{"id":27858,"date":"2025-09-29T08:01:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/29\/an-interesting-silenced-bulgarian-makarov-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T08:01:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:01:58","slug":"an-interesting-silenced-bulgarian-makarov-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/29\/an-interesting-silenced-bulgarian-makarov-2\/","title":{"rendered":"An Interesting Silenced Bulgarian Makarov"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xFfHlXQT6qs?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Today we are taking a look at an interesting silenced Bulgarian Makarov with a mechanism added to lock the slide. This sort of feature is usually thought of as a sneaky way to avoid ejecting brass and leaving it behind, but it actually serves a much more practical purpose. One of the loudest elements of a suppressed pistol firing subsonic ammunition is actually the noise of pressurized gas escaping when the empty case is extracted and then the slide chambering a new round. A slide lock eliminates these sources of noise by preventing the slide from opening. While this is not a factory-made variant of the Makarov, it is an interesting mechanism that I thought worth covering.<\/p>\n<p>Silenced Pistol Playlist: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL9e3UCcU00TQ-0Vq_FO4gG0MVNX0YtPEO<br\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL9e3UCcU00TQ-0Vq_FO4gG0MVNX0YtPEO<br<\/a> \/><br \/>Many thanks to the Royal Armouries for allowing me to film and disassemble this interesting piece! 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This sort of feature is usually thought of as a sneaky way to avoid ejecting brass and leaving it behind, but it actually serves a much more practical purpose. One of the loudest elements of&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/29\/an-interesting-silenced-bulgarian-makarov-2\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An Interesting Silenced Bulgarian Makarov<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":27859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}