Suppressor sound tests / .22LR
.22LR suppressor sound tests
2 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.
- Abel Pi
- Abel Pi MK4
- Elite Iron Echo Lite
- Innovative Arms IASW
- TBAC 22 Take Down
The names without links don’t have a page on Baffled yet.
.22LR pistol (Sig P322)2025
27 suppressors were fired on this same pistol, on the same day, with the same ammunition. Fired with no suppressor at all, it measured 148 dB, which is what each reduction below is counted from.
The bar above the list places each of the 27 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 12 dB. It stays on screen as you read, so hovering a row shows where that suppressor falls.
The shaded band is the tightest 2.4 dB stretch of this strip, holding 17 of the 27 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. That is most of the field, so on this pistol sound is not what separates these suppressors. What decides it is whatever else matters to you, like weight, length or price.
- B&T Print-X 22120.2 dB3.8 oz · 5.12"27.8 dB quieter than unsuppressed
- TBAC 22 Take Down Gen 2120.5 dB4.8 oz · 4.8"27.5 dB quieter than unsuppressed
- XCaliber Genesis120.8 dB7.9 oz · 5.5"27.2 dB quieter than unsuppressed
- Hammer Creek Vantage 22121.8 dB2 oz · 5"26.2 dB quieter than unsuppressed
- GDM GDM RFC121.8 dB4.6 oz · 5.63"26.2 dB quieter than unsuppressed
- FCA FX 22-TI122.7 dB4.7 oz · 5.6"25.3 dB quieter than unsuppressed
- GDM GDM 22AL124.1 dB4.2 oz · 5.63"23.9 dB quieter than unsuppressed
- Faxon Firearms TWTOU124.9 dB8 oz · 7.75"23.1 dB quieter than unsuppressed
- Hammer Creek Vantage 22K126.3 dB1.6 oz · 4"21.7 dB quieter than unsuppressed
- APRS Little Dipper130.8 dB6.4 oz · 5.6"17.2 dB quieter than unsuppressed
Products come and go from these events voluntarily. A suppressor missing from this list was not tested, nothing more. Differences smaller than 2.4 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 2.4 dB, the shaded band, and the 148 dB unsuppressed figure are worked out here from those measurements.
Data from the 2025 SILENCER SUMMIT, published by Thunder Beast Arms Corp. See their results