RedNeck Jim
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In another thread, I discussed my stamp from the BATFE came in and that I was able to pick up my 22Sparrow suppressor that I purchased in early January. Today I shot it for the first time. Before this week, I had never seen a suppressor in person and had never heard one shot before. So all this is new to me & I thought I might post my experience... from a newbie's perspective.
I went down to my new shooting range I'm building in my bottom pasture and shot 100 rounds each of CCI subsonic, CCI standard velocity and Aguila 40 gr SuperExtra standard velocity. I shot without any hearing protection. My first impression was, dang, this bolt assembly sure makes a lot of noise when it cycles. Second impression was dang, that 22 bullet is loud when it hits the target. Point being, I just didn't hear any bang at all... not in the least. Granted, my hearing isn't the best in the world, but I just never heard the gun go off. With no bang & no hearing protection, it is amazing what you can now hear.
As far as ammo, for each variety I would shoot a whole magazine nice & slow, one as fast as I could squeeze the trigger and the balance as a mixture of fast & slow. Both CCI functioned flawlessly but the Aguila gave me on average one FTF per magazine. Looking at the round, they had light strikes and I haven't had any light strikes since I installed my CMC trigger. My last magazine of this stuff also failed to stay open after the last round fired and that has never happened to me before. So makes me think something is up with this ammo or at least this batch I have. One reason I say this goes back to what I said earlier, in that you can really hear the bolt cycle. With the CMC, the sound was always uniform. With the Aguila, even when firing without failure, I could hear a difference with some. Like maybe some rounds didn't have as much oomph as others. Makes me wonder if this could occasionally impact the cocking of the trigger fully?
In summary, I could kick myself in the arse for not getting one sooner. I live on 20 acres but rarely shot on my property as some of my inside dogs would freak out, as well as my horses. Well today, no dog issues and my horses were grazing 200 yards away in the next pasture and totally ignored me. Folks, sell off something or do whatever you have to do and purchase you a suppressor. You will not regret it one tiny bit.
Shooting from the back of my Gator.
Horses calm as can be.
I went down to my new shooting range I'm building in my bottom pasture and shot 100 rounds each of CCI subsonic, CCI standard velocity and Aguila 40 gr SuperExtra standard velocity. I shot without any hearing protection. My first impression was, dang, this bolt assembly sure makes a lot of noise when it cycles. Second impression was dang, that 22 bullet is loud when it hits the target. Point being, I just didn't hear any bang at all... not in the least. Granted, my hearing isn't the best in the world, but I just never heard the gun go off. With no bang & no hearing protection, it is amazing what you can now hear.
As far as ammo, for each variety I would shoot a whole magazine nice & slow, one as fast as I could squeeze the trigger and the balance as a mixture of fast & slow. Both CCI functioned flawlessly but the Aguila gave me on average one FTF per magazine. Looking at the round, they had light strikes and I haven't had any light strikes since I installed my CMC trigger. My last magazine of this stuff also failed to stay open after the last round fired and that has never happened to me before. So makes me think something is up with this ammo or at least this batch I have. One reason I say this goes back to what I said earlier, in that you can really hear the bolt cycle. With the CMC, the sound was always uniform. With the Aguila, even when firing without failure, I could hear a difference with some. Like maybe some rounds didn't have as much oomph as others. Makes me wonder if this could occasionally impact the cocking of the trigger fully?
In summary, I could kick myself in the arse for not getting one sooner. I live on 20 acres but rarely shot on my property as some of my inside dogs would freak out, as well as my horses. Well today, no dog issues and my horses were grazing 200 yards away in the next pasture and totally ignored me. Folks, sell off something or do whatever you have to do and purchase you a suppressor. You will not regret it one tiny bit.
Shooting from the back of my Gator.
Horses calm as can be.
) you range results.
