A No Permit Supressed (silenced) 22 Rifle

[minimus]

A silenced weapon has tactical advantages for hunting tree-rats and wabbits after SHTF

I was using 22 shorts in my Ruger 22 but loading was a PITA, one by one by hand.

Here's CCI's 22 CB Long ammo that feeds from the clip without all the hassle.

Deadly quiet, no FFL tax, stamp or other Fed B.S. About 700 fps at 30 gr / equal to a high powered spring piston hunting air rifle but a hell of a lot more quiet.

[funk]

Let me start by saying I learned to be overly safe when it comes to firearms. This moron is shooting a rifle with a house directly behind his target. I don't care caliber, or type of round that he is shooting, that is just poor judgement of his part.

[oldgaranddad]

Converting the 10/22 rotary magazine to take .22 shorts would be interesting idea. Probably a money maker too! Nearly anyone with a 10/22 would buy one just to have handy to dispatch a rat or other varmint at close range. Even if you had to cycle the bolt manually I think it would be a winner. I haven't seen a .22 short in years at a gun store.

[hoarder]

I tried the CCI 22 CB Longs and found the accuracy rather poor. I killed more squirrels when I switched back to 22 LR.

[Unclad Lad]

Converting the 10/22 rotary magazine to take .22 shorts would be interesting idea. Probably a money maker too!

It's been done. A much less costly option is a tube-fed bolt or pump rifle that will already shoot LR, L, and S. They're very affordable. And there are a number of subsonic LR rounds that make very little noise.

[Lt Dan]

I tried the CCI 22 CB Longs and found the accuracy rather poor. I killed more squirrels when I switched back to 22 LR.

CBs are mostly not intended for anything other than point blank use. I used to use them to dispatch trapped animals back in the day, up until I tried them on a coyote. All they did was pi$$ him off big time. Had to dig out a stinger for them after that. I've used them to dispatch animals in live traps, since accuracy doesn't matter at that kind of range.

[brosil]

LaPua makes an excellent subsonic round with an extra soft very heavy slug. Shoot them in a long barreled bolt action and all you here is the click of the firing pin.

[quickie]

unless they are 500 fps, I find that level of "quiet" hard to believe. While cb caps are fairly quiet, they are considerably noiser than most pellet guns. maybe a supersonic pellet guns sonic crack is loud, but sub 1000 fps is a lot more common, and very quiet indeed. One thing all who have shot a .22lr conversion in an AR-15 notice is that it is quieter. Enough of the .22's powder gas is bled off into the 223 gas tube to make an audible difference. Use the 60 gr Aquila subsonic .22lr rd in such a unit, and it's as quiet as a CB cap, while offering twice as much power and rapidfire. These loads cycle the action normally. Given a 30 shot magazine and 4 hits per second, that adds up to quite a bit of "dont kid yourself".

[minimus]

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For those of us who don't use a $1200 AR15 to shoot cheap 22 subsonic ammo ...

[quickie]

My kit built AR cost $600, and I can sell it for that much tomorrow, if I want. :-) In this world you have to pay a lot for small increases in performance. I try to see to it that those costs are minimal. Many guys waste a lot more than $600 a year, making noise with "low dollar" bolt clunkers, like the Mosin.

[SilverCity]

CBs out of a bolt gun are noticeably quieter than any of the more powerful pellet rifles, hit much harder, and for my Marlin and CZ maintain useable accuracy out to 30-40 yards. YMMV

SC

[quickie]

again, who says you have to use the supersonic pellet rifle? I've shot many a starling and squirrel with CB's, back when I had a 'sporterized" 52B Winchester match rifle. I got it with the Kenyan set trigger. it had no safety, had to just leave the bolt up until ready to fire. It was zeroed at 50 ft with Eley Tenex match ammo, and at that range, braced over a car window, you could 'call" which bill you were going to shoot off of a bird, top or bottom one. :-) while they are pretty quiet, they aint as quiet as a good pellet rifle.