CCI quiets

daleraby said:

Has anyone tried adapting CCI Quiet 22 to an autoloader? I've got an old Colt pre-Woodsman. It feeds and fires the Quiets just fine, but I have to manually cycle the slide. My thoughts were to get a new recoil spring and progressively cut coils off of it until I reach a point where the Quiets will cycle properly, then cut one more coil off to make certain.

Any reason I should not do this... other than that I might forget which spring is in the gun?

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When ammo supplies come back to normal, perhaps try the semi-auto version of CCI's Quiet ammo in your Colt?
https://www.cci-ammunition.com/rimfire/cci/quiet-22_semi-auto/6-975CC.html

daleraby said:

Has anyone tried adapting CCI Quiet 22 to an autoloader? I've got an old Colt pre-Woodsman. It feeds and fires the Quiets just fine, but I have to manually cycle the slide. My thoughts were to get a new recoil spring and progressively cut coils off of it until I reach a point where the Quiets will cycle properly, then cut one more coil off to make certain.

Any reason I should not do this... other than that I might forget which spring is in the gun?

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When these hit I tried a box out of curiosity. In my Auto load pistols they do work great. They do not push the slide far enough to do anything, so can just manually cycle through. They are shockingly accurate too. So I have to "guess" you could lighten the recoil spring enough to allow them to blow the action back. Now after you got the spring that weak not sure if it would have enough left to reliably strip off a new round. Could not hurt to try as long as you make DAMN sure you don't put a "normal" round in there with that spring cut back that much. Since most of these are blow back actions we all know what would happen. My best "guess" is to make this idea really work you would need to lighten the bolt to get this to work well. Since the way the blow back works is both recoil spring and weight of the bolt. Again if someone does they would have to be realy careful to not forget and put HV ammo in the pistol before they swapped back.

O.K. I've shot about 250 of my first carton. Quiet, yes. Almost don't need muffs but at 76 I tend to try to save what is left of my hearing after 65 years of shooting. Effectiveness, one groundhog, three coons, and two rabbits dead with one headshot each. You don't like em, send em to me. I love those things.

PapaG said:

O.K. I've shot about 250 of my first carton. Quiet, yes. Almost don't need muffs but at 76 I tend to try to save what is left of my hearing after 65 years of shooting. Effectiveness, one groundhog, three coons, and two rabbits dead with one headshot each. You don't like em, send em to me. I love those things.

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When I tried them just out of curiosity I was thinking this is where they would shine. People who wanted to used them for "pests", where is was legal to shoot them but they did not want to make a lot of noise, and did not want to jump through the hoops and pay for a suppressor. I had the range to myself the day I was playing with them so I took my muffs off and plugs out to see how they sounded. Indoors it was like the better cap guns we had as a kid. Outside they would be easy on the ears and neighbors. Not to mention I was shocked at how accurate they were in the two pistols I had with me. I was just playing and they were making some amazingly tight groups. Don't know why but those two pistols really loved them.