Suppressor sound tests / .22LR

.22LR suppressor sound tests

3 tests used this cartridge. Each test is one rifle, one day, one set of ammunition. Results from different tests can’t be compared with each other.

Smaller tests

5 more suppressors were measured with this cartridge. They come from 2 tests with too few suppressors on the gun to be worth comparing: with two or three, finishing first says very little. They are listed here instead. Open a name to see its figures.

The names without links don’t have a page on Baffled yet.

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.22LR pistol (Sig P322)2026

21 suppressors were fired on this same pistol, with the same ammunition. It was not fired without a suppressor in 2026. At the 2025 Summit, the same pistol with the same ammunition and no suppressor measured 148 dB, and each reduction below is counted from that 2025 figure.

The bar above the list places each of the 21 suppressors fired on this pistol by how loud the shot still measured at the shooter's ear. Between the quietest and the loudest there is 14 dB. It stays on screen as you read, so hovering a row shows where that suppressor falls.

The shaded band is the tightest 2.16 dB stretch of this strip, holding 8 of the 21 suppressors tested, which this test cannot tell apart from one another. It is a sample rather than a special group, so sweep the strip and the band follows. No 2.16 dB stretch of this strip holds more of them than that, so the field really is spread out: on this pistol, which suppressor you fit changes how loud the shot is.

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  1. LayerX Suppression RASTER 5K119.4 dB
    14.2 oz · 5.25"See this suppressor →
    28.6 dB quieter than the 2025 unsuppressed baseline
  2. Griffin Armament Checkmate AM119.5 dB
    6.6 oz · 5.25"
    28.5 dB quieter than the 2025 unsuppressed baseline
  3. ECHOCORE Topo 22120.0 dB
    4.2 oz · 5"See this suppressor →
    28.0 dB quieter than the 2025 unsuppressed baseline
  4. Carbon Research CR22120.0 dB
    3.3 oz · 6.5"
    28.0 dB quieter than the 2025 unsuppressed baseline
  5. Wraith Metal Works Raider FNG120.3 dB
    11.1 oz · 5.8"
    27.7 dB quieter than the 2025 unsuppressed baseline

    We don’t have any information on this suppressor beyond Thunder Beast’s test. It may be an older or renamed model.

  6. T&K Suppressors Altus 22121.3 dB
    5.4 oz · 4.87"See this suppressor →
    26.7 dB quieter than the 2025 unsuppressed baseline
  7. Silencer Central VRMT 223K Ti121.4 dB
    8.1 oz · 4.75"See this suppressor →
    26.6 dB quieter than the 2025 unsuppressed baseline
  8. Replicator Acer122.0 dB
    5.1 oz · 5.38"See this suppressor →
    26.0 dB quieter than the 2025 unsuppressed baseline
  9. EOTECH Senator Ti-M Long122.1 dB
    5.9 oz · 7.5"
    25.9 dB quieter than the 2025 unsuppressed baseline
  10. ECCO Machine Caracal122.2 dB
    5 oz · 6.25"See this suppressor →
    25.8 dB quieter than the 2025 unsuppressed baseline
  11. Warsaw Creek Armory Tiro122.3 dB
    7.6 oz · 6.13"
    25.7 dB quieter than the 2025 unsuppressed baseline
  12. FCA Verge Ti122.6 dB
    4.3 oz · 5.25"
    25.4 dB quieter than the 2025 unsuppressed baseline

    We don’t have any information on this suppressor beyond Thunder Beast’s test. It may be an older or renamed model.

  13. BOSS Silencers Napoleon124.0 dB
    3.4 oz · 4.3"
    24.0 dB quieter than the 2025 unsuppressed baseline
  14. Replicator Acer S124.1 dB
    3.9 oz · 4.38"See this suppressor →
    23.9 dB quieter than the 2025 unsuppressed baseline
  15. Q Erector 22 Full124.7 dB
    2.5 oz · 7.6"See this suppressor →
    23.3 dB quieter than the 2025 unsuppressed baseline
  16. Wraith Metal Works Raider FNG125.2 dB
    7.6 oz · 4"
    22.8 dB quieter than the 2025 unsuppressed baseline

    We don’t have any information on this suppressor beyond Thunder Beast’s test. It may be an older or renamed model.

  17. EOTECH Senator Ti M Short126.3 dB
    4.2 oz · 5.45"
    21.7 dB quieter than the 2025 unsuppressed baseline
  18. BOSS Silencers El Jefe127.2 dB
    5.4 oz · 5.13"See this suppressor →
    20.8 dB quieter than the 2025 unsuppressed baseline
  19. FCA Verge K-Ti128.5 dB
    3 oz · 3.6"
    19.5 dB quieter than the 2025 unsuppressed baseline

    We don’t have any information on this suppressor beyond Thunder Beast’s test. It may be an older or renamed model.

  20. W.T.F. Silencers The Marmot129.8 dB
    3.7 oz · 6.5"See this suppressor →
    18.2 dB quieter than the 2025 unsuppressed baseline
  21. Next Level Armament Varmint133.6 dB
    3.5 oz · 6.1"See this suppressor →
    14.4 dB quieter than the 2025 unsuppressed baseline

Products come and go from these events voluntarily. A suppressor missing from this list was not tested, nothing more. Names are shown as Thunder Beast listed them. A name without a link doesn’t have a page on Baffled yet. Differences smaller than 2.16 dB are closer than this test can reliably measure. The results also don’t record which mount or muzzle device each suppressor was fitted with, and that hardware can affect both the reading and the weight and length shown above. Decibels are not a count of anything: as a rule of thumb every 10 dB is roughly a halving of how loud something seems, so the gaps here are larger than they look.

Every row opens to show all three microphones, and it is worth opening. A suppressor can be the quietest here beside the muzzle and middling at the shooter’s ear, so a claim about one says nothing about the other.

Thunder Beast published the decibel figures, the weights and the lengths. The resolution limit of 2.16 dB, the shaded band, and the 148 dB unsuppressed figure are worked out here from those measurements.

The 148 dB unsuppressed figure is from the 2025 SILENCER SUMMIT, published by Thunder Beast Arms Corp. See their 2025 results

Data from the 2026 SILENCER SUMMIT, published by Thunder Beast Arms Corp. See their results