Suppressors: Hearing Protection for Hunters with Silencer Central CEO Brandon Maddox

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

Outdoors, Wilderness, Sports, Fishing, Outdoor, Hunting, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

BHA’s Podcast and Blast is proud to be sponsored by Silencer Central, the nation’s largest clearinghouse for silencers. Motto: “Silencers Made Simple since 2005.”

This episode features Brandon Maddox of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, who founded Silencer Central 20 years ago from his home. He saw both the growing demand for silencers and the difficulty of navigating federal regulations. Today, Silencer Central handles it all—from expert guidance on the right fit to a step-by-step process (simple enough for even Hal, a self-proclaimed Luddite) that delivers a silencer directly to your door.

Brandon is a long-range precision rifle shooter and an advocate for conservation, public lands and America’s hunting and shooting heritage.

Join us to hear from a businessman and conservationist, and get your questions answered about suppressors—and how they can improve your shooting and make it easier to introduce newcomers to hunting.

And our deepest thanks to Silencer Central for supporting this podcast and all of BHA’s work on behalf of our wild public lands, waters and wildlife.

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0:00.0	You know, we have the process where it's pretty much all automated.
0:08.9	Once we get your information and plug it in, you know, it'll send you the documents to sign.
0:12.5	And then it helps us upload them into the ATF website.
0:15.8	And then when they come back to prove, we can ship it right to your front door.
0:18.8	Ear plugs, I use them forever solid, you know. And Yeah. When it's freezing cold, like, they're hard as rocks. Totally. And freezing cold is what we hunt in. Yeah. Late season, big game hunting. Yeah. So I guess, yeah, there's a lot. There's a lot of reasons to move in this direction.
0:41.1	You know, before I would just say, hey, I'm a pharmacist, and then, you know, kind of left it,
0:44.6	just because there was some more negative connotation until people got educated.
0:49.6	Right. And that education is crept. Like, talk about mainstreaming something.
0:56.1	That education is like, like, in my family, for sure that it doesn't come up anymore.
1:00.0	It might have like 10 or 15 years ago, why would you need that?
1:00.9	Yeah, yeah, totally.
1:01.5	Yeah. And my answer to that was because I don't want to be any deffer.
1:06.6	Hey, everybody, it's Hal Herring, Back Country Hunters and Anglers Podcast and Blast.
1:11.4	Thanks for being here.
1:13.2	Hey, I am proud to announce we have a new sponsor for our podcast, and that is Silencer Central.
1:20.0	If you are involved in hunting and shooting or both, you are probably looking at owning or dreaming of owning a silencer suppressor, the same thing
1:31.1	for your firearm.
1:33.8	I've got my first one a couple years ago.
1:36.6	It's been a complete game changer for me.
1:39.1	I'm just looking at another one right now for another rifle.
1:43.3	I will never go back to where I was.
1:47.7	So one of the things, Silencer Central is, has been around since 2005, founded as South Dakota
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