Before you order your handguard, have you considered shortening the barrel to a SBR? With a suppressor attached, I prefer a shorter barrel as it helps a lot with balance & weight. You see folks cutting all the way down to 4.5" barrels but I went with an 11" barrel, so that with my Sparrow attached, I'm back to carbine length.

Now is the time to decide. You can get a stamp approved for the SBR much quicker than the stamp for the suppressor.

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I've got several SBRs and suppressors already... Pretty much everything I've had has been approved in about 2 months give or take a few days.

Anyway... I have considered it, but at the end of a day, its still just a .22LR and I don't know how much I want to invest in it. I have a ton of other toys too.

I completely understand. However, even though the 15-22 is just a 22, I still find I enjoy shooting it as much or more than my other guns... especially once I put the metal handguard on it.

A week or so back I was out shooting my suppressed SBR 300 Blackout along with my suppressed SBR 15-22. Even with the way cool factor of shooting the Blackout suppressed, I found I enjoyed shooting the 15-22 a bit more. Granted, that is kinda like having a bucket of chocolate ice cream & a bucket of strawberry & saying the strawberry was better.

Maybe a factor is every trigger pull on the Blackout cost me .84 while each on the 15-22 cost me .10. In that regard the 15-22 is the big winner & worth every penny I've put in it. Truly, the only real difference between shooting both is the 15-22 is a bit quieter while the Blackout kicks a bit... like a "real" gun.

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That's actually why I just bought a 15-22 the other day. Shot a suppressed demo one at the range and I thought it was a lot of fun. More importantly, my wife loves shooting it and she doesn't always like shooting my other stuff. Plus I take friends shooting for the first time and something like a .22LR seems like it would be way less intimidating than some of my others.

The 15-22 is a great gun to initiate new shooters. Add a suppressor & it just gets even better. I've had folks scared to shoot anything have a ball shooting my suppressed 15-22. Several of my friends who have shot my 15-22 now own their own.

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