Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Rimfires Does a suppressor effect accuracy?

Wow. I didn't expect this thread to go on so long or create any nasty arguments. I just asked what I thought was a simple question about suppressors. I want my 10/22 to be as accurate as posible and hope to be able to shoot quite a bit smaller than 1" groups at 50 yds when I get through working on it. I have a barrel on the way and will probably order a trigger and stock next week. I don't have a supressor yet, I haven't talked to a gunsmith about threading the barrel or applied for the supressor permit. I've killed a lot of hogs with deer rifles but I want a silenced .22lr to hunt hogs at night at deer feeders. I plan to sit in a tripod about 50 yards downwind of the feeder with a scope mounted varmit light and try to pick of the hogs on the outer edges of the group one at a time. I hope a silenced 22lr is quiet enough not to scare the rest of the hogs off. The hogs where I hunt run around in groups of 5 to 20. When they come to a feeder they make a lot of racket all by themselves crunching corn and fighting each other. I don't think they'll pay any attention to a hog laying on the ground (more corn for them). One time I shot 3 hogs (with a 270 from 100yds) in daylight at the same feeder one after the other. They would run off when I shot one in the head and then they'd come right back a short time later. They didn't pay any attention to the ones laying on the ground. We killed about 40 hogs during this years deer season but we're still covered up with hogs. I'm trying to find a better way to reduce the hog population. Thanks for all the helpful responses.

IMHO

The 300 Whisper with sub-sonic 220 -240 grain sounds like a pop corn fart.

Drop down to 125 grain @ 2400 fps and other than the sonic crack of the bullet it still sounds like a pop corn fart,

- Swifty

they are tough skinned with alot of fat and muscle

we killed about 40 hogs during this years deer season but we're still covered up with hogs.

Wow. I didn't expect this thread to go on so long or create any nasty arguments. I just asked what I thought was a simple question about suppressors. I want my 10/22 to be as accurate as posible and hope to be able to shoot quite a bit smaller than 1" groups at 50 yds when I get through working on it. I have a barrel on the way and will probably order a trigger and stock next week. I don't have a supressor yet, I haven't talked to a gunsmith about threading the barrel or applied for the supressor permit. I've killed a lot of hogs with deer rifles but I want a silenced .22lr to hunt hogs at night at deer feeders. I plan to sit in a tripod about 50 yards downwind of the feeder with a scope mounted varmit light and try to pick of the hogs on the outer edges of the group one at a time. I hope a silenced 22lr is quiet enough not to scare the rest of the hogs off. The hogs where I hunt run around in groups of 5 to 20. When they come to a feeder they make a lot of racket all by themselves crunching corn and fighting each other. I don't think they'll pay any attention to a hog laying on the ground (more corn for them). One time I shot 3 hogs (with a 270 from 100yds) in daylight at the same feeder one after the other. They would run off when I shot one in the head and then they'd come right back a short time later. They didn't pay any attention to the ones laying on the ground. We killed about 40 hogs during this years deer season but we're still covered up with hogs. I'm trying to find a better way to reduce the hog population. Thanks for all the helpful responses.

We killed about 40 hogs during this years deer season but we're still covered up with hogs. I'm trying to find a better way to reduce the hog population. Thanks for all the helpful responses.