I have no experience with it, but I am curious why this is in Class III. Did you post in the right board?

It is one of the few plated subsonics that I have seen. I am looking at using it in a sealed suppressor.

In case anyone is curious, the Armscor subsonics are pretty good. They occasionally make a sonic crack out of a 16.5 inch bbl, but overall are very quiet. The velocities are not quite as constant as CCI, but they are inexpensive, acceptably accurate (minute of pinecone at 65 yds), and most importantly for a sealed suppressor, they are plated. They work well out of my Spectre too. Overall I prefer CCI standard velocity or subsonics, but the Armscor works very well and for $2 a box they are very affordable.

It makes a difference with leading. Some manufacturers warn you not to shoot exposed lead through their suppressors, especially the built in ones that you can't dip or soak in solvent easily.

I'm just saying that there is a lot of lead buildup from all those plated bullets.

I figured as such.



Let me ask this, is leading from .22s even that bad?  Or after how many rounds would one notice?

Yea, .22's lead pretty bad.  Even plated ammo leads as because the plating is so thin that it will wear through from friction in the rifling and even the projectile bases can be exposed as well.  If your sealed can has few rounds throuh it and you have even a small kitchen scale you can try this experiment.  All you need to do is weigh your suppressor now and record the weight in a journal or something similar and then after every 500 or 1000 rounds re-weigh it and record the weight and compare it to your starting weight.  You will find that even after a few thousand rounds the weight difference will be significant...and most of that weight is due to leading.  I'm sure Outbreak can back me up when I saythat the leading is like epoxy and difficult to remove.

And this bad leading is only for suppressors?  Or would my CZ barrel for example, also be leaded like so?

I pull the B-snake every couple hundred rounds or so...at this point, I still see the shiny inside the bore, so I'm not really worried.

I just wanted to know more about leading for the long term.

Yea, .22's lead pretty bad.  Even plated ammo leads as because the plating is so thin that it will wear through from friction in the rifling and even the projectile bases can be exposed as well.  If your sealed can has few rounds throuh it and you have even a small kitchen scale you can try this experiment.  All you need to do is weigh your suppressor now and record the weight in a journal or something similar and then after every 500 or 1000 rounds re-weigh it and record the weight and compare it to your starting weight.  You will find that even after a few thousand rounds the weight difference will be significant...and most of that weight is due to leading.  I'm sure Outbreak can back me up when I saythat the leading is like epoxy and difficult to remove.

^ Yup.