SWR Spectre....

by JD, Western Washington, Friday, May 03, 2013, 16:53 (4167 days ago) @ Gila Jorge

The Spectre is very well built and can actually handle everything up to and including the 22 Hornet and FN 5.7 x 28. Realistically though only subsonic ammo is really quiet. Once you go past the speed of sound, the bullet itself makes a lot of noise. In a Ruger 22/45 barrel length anything other than hyper-velocity ammo will be subsonic. In a 22 rifle, you have to stick to subsonic and standard velocity ammo to be quiet. I don't know how it would be trying to silence the 22 mag... Like I said, the sonic crack of the bullet itself makes a lot of noise.

I like the all stainless construction as it is impervious to almost all cleaning chemicals, whereas with titanium you have to be careful what chemicals you use. 22 cans pick up a lot of lead and crud, and many shooters use venigar and hydrogen peroxide mix to clean them out (called "The Dip"), but that's a no no for titanium...

SWR has a great reputation for quality and customer service, and now they make the Spectre II which is even better than my orginal Spectre...

For lots of good info, take a look here:
http://www.silencertalk.com/forum/index.php?sid=a28780cce5db4f6113cde8ef880ccb72

JD