quietest pistol round

[Gordon]

32-20 pistols are loud!! All pistols (non supressed) are loud! A T/C contender with a 10"+ barrel in .22CB is getting there. I have a sTEVENS fAVORITE RIFLE IN .32s&w LONG that with .32S&W shorts is pretty quiet, about like a .22CB in a pistol. The same round in a 4" S&W gives a pretty good pop. I have a couple .22 short semi auto pistols, the ones with a 2" barrel are pretty loud, like a .22lr hi speed in a rifle. The Olympic rapid fire with the 7 .5" barrel is much quieter, but alot louder than a .22cb in a rifle or any pellet gun.

 

[PALEFACE]

just curious, why would noise matter? hmmmm...........i wonder.

 

[BluesBear]

I would not shoot a .22 short out of a .22LR type gun because of the chamber difference.

I have a bolt action Marlin that my Father gave me when I was 12. It was already old then. I don't know how many rounds have been fired from it but there were several years back when I was in my late teens and early twenties that if fired at least 500 rounds each and every week. Most of those were .22 shorts because I can fit 25 of them in the tube magazine.

It sat in the rack for a few years but I started shooting it again a few years ago. It's fired over 10,000 rounds in the past 4 years, I guess about 20% of those were shorts, plus several thousand Aguila .22sss which is a 60gr bullet fired from a .22 short case.

If you'd look at the chamber you wouldn't see any "damage" from shooting the shorter rounds.