Thread: What to do? Suppressing 22 Hornet

I've kinda made my mind up about this baring someone sitting on me, but interested in other's thoughts anyway.

I have had for 3 yrs now a Savage Sporter 23D .22 Hornet, an excellent shooter with an excellent barrel, but, a series of previous owners have had a go at drilling and tapping the receiver for scope mounts, top, front, back, sides. You name it. To the point it looks like a colander. So not really collectable. Some holes were blanked off with screws, some not. I cleaned it up some with a file to dress screws in unwanted holes down flush, removed some that were munted and took it to my Gunsmith. Did I say none of the holes lined up? He took one hole that could be used and drilled and tapped three more to take Weaver style bases for and aft and fitted those. $85. With a set of rings and an old Loopy fixed x4 scope it became my goto rabbit & hare rifle with PPU factory ammo - best shot on a hare just on 150m on the RF, leaning on a strainer post, connecting thru the kidneys aiming for the head. Blamed the crosswind. Head and neck shots at 90-100m no sweat. Reloading for it now and it shoots very tight indeed.

Then a few months back, along came a rare beast, a 1963 BRNO .22 Hornet in almost unused condition. Too nice a rifle and paid too much to want to remove front sight and thread, or heaven forbid, relocate the sight. Was going to sell the Savage but havn't been able to bring myself to move it on. Sticky fingers aye!

Anyway, I've decided to have DPT thread and supply a suppressor for the Savage. I also want my Zastava 243 done and plan to use the same suppressor between them. 6mm should be fine on the .22 Hornet. I'll take DPTs advice on thread but probably 14:1mm

So, two questions. Do I chop the Savage barrel from its original 24 in? Its a paddock rifle rather than for Bush or hills.

Second, are there other suppressor options I should consider?

Cheers