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make subsonic 22 LR?
« on: February 01, 2014, 02:15:42 PM »
How much of the original charge would result in a subsonic load? Or has anyone dumped the factory powder and replaced it with some amount of another powder to make a subsonic load for a 22? What replacement powders, what amount, might be tried? ear
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Re: make subsonic 22 LR?
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2014, 03:22:37 PM »
I don't know, but they make subsonic .22 ammo you know...  In fact that's the easiest .22 ammo to find around here.  ::)
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Re: make subsonic 22 LR?
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2014, 03:27:41 PM »
I don't know, but they make subsonic .22 ammo you know...  In fact that's the easiest .22 ammo to find around here.  ::)

I just buy subsonic.

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Re: make subsonic 22 LR?
« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2014, 03:50:29 PM »
Seems like I've heard now n then of someone messing around w rimfires like this but is seems like a bad idea to me.  A friend once messing around managed to detonate the primer on a 22 lr and the brass flew into his shoulder and needed minor surgery to be removed.  I occasionally will remove a bullet from a LR but the bullet gets pretty distorted and I can't imagine what it would take to re-insert the bullet and recrimp properly to have any accuracy at all. And with additional risk of setting off the priming.


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Re: make subsonic 22 LR?
« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2014, 10:57:08 PM »
The only place that stocks them around here was ridiculous before the price gouge. I am afraid to go look now. The worst that might happen would be a bullet stuck in a bore. ear
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