I’ll let you in on a secret: there is no single best rimfire suppressor. The right one depends on what you are trying to accomplish. The quietest, lightest setup is a different goal than the most accurate suppressed rifle, and each goal points to a different piece of hardware.

Decide the goal first and the choice gets simple. You wouldn’t search Google for “best automobile”, because that mixes vans, cars, and trucks built for different jobs. A rimfire suppressor works the same way.

This guide sorts the decision by intent, then points each intent at the setup that fits it.

What is the best rimfire suppressor?

The best rimfire suppressor is the one that matches your goal, not a single model that wins every category. A shooter who wants one suppressor for a whole safe of .22s has a different answer than a shooter building one tack-driving Ruger 10/22.

Start with the job, not the product, and the field narrows itself in one step.

What are you actually trying to accomplish?

Four goals cover almost every rimfire buyer, and each one leads somewhere different:

• Quietest: you want the lowest sound signature.
• Lightest: the least weight added to the gun.
• One suppressor for many guns and calibers: you want to thread the same unit onto your pistol and rifle, and perhaps across multiple rimfire calibers (.22 LR, .22 WMR).
• The most accurate: you want a precision rimfire, and quiet is part of the build.
• Full-auto rated: you are running sustained fire and need a rated unit.

Those are not shades of the same choice. They are different roads, and two of them run through very different Angstadt hardware.

If you want the quietest and lightest, what should you get?

Quietest and lightest are usually a tradeoff. Most quiet .22 suppressors are larger and heavier, and most ultralight suppressors are louder. The Reticent 22 doesn’t make you trade one for the other.

The Reticent 22 is a full-size .22 suppressor that weighs 2.5 ounces in Grade 5 titanium, and it threads onto any 1/2×28 rimfire, so one unit moves across every .22 you own. That answers the quietest-and-lightest goal and the one-suppressor-for-many-guns goal at the same time.

On sound, the Reticent 22 recorded a lowest shot of 113.4 dB and a five-shot average of 115 dB on a Ruger Precision Rimfire, measured on a Larson Davis meter under Mil-Std-1474D. For independent context, the 2026 Suppressor Summit tested 18 different .22LR suppressors and recorded averages from 116.3 to 136.4 dBA, with the quietest sitting near 116 dBA. Those figures come from the Summit’s own protocol, which is not identical to our bolt-gun test, so read them as a benchmark for where quiet .22LR suppressors land rather than a direct head-to-head. On weight, that same tested field ran from 2.5 to 11 ounces, and the Reticent 22 at 2.5 ounces sits at the light end of it.

Full-size sound out of a unit that weighs less than most mini suppressors is the whole reason the Reticent 22 exists.

If you want the most accurate rimfire possible, what should you get?

The Vanquish 22 is not a suppressor you add to a rifle, it is an integrally suppressed barrel that replaces your factory Ruger barrel (10/22 or Ruger Precision Rimfire) and turns the rifle into a precision, quiet system in one drop-in part. The barrel is a button-rifled 416R stainless bull profile with a Bentz match chamber, and it ports standard .22LR down to subsonic on its way out.

The design runs zero baffles, so there is no baffle stack to get dirty and no baffle strike risk, and the match chamber and barrel are what drive the accuracy gain. This is the road for a shooter whose goal is an absolute tack driver, where quiet is one feature of a precision build rather than the entire point.

The Vanquish 22 makes the rifle more accurate and quiet at the same time, which a traditional screw-on suppressor cannot do on its own.

Some manufacturers claim their suppressors improve accuracy. Usually they mean the added weight or an included muzzle brake reduces recoil, which helps you shoot better, so groups tighten. A .22 LR has almost no recoil, so a thread-on suppressor cannot improve accuracy that way. At best, a .22 suppressor does not degrade the accuracy your rifle already has.

The Vanquish 22 is the only fully rifled .22 LR suppressor, and the only one that actually improves accuracy rather than just preserving it.

Suppressor or suppressed barrel: which is right for you?

This is the fork most rimfire buyer’s guides skip. A suppressor is a unit you thread onto a threaded muzzle, and its strength is portability: one Reticent 22 quiets every 1/2×28 rimfire in the safe. A suppressed barrel is a single-gun system: the Vanquish 22 lives on one rifle and turns it into its best version.

If versatility across guns matters most, the removable suppressor wins. If one rifle becoming a precision platform matters most, the barrel wins.

Pick the axis that matters to you, portability or a single perfected rifle, and the two answers separate cleanly.

Reticent 22 vs Vanquish 22 at a glance

What are the tradeoffs?

The Vanquish 22 locks you to one rifle and will not move to another gun, because the suppressor is the barrel. The Reticent 22 depends on the accuracy your rifle already has, so it makes the rifle quieter and lighter to shoot, but it does not tighten a group the host cannot already hold.

That gives you a clean rule. Want an absolute tack driver, go with the Vanquish 22. Want the absolute quietest and lightest suppressor that follows you from gun to gun, go with the Reticent 22.

Neither tradeoff is a flaw, it is the direct result of what each one is built to do.

So which rimfire suppressor should you buy?

Answer the goal and the hardware is already chosen. Quietest and lightest, or one suppressor for the whole safe, is the Reticent 22. The most accurate rimfire you can build is the Vanquish 22.

Both are NFA items, so the path is the same either way: a Form 4, the wait, then pickup. If you are new to that process, start with our walkthrough of the eForm 4 process and timeline, and if you are deciding how to file, our guide to an NFA trust versus individual registration.

How about both?

Take this with a grain of salt because we make and sell suppressors, but most suppressor owners end up owning more than one, often within the same caliber. Plenty of our customers keep a dedicated Ruger Precision Rimfire or 10/22 with a Vanquish 22 barrel installed, and also own a Reticent 22 for their .22 LR pistol and the other .22 LR rifles they have accumulated over the years. At $535 for the Vanquish 22 and $345 for the Reticent 22, the pair still comes in under the price of many larger rifle-caliber suppressors.

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