.22LR High/Hyper Velocity through silencer

1shot16

Well lads when i was collecting my .22 rifle 2 weeks ago i was told not to put HV ammo through the silencer(parker hale)

I am now wonder why is that as i know of people that use the parker hale on .17hmr rifles which are much faster that .22lr hv ammo

I was hoping a few shots here and there wouldnt be a problem as if lampin and come across a fox taking off the silencer would be a pain.

Alot of plinking might not be too good i guess...

Federals HV are at 1280fps and Stingers much faster at 1650fps

BTW subs and silencer are unreal quiet really surprised

Mech1

I have used a metal .22 Parker Hale on a .22 hornet. it did a reasonable job and I probably put 400 rounds through it before selling the rifle.

problem was after the first few rounds through it the metal must have deformed slightly so unable to open for cleaning ever again.

1shot16

My silencer came with the gun its old enugh and ids say its sezied up like yours,I wont be able to clean it but sure id does the job anyway wouldnt bother fork out more money just to be able to clean it,

Was looking into the bottom and the first bit looks to not be perfectly circular kind of rounded square shape it it meant to be like that?

cookimonster

I'm not vouching for your particular moderator but I have several models - parker hale, unique (?) and a unknown sealed aluminium one. I have shot all types of solid .22 ammo through them, low, standard, HV and hyper velocity with no ill effects.

One thing I can tell you is that going between LV & HV your going to have a considerable difference in POI. I have up to 7 inches between my LV and HV POI. So you will need to know your hold overs or use a mil dot scope to use both in the field. I tend to stick with LV for hunting and rezero for HV for targets.

Cass

The reasons are simple. It, the moderator, won't work.

It'll suppress the shot a little, but a HV breaks the sound barrier and so the nice quietness of the .22 with subs is gone. My .17hmr has a mod on it, but there is a still a fair crack when i fire because the bullet is supersonic.

The second reason is the mod may not be able for the higher pressures of the HV ammo. So if a failure occurs you have no come back. The chancves of this are slim with the likes of A-Tec, SAK, etc that are designed to be fired with supersonic ammo, but Parker Hale may not be. Always check the mods maximums before using.

Grizzly 45

As Cass said.
As well as the fact that if the can isnt on right or one of the baffles are slightly out of true or alingement a HV round will proably destroy the can completely,whereas a sub will proably mangle the innards and fall out ten feet from the muzzle.
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1shot16

If subs are zeroed at 50 id say stingers are zeroed at 70 mabye???

So a expensive mod would be okay for HV rounds?

garv123

1shot16 wrote: »

If subs are zeroed at 50 id say stingers are zeroed at 70 mabye???

So a expensive mod would be okay for HV rounds?

People use parker hales & saks on hmrs and wmrs without doing any damage.. HV .22 hasnt the same punch as its big brother, the wmr, so you'll do no damage.. But mods can tend to wear out faster with the bigger loads but your still talking about 1000's of rounds.

A sak is also used on all rimfires and are rated up to .22hornet.

Sportsden have parker hales for €40 on sale at the minute too.

cookimonster

1shot16 wrote: »

If subs are zeroed at 50 id say stingers are zeroed at 70 mabye???

You'll have to do the range work, but for my set up zeroed at 50 yards with LV I'll get a 100 yard zero with HV without dialing in the scope.

For illustration purposes only that's,

7 inches high @ 50 yards
5 inches high @ 60 yards
3 inches high @ 70 yards
2 inches high @ 80 yards
1 inches high @ 90 yards
0 inches high @ 100 yards

There's too much potential for errors from either misjudging distance or target size for me to be comfortable with such high values of hold over / under, especially for a standard reticle. Others may disagree but for my set up I zero at 50 for LV and if a fox comes into my comfort zone when out after bunnies I'll burst 'em, in my comfort zone mind you.
Having said all that and if your permisson suits, try the HV zeroed (give yourself a margin of 1- 1.5 inches high and low) and hunt with them. I spent many years using an unmoderated .22 semi that could only cycle HV and still got lots of rabbits. I tended not to use hyper velocity rounds as I did not find them as accurate as HV stuff. Remember even with HV the energy drops like a stone off a cliff after approximately 100 yards and hold over gets higher.
Put rounds down range its the best and most fun way to learn.

1shot16

Thanks for the reply cookimonster ive a mildot scope and playing around with it.

Im using an app called strelok gives me a basic drop chart and apparenlty 3.6 inches at 10 mag at 100 yards is one dot so i needs 6 inches at 100 with subs so just under 2 mil dots shot the target at was bang on handy little app

So if i had it X5 mag at 100 yards id only need a mildot reading into all of this kinda interesting

One shot on kill

I have a with Parker hale mod and a sak mod. I fire everything through them. I preferre the sak just for looks but there both the same other than that.