No baffles. 29 patents. A turbine engine in reverese. OSS Mission (Operators Suppressor Systems Mission) bills itself as the source “true next gen weapon suppression.” Damned if they may not be right, and we found out pretty much by accident. Frankly we were astonished once we started learning about their suppressors. These things may well be the most significant (and understated) new development on site at SHOT 2014. We accompanied Mad Duo Nate and Breach Bang Brad to the Beyond/OSS party, thankfully, but it was a near thing. There’s a story to all this. Mad Duo
We almost ditched the party – OSS Cans
Mad Duo Nate
We almost ditched the party. Slim, in the spirit of Vegas tradition wanted to bail on our handlers and head over to the AVN award show to motorboat Nikki Benz….again. But this trip was for Shot Show 2014, and we had people to meet, parties to attend and gear to finger bang. We talked the little bastard down with the promise that we’d go the next day. Arriving at the Beyond/ OSS mission party, we immediately realized that we made the right call. Hot chicks serving mixed drinks, Dogs attacking some douche in a padded suit to raise money for some good causes, hell even a bunch of dudes literally playing bagpipes towards the end….No leopards on chains and no single dancing moms on a trapeze, but other than that it was crazy.
As festive as the party was, our attention was immediately directed towards a bunch of suppressed M4 upper receivers lying on a coffee table. They all sported weird octagon shaped cans screwed onto the muzzles, and a few were disassembled reveling a strange baffle core. No sooner had Slim started fingering these hush puppies than some jacked dude with full sleeves came over with a shit eating grin on his face.
Great, thought I. Only two whiskeys and 10 minutes here, and we are already getting thrown out!
That’s a good time, even when you’re running the Duo.
“Hey guys, hows it going?” he asked. One firm handshake later and we’d met Johnny Primiano, one of the founders of OSS Mission. He copped a squat on the floor, and immediately started breaking down how his cans work. I was actually feeling bad about it. Here we were at the dude’s party, and hes completely ignoring all these industry guys and hot chicks to sit on the floor and explain gas erosion and decibel reduction to us. Slim didn’t give a shit, he loves sound suppressors and knows more about the subject then I ever will, but I was entranced. Swingin’ Dick had taken off with Brad, so it was just me and Johnny.
“The issue sound suppressors suck,” Johnny told us bluntly. “They are outside ear safe. Not inside ear safe. Ear safe to us is less than 140db in a 4x8ft room, at the shooters ear.”
He proceeded to explain his displeasure with the lack of a uniform testing procedure in the suppressor industry. By this point both Slim and I had the dude pegged as some sort of former snake-eater, and he was clearly knowledgable, so we gave him our undivided attention.
Seems a few years back Johnny met another SF trooper named Russell Oliver. Russell had gone to school for mechanical engineering before heading out to serve in the Army. These two partnered up with a shared vision of completely changing the way sound suppressors are made.
“When you wear out the tires on your car, you don’t throw the car away, you get new tires,” Johnny told us. He was explaining the concept behind their Back Pressure Regulator (BPR). The BPR is the OSS Mission flagship design that earned them a contract with Heckler & Koch. It is user serviceable and it is truly multicaliber capable because you bump the housing from gun to gun.
One of the unique features of the OSS Mission suppressor is its lack of a baffle stack. Simply put, the outside housing, the actual serialized NFA part, is slipped over a Flash hider Muzzle Break (FHMB) that serves as the baffle stack.
“It’s hard for people to get out of the mindset of not having baffles and concentric welding,” explained Johnny further, as Russell Oliver came over to join us. I was already on edge – first I was concerned they’d think I was monopolizing their time; secondly I knew how much Slim had had to drink, but neither Oliver nor Primiano seemed concerned. “Once your can is done, it’s done. You don’t get a replacement for shooting it out. With our design, you change out the Flash Hider Muzzle Break, and you go back to a round count of ZERO.”
That’s right – change the FHMB and you’re back at a round count of zero. How’s that for extending the longevity of your can?
These dudes have their shit together. They have 29 patents in one sound suppressor. It is easy to maintain, impossible to shoot off your gun, has reduced blowback do to spiral vents inside that create a longer linear distance for the gas to travel. Reduced flash signature, minimal point of impact shift when going from unsuppressed to suppressed……the list goes on. We could have sat there all night talking about the innovation and technology that these gents have created, despite all the hot busty distractions walking by and free booze.
However, we decided to do the respectful and courteous thing and break off so they could get back to hosting their party. This is just the story of how we first learned about OSS mission. You can mark my words, you’ll be hearing a whole hell of a lot more about them from us and other guys here in the near future. When I get the chance I’ll recant the other half of that nights story, after we left the party. It involves a Slim’s love of midget hookers and my hatred of forking out bail money.Stand by for further.
Meantime, check out OSS Mission on line and on Facebook.
Mad Duo, Breach-Bang & CLEAR!
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