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Inexpensive .22 rifles with Threaded Barrels – Surprisingly Good Values
AmmoLand ^ | January 23, 2023 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 01/25/2023 3:50:55 AM PST by marktwain

If you have ever thought you might want, need or find useful a suppressed firearm, there is good news. .22 rifles with threaded barrels are available for very little money.

There are several reasons why you might consider buying inexpensive .22 rifles with threaded barrels:

Many years ago, traveling in a land far, far away, a close friend and “poacher” (hunting was forbidden altogether in that location) obtained a .22 single-shot rifle. Someone smuggled the rifle into the country, and ended up in a friend’s hands. He showed me how he made an improvised suppressor in about 30 minutes, which worked surprisingly well.

The tricky part was lining up the hole in the suppressor with the rifle’s bore. This was done by eye, centering the hole while looking through the suppressor, down the bore, and tightening the hose clamp which held the suppressor to the barrel.  It worked well but had to be checked frequently.

The most challenging part of making a practical, improvised suppressor is making sure the bore and suppressor are aligned.


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To: USS Alaska

My Dad taught me to shoot on a bolt action single shot .22. I’m still a much better shot with a rifle than a pistol.


41 posted on 01/25/2023 7:40:38 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Yes and yes. I clean it pretty good with CLP and I use the original 10 round mags. I would estimate that 1 out of 25 rounds jam. I tested various grain loads and it doesn’t seem to make a difference.


42 posted on 01/25/2023 7:57:50 AM PST by DeplorablePaul (protesters)
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To: DeplorablePaul
My wife and I picked up some Magnum Research 10/22 lookalike rifles. Hers was 17M2. Mine 22LR. Mine was cutting the rim on the ammo. Lots of misfires. I acquired a replacement firing pin with a broader surface. Problem solved. 100% ignition, no cutting. Magnum Research discontinued support for the 17M2. They converted my wife's rifle with a .22LR barrel and matching bolt (slightly different mass for 17M2 vs 22LR) at no cost to me.

I have bolt action Ruger 22LR rifles with threaded barrel for use with the Ruger suppressor. Quiet. Perfect for rabbit hunting.

43 posted on 01/25/2023 8:02:02 AM PST by Myrddin
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To: 109ACS
A 22LR shot from a rifle is supersonic so even with a suppressor you’ll get that distinctive crack sound. If the suppressor slows the bullet down below the speed of sound it will be pretty quiet.

I use subsonic ammo in a bolt action when using the suppressor. The suppressor isn't slowing the bullet down. It is capturing the high pressure gas progressively and bleeding off the pressure to mute the muzzle blast. The subsonic round doesn't have a supersonic "crack". If you shoot a supersonic round e.g. CCI MiniMag, you still benefit from the reduced muzzle blast through the suppressor, but the bullet will make a supersonic "crack".

44 posted on 01/25/2023 8:08:00 AM PST by Myrddin
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To: ArtDodger
Sub sonic ammo is quieter but in a semi-auto, there may be a chance of jamming as there isn’t enough oomph to eject the shell.

That is why I only shoot subsonic from a bolt action. It's frustrating when the semi-auto fails to cycle. My wife has a Ruger Deerfield 44mag rifle. She purchased some "Cowboy Action Shooting" 44mag ammo. It didn't produce enough gas to cycle the action. She fired it. No brass. Cycled the bolt. Out popped the expended brass. It turns out the rifle needs a real 44mag round in the weight range of 200 gr to 240 gr to properly cycle.

45 posted on 01/25/2023 8:13:21 AM PST by Myrddin
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To: DeplorablePaul

An adequately maintained 10/22 should not have problems with jams.
Maybe have a gunsmith look it over.


46 posted on 01/25/2023 8:32:09 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: marktwain

A friend in grad school in the 1970s told me he made a silencer using a cardboard tube for a .22 rifle and shot an escaped monkey that was bothering the neighbors in Coconut Grove.


47 posted on 01/25/2023 8:54:11 AM PST by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: Red Badger

“I saw on how to make a silencer with a lawnmower muffler. Wasn’t legal, wasn’t 100% effective, but it was okay for plunking....”


Many states have laws against suppressors, but the Federal law one would be breaking would be failure to register the lawnmower muffler and pay the required $200 tax. The law was passed in the days when the quaint idea prevailed that Congress could not ban things outright, but could tax them. The tax was so high (over $4000 in today’s money) thus effectively banning suppressors. Naturally the punishment for failing to pay the tax was, and still is, quite harsh.


48 posted on 01/25/2023 9:01:33 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: Travis McGee
The new Taurus TX22 (made in the USA) compact has a 1 in 10 twist barrel. It should stabilize the 60 grain Aguila sniper subsonic .22 cartridges.

I have seen very high variations in the 60 grain loads, and the slower twist barrel 1 in 16 only marginally stabilizes them.

I have heard the 60 grain load, or equivalent, was used in black ops south of the border...

49 posted on 01/25/2023 9:44:40 AM PST by marktwain
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To: 9422WMR
There are some .22 loads, which out of a rifle, have more energy than a some .32 acp loads out of a pistol.

CCI Velocitor and Aguila Interceptor exist with about 174 foot pounds of energy. Winchester is coming out with a 42 grain load at 1320 fps, with a deep hollowpoint for max expansion, at 165 foot pounds. An ordinary .32 acp has about 123 to 177 foot pounds of energy.

50 posted on 01/25/2023 9:53:53 AM PST by marktwain
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To: GOP_Party_Animal
Apparently, the author didn't feel the need to clue us in on "reverse paradox" or "bloop" tubes.

There is a link in the article to an article about reverse paradox tubes.

Bloop tubes are more common. As stated, they extend the length of the barrel so as to extend the sight radius. Not all need a threaded barrel.

51 posted on 01/25/2023 10:01:12 AM PST by marktwain
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To: marktwain

The 60 gr load is also used by the IDF to plink “protestors” (with molotovs, walkie-talkies, etc) in a “mostly less than lethal” way, such as at the femur.


52 posted on 01/25/2023 10:22:09 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: marktwain

PS: I have not tried the 60 gr Aguila SSS from my Taurus 22, but thanks for the reminder. I will do it soon.

It functions perfectly thru my Ruger Standard Model with a 6” barrel, but the slugs keyhole. They randomly hit the paper sideways at 15 yards more or less. Which may or may not be a plus for a defensive 22.

Pretty nasty wound channel I’d guess, because that 60 gr slug is long. Be an interesting test in ballistic gel. See how many hit at what angle at what range out of a pistol, and what they do.


53 posted on 01/25/2023 10:26:11 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: smokingfrog

Magazines, too.


54 posted on 01/25/2023 10:36:53 AM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Travis McGee
Only the new TX22 compact has the 1 - 10 twist. 3.6 inch barrel. 13 round magazines. 16.5 ounces, optic ready.

Saw it at the shot show.

Probably not in stores yet.

My article hasn't been published in AmmoLand yet.

55 posted on 01/25/2023 10:39:47 AM PST by marktwain
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To: Red Badger

Oil filters work also.


56 posted on 01/25/2023 10:46:40 AM PST by MrKatykelly (Obama was the proof of concept puppet.)
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To: MrKatykelly

Never thought of that.

But you’d have to drain it first!.................😜


57 posted on 01/25/2023 10:48:31 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Loud Mime

Unless I’m mistaken, there has never been an instance of participant or fan violence in scholastic shooting. Certainly all the kids I’ve worked with in 4H, etc... were very well mannered.


58 posted on 01/25/2023 10:51:12 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim ( )
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To: USAF1985

Did you go out and stalk grizzlys in the blueberry bushes on base?


59 posted on 01/25/2023 11:51:05 AM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: MrKatykelly

Oil filters work very well, but sights have to be pretty high to get around them...


60 posted on 01/25/2023 11:59:50 AM PST by marktwain
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