, it allows you to get a better grip on it. If you need to torque it, either torque it on your gun or try to break it loose if it has carbon lock. Now, if you guys watch the channel, you'll know one thing I harp on here is going to be wrench flats. So this one kind of is like half on that. So they give you wrench flats on the hub adapter, which is nice. So I definitely prefer that. That is good. I would love to see wrench flats here on the actual body of the silencer as well, because you definitely can get carbon lock between your mount and the threads on the outside of the silencer body itself. That said, I don't think it's a huge deal. I honestly think most people looking at these silencers because they're so lightweight, are going to be using them primarily as direct thread options. Additionally, a lot of folks who are using chemo and stuff like that are mag dumping in the trash at the range. And let's just talk about that in terms of temperature there before we close it out. So again, these can get up to 750 rounds. If you're using like 300 blackout for 750 degrees, excuse me, if you're using like 300 blackout or 556, you can get through a magazine safely without having to worry about that. So I think it is a good option, not just for hunting and things like that. But honestly, home defense, this one here is going to go on one of my home defense rifles after this video is over. And obviously I have a lot of choices to choose from. So that tells you something. It's going on one of my 300 blackout home defense guns. I really like it. I like that lightweight out there at the end. And I'm perfectly comfortable with the 750 degree temperature restrictions. If we go beyond that, we're going to be making the news. You know what I mean? So at that point, a lot of other things have gone wrong. If we got to 750 degrees on your home defense silencer. So there is that. I think that's pretty much it in terms of information on the silencers. If you guys have questions or anything like that, that you want to know, let me know down below in the comment section, as always. Additionally, if you guys aren't following me on all my various social media places, that is definitely something I recommend for a variety of reasons. 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