Love my Mask. It works very well and is easy to take apart and clean.
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Posts: 17844 | Location: New Mexico | Registered: October 14, 2005
I only have experience with my Silencerco Switchback, my brother has a Silencerco Sparrow.
The Switchback comes apart easily even when dirty, offers several configurations as it is modular. Sparrow is tougher to take apart when dirty. So tough to take apart and clean, my brother hates using it. The Switchback can be a pain to clean, but all .22 cans are from what I have read. He is very 'sensitive' to things, I can't imagine it's any harder to clean the baffles than my Switchback as I believe both use stainless baffles.
Unless you have some very specific requirement Dwill104 has it right. Mask or Oculus. Of the two I happen to favor the Oculus since you can pick a size if you need to. But on a rifle that will likely not matter. you can gain a tiny (and I mean tiny) amount of weight savings by getting a tube that is not steel like Ti (thunderbeast) or Al (several vendors but the one I have is a surefire ryder22). You DO NOT WANT to get anything that has al baffles.
“So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.”
Unless you really enjoy scrubbing buildup off the baffles, definitely stay away from aluminum models. I have a Mack Brothers Tango (now Banish 22) and Tactical Solutions Aeris - both do a great job of making semi-auto handguns firing HV ammo into staple guns. There are quieter models out there, but both of these are light and very easy to clean…something to keep in mind for as dirty as 22’s are!
So far for .22LR, I only have a Mask, but it’s very quiet on my 22/45 Tactical, Beretta Bobcat, and 10/22 Takedown. On my Ruger American Rimfire Target it is “Hollywood” quiet. I normally shoot only subsonic ammo through the Mask.
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Unless you absolutely have to have the lightest can available, the Oculus is hard to beat. All steel so it is easy to maintain, stupid quiet, user serviceable, and modular is a hard combo to beat. It’s just a little heavier than some other rimfire cans.
I absolutely love mine. With subsonics on a bolt action rifle it sounds like an air gun. No significant shift in zero. Easy to clean. It’s by far my favorite can that I either own or have first hand knowledge of.
