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A2Z METALWORKER 32 Sept/Oct 2009

SilencerCo doesnt introduce a new

rearm silencer to the market unless

t is exceeds the performance of any

other silencer available. Period.

Founders Jonathon Shults and Joshua Waldron arenot gun anatics - they each only own a ew guns. Josh

and Jonathon are young and aggressive in business,and they saw a very large market potential or top gradeilencers with ew competitors. The two are savvy in

business, in innovation, in marketing, and in technology.hey saw a uture business with competitors who areypically large corporations who, by the very nature oheir size, innovate slowly and take a long time to bring

new products to the market.SilencerCo launched their business one and a hal

ears ago with a dream. The ounders purchased a CNCmachine and got to the task o designing and buildingilencers. Jonathon said, the science behind a silencer

was ascinating or me, just to be able to tame a humogous explosion.

It took a ull 6 months to secure the Federal FirearmLicences (FFL) and the Special Operations Tax (SOTwhich would make the company a class 2 manuacturo rearms. Though they had a concept, they could nbegin manuacturing the silencers until they receivethese licences.

SilencerCo launched its rst commercial product, th22Sparrow silencer, In January o 2009. It is compatibwith anything that shoots .22lr, including rifes and pistoThe 22Sparrow is the rst .22LR silencer to oer SilencerCpatented Multi Part Containment (MPC) technology, whiallows the 22Sparrow to be disassembled or cleaning anmaintenance easily ater more than 1000 rounds havbeen red through it. Each 22Sparrow component is madrom aerospace quality aluminum with Type III hard coanodizing or maximum durability. The 22Sparrow oe40 db o sound reduction dry. Over the past year, th22Sparrow sales have grown dramatically, being distr

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more important, we want a supplier that does whasays it will do, and its produdo what they say they do. SilencerCos products up to this standard, and expect this o our supplWe get this rom suppliers Delcam. Feature CAM is eto use - I can modiy a pmysel, and I can do specoding or our products v

easily. This was really apping to me.

Whats next f

SilencerCo?

Today, the company sprimarily to civilians via retail channel and distributsales. The company plansexpand its business into

State and Local Government industries (e.g. Law Enoment) and into the Department o Deense industry. next products, Josh said, will open up this marketSilencerCo. Research on products or the 556 and 3caliber rifes is expected to begin beore year end, wproduction orecasted or mid-year next year. Its 36,0square oot acility will easily accomodate SilencerCplanned growth.

For more inormation on the latest innovationssilencer technologies and products, contact Silencetoday. You can reach them at 801-417-5384 or go to twebsite at www.silencerco.com.

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uted in gun shops throughout the United States and with3 authorized distributors supporting sales. 22Sprarrowsperorm so well that not one silencer has been returnedto the company in its history.

As we go to print, the innovative SilencerCo willlaunch its second silencer oering, the Osprey. Osprey,with two SilencerCo patents pending, will be, to thecompanys knowledge, the quietest 45 ACP pistol silencerin the world. It will result in sound reduction o morethan 30 db, and will be one o only 2 silencers that are

classied as hearing sae shot without hearing protec-tion. The Osprey took just 3 months rom conception toproduction. SilencerCo can bring products to market soquickly, Jonathon said, because we do the engineer-ing, the research, the testing, and the manuacturing allin-house. Our competitors have an R&D sta, but thenthey take their prototype products to outside shops ormachining, and this takes a substantial amount o time,as there are oten several iterations o a product beoreit goes to market.

The philosophy at SilencerCo is to purchase best inclass machinery and sotware to run their business. Inorder to manuacture the best products, and take themrom concept to production in the shortest amount otime, we only purchase the best equipment to run ourbusiness, Jonathonsaid. One o ourmost instrumentalpurchases was Del-cams FeatureCAMsotware. When thecompany startedup, they were usingcompetitive sotware.Jonathon says, Itwas really buggy orour mill/turn require-ments and thoughwe could simulatea part, i there wereany errors, it didntpost. When I sawthe FeatureCAM sot-ware demonstrationprovided by BlaineDuke, I knew it wasthe package we needed. (The company actually re-

turned the competitive sotware to the manuactureror a reund).

Blaine elaborated on the sotware savvy at SilencerCo.Our training usually entails about a week o instructionin order or the customer to be extremely procient withit. Jonathon didnt want or need any training (It is nosurprise, as Jonathon and Josh own a sotware develop-ment company, and Jonathon is able to write sotwarecode in 5 languages, all sel taught!)

Jonathon elaborated, As a new machine shop, localservice and support is key. We get this rom Delcam. Even