I love my .22lr suppressor, its so much fun I laugh every time I shoot it! I'm now awaiting for the arrival of another suppressor, AAC 762-SDN-6. Its a .308 suppressor to use on my AR15 and I'm planning on a nice bolt gun as well. It is now legal to hunt in Georgia with a suppressor, for me thats a big deal, I have alot of hearing loss and do not want to lose anymore.
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Wanting to buy a suppressor how?
- Thread starter kmherring911
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Suppressing a .22
Today is a good example of how useful a .22 Suppressor is. I can legally shoot on my property, but I would prefer to keep a low profile. If I am shooting on my property it is either suppressed, or I am way down in the woods. I have 18 acres, but the house is clear to one side of the property, with the closest house about 100 feet away. So most of the property is all away from the houses (if that makes any sense). Picture a triangle with the house at the point of the triangle.
My eyesight isn't what it was when I was 20, so I decided to equip three of my handguns with optics. All of them needed to be drilled and tapped for scope bases. So, I took them to a gunsmith and got the work done. I got the call this morning that they were ready. One of the guns is a S&W 686 and the gunsmith put a gadget on it to roughly get the scope on target (it's called something like a collimeter or something like that). The other two guns are both Ruger .22 autoloading pistols. One got a scope and the other one got a red dot (C-More) By the time I got home, it was late afternoon and spitting a little rain, so I didn't want to drive out to the range. But, I wanted to play with them.
I thought to myself: the .357 should be on paper but I could get the .22s roughly sighted in also, so that when I do go to the range, I can get them zeroed quickly. Both of these Mk.IIs are threaded, so I screwed on a can and went out to my shed. I opened the double doors on the shed and set a bullet trap about 10 feet outside the door. I sat down on the shed floor, leaned back against the lawn tractor tire and got both of the .22s sighted in for about 20-25 feet. Nobody was the wiser. Again, this was safe and legal; I just don't want to advertise the fact that I am a gun owner.
Today is a good example of how useful a .22 Suppressor is. I can legally shoot on my property, but I would prefer to keep a low profile. If I am shooting on my property it is either suppressed, or I am way down in the woods. I have 18 acres, but the house is clear to one side of the property, with the closest house about 100 feet away. So most of the property is all away from the houses (if that makes any sense). Picture a triangle with the house at the point of the triangle.
My eyesight isn't what it was when I was 20, so I decided to equip three of my handguns with optics. All of them needed to be drilled and tapped for scope bases. So, I took them to a gunsmith and got the work done. I got the call this morning that they were ready. One of the guns is a S&W 686 and the gunsmith put a gadget on it to roughly get the scope on target (it's called something like a collimeter or something like that). The other two guns are both Ruger .22 autoloading pistols. One got a scope and the other one got a red dot (C-More) By the time I got home, it was late afternoon and spitting a little rain, so I didn't want to drive out to the range. But, I wanted to play with them.
I thought to myself: the .357 should be on paper but I could get the .22s roughly sighted in also, so that when I do go to the range, I can get them zeroed quickly. Both of these Mk.IIs are threaded, so I screwed on a can and went out to my shed. I opened the double doors on the shed and set a bullet trap about 10 feet outside the door. I sat down on the shed floor, leaned back against the lawn tractor tire and got both of the .22s sighted in for about 20-25 feet. Nobody was the wiser. Again, this was safe and legal; I just don't want to advertise the fact that I am a gun owner.
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Your best bet is to first find the can you want and find a dealer that has it or can get it because you need to have all that figured out before you get the paperwork signed by your sheriff and dealers are always willing to walk you though the process and any local quirks in the process.
Basically, your dealer will fill out a form 4 with their info and the supressor's info, and they you fill in your info and get the form signed by the sheriff for your county. You will also need to get fingerprinted and get passport photos to send in with the form 4. Then, you take everything back to the dealer and they mail it out for you. About 8 months later, your dealer will call you saying the paperwork came back and you can pick up your suppressor.
You can avoid the sheriff and fingerprinting and photos by registering the suppressor to a trust, but you have to set up the trust first which is complicated to do on your own, it cost $200-$600 to have a lawyer set it up for you. My advice is to only use a trust if your sheriff refuses to sign the form, or if you have the time and money to set one up.
If you try to figure out the process by reading about it online, your head will spin. Its much easier to just find a dealer with the can you want and have them walk you through it, its actually very easy it just takes time.
Basically, your dealer will fill out a form 4 with their info and the supressor's info, and they you fill in your info and get the form signed by the sheriff for your county. You will also need to get fingerprinted and get passport photos to send in with the form 4. Then, you take everything back to the dealer and they mail it out for you. About 8 months later, your dealer will call you saying the paperwork came back and you can pick up your suppressor.
You can avoid the sheriff and fingerprinting and photos by registering the suppressor to a trust, but you have to set up the trust first which is complicated to do on your own, it cost $200-$600 to have a lawyer set it up for you. My advice is to only use a trust if your sheriff refuses to sign the form, or if you have the time and money to set one up.
If you try to figure out the process by reading about it online, your head will spin. Its much easier to just find a dealer with the can you want and have them walk you through it, its actually very easy it just takes time.