In a local gunshop I once inquired about what appeared to be a heavy barreled (target weight), .22 LR with scope. The owner explained to me that it wasn't a heavy barrel but rather an integral "suppressor". He then proceeded to take it off the wall, load it with .22LR subsonic target ammo, and, standing right beside me, fire it into a steel bullet-trap at the other end of the counter (place was empty save us). All I heard was the soft "thud" of the firing pin strike and the metallic rattle as the bullet hit the trap and bounced around inside. If there was any noise created by the passage of the bullet through the air you would have had to have been insanely close to the line of flight to have heard it. The first (and only) utterly quite "silencer" I've ever experienced.
The suppressor was the full length of the barrel (about 22"), blued to match the receiver, inlet into the stock and probably 1.5" wide (which made the rifle look VERY heavy and what attracted my attention in the first place). So, basically, it required a suppressor 150 times the volume of the (weakly) loaded cartridge to completely suppress the discharge.
The suppressor was the full length of the barrel (about 22"), blued to match the receiver, inlet into the stock and probably 1.5" wide (which made the rifle look VERY heavy and what attracted my attention in the first place). So, basically, it required a suppressor 150 times the volume of the (weakly) loaded cartridge to completely suppress the discharge.
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