.22 pistol host recommendations

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Huddy

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I finally got to play with my new El Camino and love it. Now the only way I can imagine more fun is a pistol host. Ruger, S&W, or Sig? I have a general distaste for the entirety of the Ruger Mark whatevers ...only bc I find them aesthetically atrocious...but if they are hands down the best option, I can be swayed. Which do you have/would have, and why?
 
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Got a ruger mkiii lite... factory threaded and a great host.

But the guys at the gun club all love their Taurus semiauto .22's. Not sure of the actual name... but the have 15 round mags which can make a big difference in a match.
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This thing?
 

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I finally got to play with my new El Camino and love it. Now the only way I can imagine more fun is a pistol host. Ruger, S&W, or Sig? I have a general distaste for the entirety of the Ruger Mark whatevers ...only bc I find them aesthetically atrocious...but if they are hands down the best option, I can be swayed. Which do you have/would have, and why?

I went from a couple of Walther P22’s that we just plain wore the springs out to the Ruger MKIV.
The Walther’s were much quieter than the Ruger using the same supressors.
 
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I doubt anything will cycle quiets other than a bolt gun.
Standard velocity is subsonic in 16 inch barrels, and high velocity is subsonic in my Walther P22’s and Ruger 22/45.
I have a lot of .22lr rifles and pistols and the only semiauto I’ve found to run cci quiets and the aguila subsonics reliably is the old Remington 550-1 tube fed. Same rifle does ok (about 90%) with Aguila sss 60gr also, which is far better than any other .22lr semiauto I’ve tried.
 

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I doubt anything will cycle quiets other than a bolt gun.
Standard velocity is subsonic in 16 inch barrels, and high velocity is subsonic in my Walther P22’s and Ruger 22/45.

Same here... bulk pack (not auto match) has a super sonic crack out of the 16" 10/22. Bulk pack did not out of my pistols.

Automatch is quiet of of the 10/22.