CCI quiet .22lr review

Project is dead in the water......for a little while. I got my new blue spring in and put it in the 15-22 and was going to start trimming the old recoil spring for the subsonic conversion. Went to the range, sighted in the 15-22 after swapping optics around and immediately began having light strikes, about 20 out 300 rounds. My 15-22 did not like the 15 minute trigger job. I called it quits and decided to finish sighting the rifle in and did not start the recoil spring work. I guess I can try the JP Yellows and test reliability before going back to the factory trigger springs.
 
Alright, now you have my interest in this subject. I will get a video done and up on YouTube here in the next week or so shooting the CCI Quiet out of both the M&P 15-22 and the M&P 15-22p pistol. I am very curious to see if will cycle out of the 6" pistol barrel.

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The fact that the 15-22 will cycle the Quiets at all is what has my interests up. I get so many compliments on my little rifle that I think it would be really cool to expand the capabilities of it. I have two other .22's that will not cycle subsonics, but that's okay since I just cycle them like bolt actions. Problem with the 15-22 is that it does cycle them and not reset the trigger. That forces you to cycle it manually ejecting the good round in the chamber. All it lacks is trigger reset. After taking advice on reducing the hammer spring to achieve hammer reset, I had hoped I'd be good to go. However, the loss of reliable operation has me rethinking the whole thing. I'm thinking that with the blue recoil spring, according to previous posts found in my searches, is suppose to be a lighter spring than the original. If I pair that with a lighter firing pin spring, that may be enough even with the factory hammer spring. I'm kicking myself right now though. I sighted in the rifle today using Federal Bulk. I had two boxes of quiets in front of me, but after I got aggravated about the light strikes, It never crossed my mind to try the quiets. I'd be curious to know if I've achieved trigger reset with the 15 minute trigger job and the lighter blue spring. Either way, the current setup is not reliable and I will not settle for that.
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I did find one thing out about the quiets.......................I was sighting in my Springfield Model 60 with the CCI Quiets. I had a target board setup at 25 yards with four 24" targets stapled to it. The target board was very thin, 1/8" particle board supplied by the range. Every shot was puncturing the particle board, no surprise. When I started in on my far left target, the guy on my left sighting in his Suppressed AR .308 called for the Range Master to check out his target at 100 yards. He had three shots dead center all touching each other and three shots in about a 5" pattern at the bottom right of his target. When I heard the range master say that somebody else had to be shooting his target, it dawned on me that it might be possible that it was me. I told the range master that I was shooting subs and there was no way that I was puncturing the board and still landing on paper at 100 yards. He had me take another shot...bulls eye at 25 yards, bottom right corner of the target to my left at 100 yards. About an 18" drop, but on paper none the less. Needless to say the 40gr. bullets were tearing the paper and bouncing off of the particle board at 100 yards. Thought that was kinda cool.
 
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Just so everyone knows, I'm boycotting Wal-Mart! In store now trying to get an answer as to how the price on CCI Quiets went up from $3@box to $7.97@box in less than a week and they are refusing to do their advertised price match...."We don't price match guns and ammunition!". I'm not leaving quietly!

Edit! There's a freakin price match guarantee sign at the gun counter!
 
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That is strange with price change at walmart. I checked one near me a few weeks ago and I didn't see that the even carried it. Was at another walmart one city over and they had 2 boxes at $3, and were supposed to get more in just a couple days later. Third walmart half a state away a week after that and they had 10 boxes at $3. Went back to the first walmart and they had some in for $8. Haven't been back to the second one or had anyone check the third for me. I was hoping it was just the one store and they had mislabeled it.
 
I just got off the.phone with a Wal-Mart 30 miles away that I visit from time to time. $2.97@box. The guy laughed when I told him $7.97@box. He said that's what you get for shopping at an anti-gun Wal-Mart. He said they can price match guns and ammo but elect not to. He also said they limit stock and regularly over price their ammo and guns. He then invited be his newest happy customer.
 
Unit505 said:
I just got off the.phone with a Wal-Mart 30 miles away that I visit from time to time. $2.97@box. The guy laughed when I told him $7.97@box. He said that's what you get for shopping at an anti-gun Wal-Mart. He said they can price match guns and ammo but elect not to. He also said they limit stock and regularly over price their ammo and guns. He then invited be his newest happy customer.
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And the lack of ammo, in many cases, is because the sporting goods manager doesn't order it! Many don't want to be bothered.
 
I zoned in on a pretty big squirrel a little while ago with the CCI Quiets. I was actually using the old Marlin Model 60 which I have sighted in very consistently at 25 yards with open sights. This little guy was about 35 yards out and I aimed for a head shot......Pop, I swear he ducked and I saw the bullet hit right behind him. He spun around and looked where the bullet hit and kept right on eating his acorn. I took a second shot and it was considerably louder than the first shot. I aimed for the same head shot as before with him sitting upright. He jumped this time when I pulled the trigger and the round caught him in the hind quarters. He rolled around and had run up the tree by the time that I made it outside and to the tree. I got him running around the tree and he finally fell. The dogs did the dirty work of putting him down before I could catch him. I hit him in the left rear leg and there was no exit wound. I cleaned him and never did find the round. I can only guess that the bullet fell out while the dogs were battling it out with him.

Long story short, just as most all .22lr ammo, not every round is perfect when it comes to the load and report. I'm half way through my 3rd box of quiets, about 125 rounds, and this was the first round that I've had that "Cracked" and sounded like it went sonic. Overall, I'm still impressed enough that I stopped by Academy Sports today and picked up three more boxes. The accuracy has been outstanding and on paper, I've had zero fliers out of the 125 rounds that I've put down range. The CCI web site shows the trajectory to be as follows......

25 YARDS = 1.5
50 YARDS = 0.0
75 YARDS = -6.4
100 YARDS = -17.8

I'm only sighted in at 25 yards since that gets me the back yard shots that I need. I'd be interested though to see the consistency of the Quiets at 50 yards.
 
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Shooterjgs said:
Yea I shoot the CCI Quiet also and really like them... just a little loader than Aguila's "quiet" round but alot more accurate...
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They should be. The Aguila has a 60g slug which requires a barrel twist of around 1:9 to spin at the correct rate for its weight, whereas about 100% of 22 rifles have a 1:16 twist. the Aguilas are really good in an AR with a CMMG .22 conversion which has the correct twist for them.
 
jsha22lr said:
INTRO
I previously had tried other quiet .22 ammo, but none of them lived up to my expectation of accuracy. so when i heard CCI releasing this ammo and claiming it to be accurate, I was sceptical. However, trying not to be baised, Me and my dad went a head and bought a whole case of them. Yes we bought a case instead of a box. WHY? Well, why not. If they were loud, then we could use them else where. so with that in mind we got two rifles, a glenfield marlin model 75 and a mp15-22, and later a marlin xt-22. In this review, I will be going over the quality of the ammo, how it shoots & how loud it is, and how accurate it is.

Quality: We order a whole case (5 bricks of 10 boxes of 50 cartridges = 2500 rounds) for 168$ from CTD. THe bricks where packaged nicely, and the boxes had the standard plastic piece that holds the cartridges securely in the box. The cartridges have a very nice case that the CCI velocitor uses, that is its very shiney and clean. The bullet is the same that is used in the CCI blazer that is packed in the boxes, not the loose packed. The bullet is a 40gr. so its got some heft to it. It does have a little bit of powder wich allowes it to leave the rifle.

SHOOTING: In an open field it is very silent. As in i can hear the firing pin hitting it. In an area that has something where sound can bounce off, such as the woods, it sounds like a .22 pellet rifle. However, how loud of a pellet it sounds like depends on the barrel length. the 16" m&P sounds like a pellet rifle with a little bit lighter wieght pellets. the 18" marlin sounds like a normal pellet rifle, that is a soft pop. Out of a 22" barrell xt-22, you can hear the bullet hitting the target and thats about it. CCI states "NOTE: These cartridges may be used in semi-automatic firearms, however manual
cycling of the action may be required". however in my 15-22, they will cycle the action. Out of a marlin/glenfield mod 75 and a friends 10/22, they WILL NOT cycle the action, so it turn it into a bolt gun. Of course the xt-22 does not require them to clycle, since its a bolt gun.

ACCURACY:
One word could be used to discribe this ammo. CONSISTANT! I'm talking one whole the size of a whole in a coke can tab. Very nice grouping out of the 15-22, maybe a little bit less than a inch. Now out of a marlin, whoo, I feel like i could take out a flie with these. Both marlin rifles repeatedly would group them into a one hole group. Now lets be real: you wont shoot these out past 50, and to me that strecthing it. These dont have much steam, so they will drop. To me, in my humble opinion, its the perfect squirrel round. A head shot with these will drop a squirrel. I have take several with this and my xt-22. once I figure out how to post pics, i will show the groupings.

Conclusion:
This ammo is a fun round to have. Its consistant and quiet. perfect for back yard fun or to teach with out the noise. Its an acurrate squirrel load that wont do much damage to the fur or meat. All things considered, i suggest buying a box or two, its fun and addicting
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You obviously don't have any experience in long range rimfire benchrest shooting. If you did you would not make that statement about the bullet drop. Drop has no effect on accuracy. That ammo is the same speed and has close to identical drop to Lapua and Eley Match ammo. For real accuracy in .22LR you do not want to shoot anything that goes faster than 1100 FPS regardless of the drop. If you want more energy at 100 yards to make a few critters deceased that is another requirement. You don't need quarter size groups at 100 yards for that (but it would be nice).
 
Old thread, but I'm shooting these out in the backyard today. Much better than Remington CBees. Using my little Smith kit gun with a 4 inch barrel, at 50 yards I can hit a concrete block all day long. I got to where I started aiming at the last puff of concrete dust and they were all hitting the same spot. That's offhand, 50 yards, 150 feet. . .good ammo.
 
I do quite a bit of shooting with CCI Quiets out of my Henry action .22 The stuff is quiet enough to not really need hearing protection, and it is accurate stuff. It makes me laugh everytime I shoot it which is several times per week. It moves slow, so there's a huge delay at longer steel plates. I can hit a plate over and over at 100 yards with my Henry. Really fun stuff.
 
photoracer said:
You obviously don't have any experience in long range rimfire benchrest shooting. If you did you would not make that statement about the bullet drop. Drop has no effect on accuracy. That ammo is the same speed and has close to identical drop to Lapua and Eley Match ammo. For real accuracy in .22LR you do not want to shoot anything that goes faster than 1100 FPS regardless of the drop. If you want more energy at 100 yards to make a few critters deceased that is another requirement. You don't need quarter size groups at 100 yards for that (but it would be nice).
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This is super old, and I'm just now seeing this. I don't care to much for long range bench shooting with rim fires. I don't have much interest in the sport. Since writing this I've gotten more knowledgeable about ballistics and guns in general. I still think the 22 quiets are ideal for closer range shooting and hunting. I've also gotten a Checkmate QD suppressor, which I'll also do a write up on, and with a can the quiets are mouse fart loud. I used them in my back yard to teach more than a few people shoot. My neighbors and I were holding a conversation while I was shooting. Needless to say the quiets are my favorite subsonic rounds. They will eject and load out of a 15-22 with a can on it, but won't cock the hammer. Working on that, plan on getting a SSA or G2S to put in the gun.
 
I bought a carton of these for the Grandkid's visit. They easily hit 2 1/2" spinners @ 25 yards with my Grandkid's favorite 22 rifle --- This 104 year old 1906 Winchester. Worked well in my Kit Gun also.

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It's funny that this thread is brought back to life now. I tried these for the first time last weekend in an old Remington semi-auto rifle I recently got. Basically, I was firing any 22 ammo I had that was not high velocity. I must have got these during the 22 shortage for my revolver.

Shooting at an indoor range, they were almost freakishly quiet after firing standard 22 rounds. You could hear noises from the action that you wouldn't ordinarily, I swear.

Remington Model 24

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I use the CCI Quiets for pest control. Very quite and reasonably accurate out of an old Remington 510 Target Master single-shot. They have been very effective on coons & squirrels in the bird-feeders to groundhogs eating the wifes' flowers and burrowing in the backyard.

Don
 
I got these CCI Quiets as they were the only sub-sonic rounds I could purchase locally.

I am not impressed with respect to "quietness" and accuracy. They sound like any other 22 report, at least in my opinion. Maybe a tiny bit less but not much. I don't know if it is because I am shooting them out of a revolver (17-4) or what.

I didn't think the accuracy was that great either. I use them to rid my property of destructive chipmunks and take shots at 5yds or less. I have missed so many shots, but my point of aim was dead on. It is not the 17-4 because I can eat the bullseye out @ 25ft with good HV ammo. Plus, I have custom Herrett target stocks that make the gun feel a part of me.

So I wouldn't mind trying another brand of "quiet" 22.
 
iPac said:
I got these CCI Quiets as they were the only sub-sonic rounds I could purchase locally.

I am not impressed with respect to "quietness" and accuracy. They sound like any other 22 report, at least in my opinion. Maybe a tiny bit less but not much. I don't know if it is because I am shooting them out of a revolver (17-4) or what.

I didn't think the accuracy was that great either. I use them to rid my property of destructive chipmunks and take shots at 5yds or less. I have missed so many shots, but my point of aim was dead on. It is not the 17-4 because I can eat the bullseye out @ 25ft with good HV ammo. Plus, I have custom Herrett target stocks that make the gun feel a part of me.

So I wouldn't mind trying another brand of "quiet" 22.
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Out of a pistol or revolver they will be loud. I think they were made to be shot out of a rifle. They are going slower than HV ammo, so you poi/poa is going to be different than HV ammo. I wouldn't discredit them so quickly. I would try them out of a rifle, the report is going to be less. When I shoot them out my pistol with my suppressor they are pretty quiet.
 
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