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Hardware Talk: Springfield Hellcat Threaded Barrels
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Hardware Talk: Springfield Hellcat Threaded Barrels

Jimmie Dempsey
Last updated: December 31, 2024 5:52 pm
Jimmie Dempsey Published December 31, 2024
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The Springfield Armory Hellcat Pro, here with the regular barrel installed and the suppressed option barrel next to it.

Want to suppress your Hellcat? Here we take a look at Springfield Armory’s threaded barrel options for the Hellcat and Hellcat Pro.

The Springfield Armory Hellcat is one slick little blaster. As an everyday carry in 9mm, it offers 11+1 rounds with their flush-fit magazine and 13+1 with an extended one (which isn’t very extended and is probably your standard carry mag). Practicing with it is fun and rewarding.

Sometimes, however, you want even more fun, so a lot of shooters now own suppressors for maximum fun.

But, what to do with your Hellcat? Simply fire up the old interwebs machine and track down the latest extra for Springfield Armory’s Hellcat: a suppressor barrel.

This is a drop-in barrel that’s just like the one currently in your Hellcat … but extended and threaded. Same manufacturing process, tight dimensions, reliable feeding and an ultra-tough Melonite finish to make the surface harder than sin and slicker than [the editor won’t let me go there].

You can even have your choice of the regular Hellcat, in which case your barrel grows from 3 to 3.7 inches, or if you happen to own the Hellcat Pro version like mine, going with a suppressor option your barrel goes from its standard 3.7 to 4.4 inches in length.

Springfield Hellcat Threaded Barrels
The suppressor-ready barrel comes from Springfield Armory with a thread protector installed. You’ll need to remove this to assemble the barrel and to install the suppressor.

To install, unload, strip the Hellcat as if for cleaning and remove the barrel. Unscrew the thread protector currently on the suppressor barrel. Then, install it as you reassemble your Hellcat or Hellcat Pro. It’s that easy. The muzzle is threaded for the standard 9mm suppressor thread pitch, that is, ½-28, so all the regular suppressors you may or may not own will fit right on. To install the suppressor, remove the thread protector (if you put it back in after assembly) and screw on the suppressor.

If you opt to add to your fun, the threaded suppressor-ready barrel, of either length, will run you $169.99. Considering the cost of a suppressor and the cost of ammo for a range day, this isn’t a big deal.

And as it’s made to the same specs as your non-threaded barrel, the very idea that you might wear out this barrel is out of the question. So, you can even stash the original barrel back in the safe and leave the suppressor barrel on your Hellcat all the time. If it’s your EDC pistol, the extra length won’t be noticed in a proper holster. And, the extra length will give you a few more fps out of whatever load you have chosen to use.

If you just use the suppressor-ready barrel for the range and suppressed, the barrel comes in a storage tube, so you won’t leave it rattling around in your safe, unprotected.

Fair warning: A suppressed pistol is giggle-worthy fun, and once you start down that road you may find yourself with a shelf full of suppressors in your safe … and a raft of pistols set up to use them. If that’s the case, you can blame me and Springfield Armory for pointing you that way.

What can I say? I like to spread the joy.

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Gun Digest the Magazine.


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