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I did a considerable amount of research before building this rifle.
It has an accurate 16" heavy Shilen barrel. SSK Industries chambered it for 300 Whisper, and they made the suppressor. The 300
Whisper cartridge was developed by SSK for use in the AR-15. This is the ultimate caliber to use, if you plan to shoot with a suppressor. The round
functions perfectly in an AR-15, and the large 220 gr. bullet gives the maximum punch without breaking the sound barrier. |
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I built this rifle from a T/C Contender handgun, and it now has some advantages over the suppressed AR-15. It also has a heavy 16" Shilen barrel, and it delivers MOA accuracy with no problem at all. It's more quiet than the AR-15, because there's no sound from a cycling action. The Contender is a real lightweight, and it's much shorter. It also has a crisp 10 ounce (single stage) trigger, and a custom 8X Leupold scope (with a target turret) for precise elevation adjustments. The custom scope mount has 20 MOA built in to provide enough scope adjustment to reach 300 yards. It's a great feature to use the same silencer on different rifles. I can also use the same reloading dies and of course the bipod. |
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I adapted this Ruger 10-22 to use the same suppressor that I use
on .30 caliber rifles, and it works pretty well. It doesn't feel anything like a .22 rimfire rifle anymore. In fact, its balance now
feels more like your shooting an M1 Garand. This rifle is extremely quiet with subsonic loads. However, the suppressor causes enough back
pressure (during rapid fire) to quickly foul the chamber. That leads to occasional jamming with every brand of ammo I've ever tried. If I could afford
to do this rimfire project over, I would fit this silencer on a bolt action rifle. One of these days, I might solve this problem by devising a way to lock the bolt.
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