"Quiet" ammo.

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I have not noticed any mention of them on this forum, but has anyone else tried the CCI "Quiet .22LR" ammo? The earlier version had 40 gr. bullets and velocity of about 710 fps. That's OK by me, to use in a .22 revolver to get squirrels. I got low of stock in them and asked my LGS to get me a couple more bricks. What he got instead was CCI "Quiet-22 Semi-Auto", which is .22LR with 45 gr. bullets and with 835 fps. For a revolver I thought what the hey, it'll work. That was last February. Then the virus took over our lives and things got pretty boring. Then yesterday I wondered how well that ammo would work in my 10/22, instead. Works absolutely fine. Cycled all ten shots with no hiccups. And much quieter than standard velocity .22's. Just another alternate load to use, which works.
 
I tried subsonic 22LR years ago. It’s just so anemic. Honestly there are air rifles that will just about match it.
 
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Yeah, ok.. but how quiet are you looking for? I wouldn’t call an air rifle loud even a little bit!

I don’t get the point of wanting absolute silence?? Especially at the cost of power. But then, I’m not a suppressor guy because I think of them as nonsensical. I don’t think of myself living on the set of “Patriot Games“.
 
I've used CCI Quiet for a while now in lever and bolt action rifles. Revolvers also. It won't operate in any of the semi-automatics I own, rifle or pistol. I doubt even the semi-auto Quiet at 800 FPS will operate any of the handguns. I've found that I need 1200 FPS or better to work at all times in everything .22. I'm glad for the heads up, though. I'll try some if it becomes available.
 
I was using the Aquila SSS in my 10/22. It's a 60gr bullet loaded in a 22 short case and is the same length as a 22 LR. To my surprise it cycled my 10/22 very reliably and the bullets were stabilized despite their length. The icing on the cake is they group very well right at the lower point in the duplex of my scopes reticle at 50 yards.

The quietest 22 I have (short of a suppressed 22) was CCI CB longs in my old Winchester 67 with a ~27 inch barrel. The firing pin hitting the case was the loudest part of shooting it. Deadly on chipmunks.
 
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I have quite a bit of stock in the Quiet, Quiet Segmented and the newer Quiet semi-auto. I like them all. I have a .25 caliber air rifle that sends a 25 grain lead pellet at 670 FPS, the Quiet does it with a larger grain projectile and the segmented version really puts the wallop on vermin with less racket and more accuracy than the air rifle contraption. The semi-auto Quiet cycles my 1022 fine and my Mk IV pistol. All of them are exceedingly, well, Quiet and while not match grade offer decent accuracy at less than 50 yards and are optimal at about 25 yards.
 
David Hoback said:
Yeah, ok.. but how quiet are you looking for? I wouldn’t call an air rifle loud even a little bit!

I don’t get the point of wanting absolute silence?? Especially at the cost of power. But then, I’m not a suppressor guy because I think of them as nonsensical. I don’t think of myself living on the set of “Patriot Games“.
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20fpe airguns are fairly loud, if I touch off my qb78 without it's shroud on it all the neighborhood animals start making noise, and my neighbors look over. Touch off my .357 bulldog sans mod and everyone looks over. LoL

The guy I got the bully from actually sold it because a .22lr is quieter, and what he was doing with it the .357 wasn't any more effective.

If I could own a firearm suppressor I would, there's plenty of places I'm welcome to hunt as long as I don't disturb the farm animals, other landowners, or neighbors.
There's often times I also need to off a trapped pig in the middle of a neighborhood, and a soft thump(what the airguns for) beats the squealing and fighting to knife em, or smack em in the head with a hammer.

From a rifle I've found cci quiets to be quieter than most other ammo besides colibri or cb caps , but anything I can shoot with them I can shoot with an airgun.
From a revolver it might make a difference.....I'll have to borrow my buddies RR and try it.
 
Aguila Super Colibri out of either of my bolt 22 rifles is about as quiet as you'll find. Out of a revolver, it's quit a bit noisier, but still much quieter than SV 22LR.
 
David Hoback said:
Yeah, ok.. but how quiet are you looking for? I wouldn’t call an air rifle loud even a little bit!

I don’t get the point of wanting absolute silence?? Especially at the cost of power. But then, I’m not a suppressor guy because I think of them as nonsensical. I don’t think of myself living on the set of “Patriot Games“.
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Well, while they may be nonsensical to you, the rest of the world, including Europe, sees them as a way to reduce the noise of a shot and the hearing damage that can be associated with that. It's got little to do with thinking one is an operator and more to do with management of noise. At least for most people. There is absolutely a portion of the gun world who thinks having a suppressor makes them high speed. To each their own. I like them because, even shooting full power loads, the report of the rifle is greatly reduced. To the point where if I forget to put my ears back on and someone shoots, I'm not worse for it.
 
I have killed a lot of critters w CB. 29 gr bullet at 725 ish fps. Max D was 25 yards.

Some guns shoot em well, some dont
Same for the " quiet " stuff.

However, the quiet is reg long rifle length, so magazines work well.
My 1022 became a straight pull bolt action using them.

Too bad it didnt shoot them, or anything else, worth a hoot

Used to pop pest fox squirrels out of town in a fancy 10 home wooded addition.
Fields beyond. CB from the garage worked.

And any misses went out into the big field.

Safe.

We shot em from rhe picnic table too.

But either way.......it was polite to the neighbors.

Dang things chewed a hole in the garage door and one died in a roof vent pipe. So we thinned em down a little.

Lung shoot em like deer.
Theyd run along the branch and fall off dead.


No assassin or video game nonsense. Just polite pest control.

And no ear damage
 
That’s fair. But I’m back to the air rifle for a fraction of the cost, and similar noise level. So once again I ask WHY does it need to be even more super, tacticool ninja quiet than an air rifle? LOL!

And while I agree yes, it is a bit more. But only slightly more than a 22cal air rifle that can send close to 30gr pellets at almost 1000fps.
 
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I got some by accident, was buying CCI SV at Wal-Mart and the employee accidently grabbed a couple boxes of Quiet. Its fine, but obviously my point of impact shifted big time. It just chills in my 22 ammo can now, a coworker said he'd take it though so I'll probably give it to him.
 
I was just shooting some from a Ruger 22/45 this weekend....very accurate, smaller group for me than CCI Standard or Gemma subsonic. But it makes the 22/45 a single shot. And doesn't work in any semi-auto rifle I own. I consider them a revolver load only and won't buy any more; just don't shoot enough 22 revolver.
 
David Hoback said:
That’s fair. But I’m back to the air rifle for a fraction of the cost, and similar noise level. So once again I ask WHY does it need to be even more super, tacticool ninja quiet than an air rifle? LOL!

And while I agree yes, it is a bit more. But only slightly more than a 22cal air rifle that can send close to 30gr pellets at almost 1000fps.
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Because the CCI Quiet are much quieter than most air rifles. And hit a good deal harder not due to velocity being more, it is not, but the larger bullet and the segmented in particular, really hit hard compared to an air rifle (which again, I have found to make more noise and be much less accurate).
 
I don't consider the "quiet 22" very quiet. It's ok but still has a pop. The super colibri is very quiet but out of about 15 rifles I only found one that shoots them well and I suspect it's because the bore is worn near smooth. So I use that sometimes. My favorite quiet plonker is a winchester model 250 (redheaded step child of the winchester lever action family) with CB shorts, a little pop but they are accurate enough for my uses. Air guns aren't for me, too much tinkering around pumping or cocking or filling tanks for what you get. I have a daisy for my kids when they get a little older and that's as far as I'm taking it with air guns.
 
Tried the M22 Subsonic in a suppressed 10/22......so quiet the most notable sound was that of the action cycling.


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ya have been hanging out with the wrong air rifles :p
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PCPs aside, really, I do not think so. Show me an airgun, break barrel specifically, that can put the pellets in near about the same hole at 25 yards and has equal power. Oh, and weighs the same as a .22 and is semi-auto and does not cost several times more than a 1022 which can be had under $250.

Which one is the 7mm Remington Magnum and which one is an air rifle that troubles itself to make 700 FPS with a measly 25 grain pellet that for which a tin of cost as much or more than several boxes of CCI Quiet? Oh, and which one cost more?

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To paraphrase Shania Twain "they don't impress me much." And they don't. CCI Quiets are a novelty to me, like CB shorts. Giggle factor is high, accuracy and killing power, not so much. Shot a lot of them messing around, fun to lob them 100 yards at a gong and listen to the "tink!" they make. I'd not want to shoot any critters with them though. Maybe its just me but seems like they'd have trouble past 10 or 15 yards.

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