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New Integrally suppressed barrel for SA-22. Love it

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2.1K views 20 replies 11 participants last post by  Thisisyourcaptin  
#1 ·
Just filled out the paper work on my http://armtacusa.com/index.html integrally suppressed barrel for my Browning SA-22. They claim about 1 week for all the paper work to be drawn up and processed via silencerShop and the ATF. Mean while I fired a small box through it at the shop. The action truly is louder than the shot being fired. Cycled the whole box of Wolf ammo with zero hiccups.

I’ll have more pics of the gun next week as well as a RedField scope mounted to her. Overall barrel length is about 1 inch less than stock.

question for SA-22 owners. Have any of you tried firing 22Short through your 22 LR receivers? I know it won’t cycle. But just wondering if it would still fire. Would be super useful on the chipmunk prob I have in my yard.



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Kaptain, such a nice way of displaying a beautiful stock and weapon.

What can made out of the background on table and case display is enviable.

Excellent taste.

Any chance showing a close up of the boxed piece and
the semi-auto in display case?

Thank you for man eye candy.

Wood is so much happily satisfying to hold than 'plastic-elastic'
encased arms of today.

Best.
 
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Here are a few of the unsuppressed rifle. I’ll grab a few more of the new barrel this Monday. From my understanding it’s a grade 2. Came with the case. I can find no other mention of the case on the internet. Only the current ones made. Not saying it’s rare. Maybe it Is. Just do not know. It was up on Gunbroker a few years listed as a pellet gun and loaded with misspellings. I was the only bidder at 400 bucks. lol. I deff won a great deal. No plans to ever let her go. The only issues with this one is there are a few scuffs on the butt stock. Quite deep too. Like it was dropped off a table or something. I’ll mount the new scope next week and grab a few more pics then. At the same time I will grab a few vids of it being shot and link them on you tube.


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Ran across a well known video of presenter of suppressor information
and was amazed to hear that he, as presumably many, do not clean
their .22s and their suppressors ever or in frequently until failure.

Had to chuckle remembering the old 1960s TV husband saying that
for timing food in oven "... his wife timed by smoke detector."

Many can owners cavalierly announce that they wait to clean when there
is as much noise from the can as if without.

Is it now that only antiquarians who religiously clean their weapons and
cans after each use?

Often remember 1950s ROTC Sergeant instilling the maxim
that a dirty weapon can kill ....you by malfunctioning in combat.

As opposed like the venerable AK47 that never jammed with loose as a goose parts.
 
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You are not wrong about dirty guns killing you. THANKFULLY, my enemy is chipmunks with this one. If they are armed and shoot back I have bigger worries to ponder, as well all would.

I am anal about keeping my guns clean. Pretty much every range visit is a reason for a full detail stripping of the gun and cleaning back to factory new. It’s a pain, but I do enjoy it most of the time. The SA-22 is not to hard to do this with. Nor the suppressor. I saved for a while to afford this, so it will be cleaned every visit to the range or every 50 or so rounds at home shooting chipmunks.
 
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Speaking only for the Browning I owned in the 80s, and whatever forgotten common .22s ammo was available then...it fed manually out of the magazine, and did not start to cycle.

(EDIT) It fed .22 Short manually out of the magazine. Give it .22LR, and it was fine. But yes, it was reliable with .22S used as a manually operated rifle.

Beautiful little rifle. Detail strip it, and it was amazing how few parts there were. Boy, wish I'd proof read my post better.
 
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Speaking only for the Browning I owned in the 80s, and whatever forgotten common .22s ammo was available then...it fed manually out of the magazine, and did not start to cycle.
This one thankfully cycles quite nice. As long as it is fed super sonic ammo. Thankfully the poring in the barrel makes it subsonic by the end of the barrel and entrance to the suppressor. But it cycled clean. If I use 22 short it would not cycle but would as quite as a Red Ryder BB gun. You just have to manually cycled the action every time.
 
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A little update. Last night I mounted up an old Redfield 1-4 scope. She is a bit on the bulky side and I am considering my vintage Burris 4x fixed power. It has adjustable parallax and is a a sweet little scope and not as bulky.

I used a Talley mount and 1 inch rings. Ran the target out to 45 feet. You can see that the first 3 shots were very low and very right (shooting at the middle target). A few adjustments and it was on elevation and a few more it was spot on. I then ran about 150 rounds through her. She gets real dirty but i understand that is normal for suppressed 22. This little gun is a real tack driver. I shot both super sonic and subs and both are hearing safe. About as loud as a Daisy pump action pellet gun. A real joy to shoot. Next I need to take and bench rest her for actual groups at 50 yards.

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#20 ·
I totally mistyped that sorry. Give them a call and email. He will talk you through the process. http://armtacusa.com/

It’s quite simple. Buy a barrel off gunparts corp and a fore end as well as the little parts needed for the take down mech and send them to Jeb. He will turn them into this. He can also mount a scope base on the barrel as well.