Gille

The Gille: Tradition and Competence

The Gille takes its name from the quiet professionals who knew the land, read the wind, protected the stock, and understood that success in the field depends on judgment as much as equipment. Built in that tradition, the Gille brings Evolution Moderators™ performance to big-bore airguns with a design focused on control, restraint, and practical field use.

It is not made to be flashy. It is made to be trusted. Balanced for real rifles, shaped for real conditions, and built for shooters who value quiet competence, the Gille carries an old idea into modern form: know the ground, respect the shot, and leave less behind than you found.

Threads: M10 x 1, 1/2 x 28 UNF, 1/2 x 20 UNF, M14 x 1, M14 x 1.25, M16 x 1,  M18 x 1, M19 x 1.5, M20x1, M20x2 and Airsoft.  Also EZLOK inserts are now supported.  EZM10, EZHAF (l1/2 UNF) and EZM14.  This is going to generate questions about where to get the inserts and how to use them.  I will create a PDF for DL to answer those questions.

DISCLAIMER:   This design HAS NOT been tested with calibers larger than 30 caliber.  If you decide to build one of these in 9mm or larger you are STRONGLY CAUTIONED to use NYLON-CF as your build material.  Set an absolute minimum of 5 outer walls, 5 innerwalls and 5 top and bottom layers.  Set an absolute minimum of 33% gyroid infill.  None of this should be construed to warrant a safe outcome. Wear SAFETY EQUIPMENT.  You are on your own.  Report your results.

Theory of Operation

Evolution Moderators™ are airgun moderators designed computationally, selected competitively, and kept only if they perform. They are not copied from conventional layouts or tuned by guesswork. Each design was developed through a genetic algorithm written with AI assistance to simulate candidate geometries using two-dimensional computational fluid dynamics. The models offered here were selected from a population of roughly 35 million design candidates. Additional experimental designs, not listed here, have been extracted from populations as large as 50 million candidates.

The purpose is not simply to make the largest possible moderator or chase a single number on a sound meter. The purpose is practical quiet: reduced sharpness, lower peak energy, controlled release of pressure, and accuracy you can count on. If a design does not preserve accuracy, it does not make the catalog.

The stack inside an Evolution Moderator™ does three basic things. It gives the muzzle blast room to expand, redirects the pressure wave away from the pellet’s flight path, and delays the release of that pressure so the shot is less abrupt. Circumferentially vented frustums—cone-shaped baffles—divert the high-pressure puff outward, down the sides of the baffles, and through vents that fragment the pressure wave. That process creates controlled turbulence near the inside wall of the moderator tube while helping strip disturbed airflow away from the base of the pellet.

As the pressure front moves through the stack, it encounters anechoic structures protruding from the tube wall into the outer airflow path. These structures further disturb and slow the pressure wave along the sides of the tube. When the wave reaches the next frustum, part of it reflects from the cone surface, creating a localized high-pressure region that resists continued forward movement. The following chamber then behaves much like a passive flow-restricting diode: as chamber pressure rises, back pressure builds and slows the advancing pressure front.

That delay spreads the muzzle blast over a longer period of time instead of allowing it to exit as a short, sharp impulse. The result is less peak acoustic energy and less of the hard, high-frequency crack that tends to make a shot stand out, especially in the roughly 3 kHz to 12 kHz range. At the same time, the design helps manage energy in the 300 Hz to 3 kHz audio band, producing a smoother, less abrupt report.

Each model in the line has a role. The lil’ Spook is small, light, and quiet for its size. The Ember is the compact hunter’s model. The Standard is the go-to benchmark. The Ideal is sized to compare fairly against the market average. The Wraith is quiet and unobtrusive. The Krait is compact, efficient, and more capable than its size suggests. For larger airguns, the Gille, Coyote, and Stealth extend the same design philosophy into big-bore territory, where higher air volume and heavier projectiles demand more control, more capacity, and more disciplined pressure management.

Test Evolution Moderators™ beside your favorites. Just make the comparison fair. Match caliber to caliber, and compare moderators of similar volume rather than judging by length or diameter alone. Then decide for yourself.

Notice: There is a number associated with every model and caliber.  It is caliber and model specific. It takes the form YYMMDDHHMM.NNN.  Year, Month, Day, Hours, Minutes. Fitness.  It is printed on the device itself.  You can look at the stl to get that number. This tells you when the moderator came out of the GA and was created in OpenSCAD.  It also gives you the fitness value the GA assigned to it.  The only thing you care about is that date time inscription.  

White Paper and Technical Information

Today (2026-08-19) I am updating the designs which accept EzLok inserts.  These are a steel insert which is threaded on the outside and inside.  They can be threaded into the attachment end of a printed moderator to add steel threads.  There are videos on the vendor's site which explain the use of them. 

https://www.ezlok.com/videos

The part numbers you want are:

E-Z LOK 319-820 for a 1/2x20; TAP is 5/8 x 11

E-Z LOK 329-1412 for an M14x1.25; TAP is 3/4 x 16

E-Z LOK 329-1008 for an M10x1; TAP is 9/16 x 18