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Mike S wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 12:19 am I asked the folks at Capitol Armory if there would be an issue shooting.22 LR out of a 9mm can. The response was that it would be okay to shoot a little bit of .22 LR out of it, but because most .22 LR is lead (ie, not copper jacketed) that shooting extensive amounts would eventually cause lead deposits to fill up the insides & ruin it. ((The suppressor in question has an end cap that can be changed, but it can't be disassembled to clean the baffles & housing)).

The BLUF as I recall was damage from lead fouling was not likely to occur with just hundreds of rounds; it was more like if you use a 9mm can that you can't disassemble (to clean the baffles) as a dedicated .22 suppressor for tens of thousands of rounds, or something like that.

The Rugged Obsidian suppressors can be disassembled right down to their individual component parts for cleaning, including the individual baffles. My main recommendation if doing so is to wear protective mechanics gloves when taking apart and reassembling the baffle-stack. The baffles are made from Inconel, and the edges of the "bell" on each baffle are quite sharp…which I guess is necessary for a baffle-to-baffle tight fit. But I have nicked myself more than once handling them without gloves on.

FastCarry wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 4:20 pm Yes you can. The manufacturer will usually list caliber ratings. My Rugged Obsidian 9 gets used with 9mm, .22 and 300blk sub.

I bought the Rugged Obsidian 45, but I mostly use it on 9mm pistols…as well as on my 9mm Ruger PC9 carbine. I haven’t tried it on a .22 before, but I have used my .30 cal rifle can on a 5.56 carbine with a CMMG .22 LR conversion kit installed, and it suppressed the .22 just fine. In fact, it was stupid quiet. All of my .22 LR chambered firearms came without threaded barrels, so I never bothered to buy a dedicated .22 can.

I’ve never had the money or wanted the ATF hassles to collect lots of cans to fit each of the calibers I have. It just always made more sense to me to have one pistol can that fits all of my pistol calibers, and a rifle can to fit all of my rifle calibers.

One of the great things about the Rugged Obsidian 45 is that Rugged will sell you accessories like a direct thread mount or a 9mm endcap for your 45 suppressor. I bought both accessories, but bought the endcap first. When I mounted the can with the 9mm endcap on the end of a 9mm Sub2K carbine using a fixed barrel spacer spacer that I also bought from them, I had a bullet strike on the endcap which ruined it. I never had that kind of difficulty with the PC9 carbine, but by then I had already destroyed the 9mm endcap and had bought the direct thread mount. Someday I’ll buy another one, but at $65.00, I can wait to get another one later when the .45 endcap works just fine for now.