Never heard of it and was curious if anyone here had any experience with one. Was made for the United Kingdom. Decent write up here about production and the silencing method used.
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Good luck finding an original to try out. There were only ever 130 or so in total made, only a small number that still exist in museums and private collections, and only a couple ever made it into the US and onto the NFA registry.

But there are/were a few different companies offering reproductions/conversions over the years here in the US. Looks like http://www.valkyriearms.com/delisle.html still offers their reproductions, at the low price of a mere $2500.


Here's a shot of members of the 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders trying out the a couple Delisle Carbines and a couple M1 or M2 Carbines. Taken in Malaya during 1952, in the midst of the Malayan Emergency.

The shooter on the left is General Sir Gerald Templer, then the British High Commissioner for Malaya.




And here's Forgotten Weapons' coverage of the DeLisle:




Link to original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtzaVil5joc

I'm pretty sure tac has had the opportunity to shoot one.

tac's guns video:

Here is a great video. I want one!



Jim

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Originally posted by ArtieS:
I'm pretty sure tac has had the opportunity to shoot one.

tac's guns video:

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TAC is a teenage girl.... ???

Neat gun. If I had a little more spare cash and were 20+ years younger ....

I am curious, though, about the two tax stamps requirement of the replica. Somewhere I got the idea that if an SBR had an integral suppressor, only one stamp was required. Is that not what the replica has, or am I just mistaken about my original belief?

Jim, thanks for the video. Man that thing is quiet. Wonder what we have currently that is being used by the teams for suppressed sound needs ? That thing makes my pump up Daisy air rifle, squirrel remover sound like a cannon.

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Originally posted by Fla. Jim:
Jim, thanks for the video. Man that thing is quiet. Wonder what we have currently that is being used by the teams for suppressed sound needs ? That thing makes my pump up Daisy air rifle, squirrel remover sound like a cannon.

Yeah, my .177 pellet rifle is super loud compared to the De Lisle. That's the beauty of a bolt action, no mechanical noise by moving parts. The best silencer won't suppress the sound of a bolt slamming a round in or the spring in a pellet rifle.

Jim

My buddy back in NC had one. He owned a gun store and was a manufacturer for all things “shush or full auto”

He had a original one that he let me shoot whenever I wanted. They are really quiet. Like 22lr suppressed quiet...I’ve not seen anything like a 22 suppressed that is Hollywood quiet, but the delisle is using factory 230 ball ammo.

Some of the other suppressed stuff is stupid quiet but it’s because it’s 44special or special loaded ammo for subsonic.

When he was getting ready to retire, he began selling off his auto/suppressed stuff...saw him sell a M2hb once...and a real Thompson....

Would love to have a "retro " one made. I have always thought that they were cool as $hit!

ARman