Silencer Central & Banish 22, a review of both.

[BrianK]

Did my research and the Banish 22 was the can I wanted even though I have an NFA retailer <10 miles away. The retailer would have been quicker to get a can into my hot little hands. But I want what I want and not necessarily what is on a shelf locally. I wanted great attenuation, and light weight so to me that required titanium. The Banish 22 has all of that and not that I need it, is full auto rated and will do smaller .22 centerfire rounds (.22 Hornet is specifically mentioned).

SC=Silencer Central     CS=customer service

The process SC has in place is painless and easy and the folks there are patient and helpful. I tried to fill out the paperwork but for some reason was unsuccessful, plus I was having multiple computer issues and I was limping along waiting on a solution for my troubles to show up. But I called SC and their CS filled out the paperwork for me, me supplying answers. I already had a digital passport photo and e-prints that helped. It took time for the process and paperwork to move through SC. They check it before moving it on; makes sense. The wait for ATF approval is never fast enough and I put the can in a trust and that slowed things down a bit. But in 54 days I had it in my hands. That was much faster than every hardcopy I ever waited for; they averaged 6 months. Before putting bullets through it I wanted to open it up and check out the assembly and put Ceramic Shield in it for (hopefully) easier cleaning. Armstrong assembled it and even with 2 strap wrenches I couldn't remove the end caps. So I sent it back to SC for warranty work. 3 weeks later I had it back in my hands. I hope I got it through to SC that to ship it the end caps don't need to be so torqued down. The warranty work was 100% preventable.

The can is 100% Ti. The innards were beautiful but it wasn't going to stay beautiful for long. The can is (by ruler) 1" D x 5 3/8" long and weighs 4.4ozs. If memory serves it comes in 4 colors, mine is in black. It's shipped in 2 cartons and is packed in foam. The packaging  could be nuked and survive, so it'll survive the gorillas at UPS and mine did.  It also comes with a red anodized disassembly/reassembly tool for the outer end cap. The end cap that has the barrel thread doesn't require a tool. The baffels have lines engraved on them to assemble them correctly; just line up the lines. The baffles can be assembled w/o lining them up so I assume it's not super critical. Some day I'll deliberately misalign them.

I put some Ceramic Shield in it and moved it to allow it to run through the baffle stack. A short pause it what is suggested but I gave it overnight. Next day were the first shots. I never intend to use supersonic ammo through it so I didn't test that. I know what supersonic crack sounds like. I used various subsonic match grade rounds, and ammo with "subsonic" and "suppressor" written on the boxes. Some I've previously fired for precision and they sucked. But I was just firing for sound that day.  I used my KIDD in the 16" 6# configuration and various handguns and SBRs. I wasn't surprised at the action noise of the semis, and the quiet of a Contender. It's a pretty quiet can.

Next day I sighted in the KIDD. I had taken off a Nikon Prostaff scope that was adjusted for parallax at 100 yards and bought and mounted a Burris that has 50 yard parallax. One of the cans I used previously was a Dead Air Ghost. It can handle .45 ACP and .300BLK so it's bigger and heavier than needed for .22. The Ghost opened up groups on the KIDD slightly and larger groups is not why I bought a KIDD. The new Banish 22 is smaller and lighter and my hope was that it wouldn't make the groups larger. Next day I sighted it in and fired some quick groups and saw that it kept the tiny groups. But I need to shoot some serious groups before I quote figures. Ideally it will shrink groups. I have a .22 centerfire can that has that effect on some of the rifles it gets used on.

So oberall I'm happy with SC and the Banish 22. It sorta bummed me out about the warranty work but I got the full tour of SC. Would I do business with them again? If my LGS has what I want I'll do business there first unless they're unacceptably high priced (they're not the low or even mid-priced outfit). But SC was a pleasant experience, and I like the Banish 22, so yes, I'd do business with them again.

I like to keep padding on everything in the safe. I buy good stuff and don't want dents and dings. The can doesn't come with a sack or anything like that, and I'm not going to keep the packaging carton in the safe, it takes up too much room. So I spent time on Amazon and found a suitably sized flashlight holster that works fine. It also has an elastic "tube" on the side, maybe for a spare cell, and is stretchy enough to hold the assembly tool.

[shooterrex]

I just picked up an AB suppressors Little Bird. Basically the size of a cigar.  Does a great job even on my 22 pistols. 1st round pop is a little loud but after that sounds like a pellet gun. Haven't tried supersonic ammo yet. My local gunshop ordered it in and that took about 10 days to get to them. The form 4 to me took 6 days. All aluminum. The baffles are threaded in and it comes w/a tool to take it all apart except for the 1/2 X28 end. Happy so far with my purchase.

[shooterrex]

Just tried it on my 10/22. Standard barrel. The action makes as much noise as the suppressed shots. This is w/CCI Standard velocity ammo which is supposed to be 1070 fps. There is almost no 1st round pop with the rifle.

Edited 5 hours ago by shooterrex

[shooterrex]

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