Integrally Suppressed Smith & Wesson Victory 22: Gemtech MIST 22V 🇺🇸🤫

Welcome back everybody. As you probably guessed from the title and the thumbnail, this is what we are going over here today. This is the Gemtech Mist 22V, V standing for Victory. So what it works with are the Smith & Wesson Victory 22 pistols. This one here is my performance center, there's a full review of it up on the channel. And basically what it does is it takes your standard Smith & Wesson Victory, any of the models, and turns it into an integrally suppressed 22 pistol, which is super fun. So in terms of integrally suppressing it, how do they do that? Well, it's super simple. All they do is replace the barrel. So if you were going to maintain your gun, typical, you know, take it down or whatever on the Victory pistols, it's literally two screws and your barrel comes out and you clean it, typically. In this case, you install this guy here, which is a three inch barrel, so our barrel goes out to right about here. And of course, the suppressor wraps all the way around it, which is what makes it integral. And then out here in the front, we have a monocore, which is covered up by this piece here and is screwed into place by our end cap. So with that, let's head out to the range and see what kind of numbers this thing gets on the meter. So we've got our stand here, 1.6 meters off the ground, I'm on a little bit of a hill back here, which helps me get up, which I dig. And then our meter, which is calibrated, it's one meter off to the left. I realized that in this barrel length, pretty much everything is going to be subsonic, but people always ask to use subsonic ammo, so we're going to try it. I actually don't know if it'll cycle, but the first five rounds here are Gemtech subsonic 42 grains. And then after that, we have some Syntec 22, which is normally conditioned, would be supersonic. So we'll see if it'll cycle. Got a round stuck in the barrel, standby. We knock that round out with a punch, again, you're probably not supposed to be using that with this gun, probably not the gun's fault. But regardless, two more rounds of subsonics, then supers. Now supersonics. All right, now we're going to put the sleeve back on. We're going to go in the same order here with the Gemtech subsonics up first. Guessing by how close they came to cycling, I'm thinking they'll cycle with this sleeve on, but only way to find out, everything else is the same. That last shot must have been a supersonic, so just go with that. I think I racked one out that actually cycled of the Gemtech unknowingly. So that was a supersonic. I accidentally bumped the safety before, it's not a good run for me today. Supersonic that I racked out, finish it up, there you go. I'm not going to do the full install of it, because again, it's very, very simple and if you've ever taken down your gun for maintenance, it's the exact same process, but I do want to show you how this suppressor works. So we do have a quarter inch drive out here at the end. One thing I like about Gemtech silencers, all of them, to my exception, I don't know of any exceptions to this rule, they all have some spot for wrench flats. So my cap here is a little bit messed up because when I was out at the range, I didn't account for the drive and I had to do it with pliers, so don't do that, but I'm sure the engineers at Gemtech just kind of lost their minds when they just watched that part of the video. But our end cap there is going to just screw out, and I want to make sure I don't drop it because we are, of course, standing over a lake on a dock. That is your end cap as you see it. And then from that point, you can just slide that portion forward and you'll see that our barrel there does end right there. And then we have our monocore going forward. You can unthread the monocore as well if you want to. There are wrench flats here on the side. I don't know why you'd ever want to, but if you wanted to, for whatever reason, you can. As you can see, it's got a good bit of fouling in it. We've put a few hundred rounds through it, no cleaning at all, and the only malfunctions that we've had on it so far is from this guy here, and that was just from me dropping the magazine because of our oversized magazine release. So reliability has been very, very good in that respect. And then putting it back on is just as simple as sliding it down, and then it does have that O-ring on there, which is replaceable if you want to. If it ever wears out for whatever reason, Gemtech will get you another one. But that O-ring creates a real nice seal and you can feel the friction at this point as you're putting it on. And it's very snug as you're mounting it from that point forward. And then, again, we're just going to screw our end cap down. And typically, disassembly for silencers really kind of isn't a big deal, but with rimfire, it's more of a big deal than it would be with others simply because, you know, rimfire is dirty and nasty and lead can build up. At this point in the review, you guys have seen the decibel reduction numbers, how the innards of it work, if you will. A few things that we haven't talked about, number one is going to be reliability. It's been 100% reliable as long as this guy was doing my part with various different loads. You guys saw the two loads that we shot, suppressed, obviously, the Gemtech didn't cycle it, but it's not designed to. I did shoot it with some Federal that is designed or rated for, anyway, 1,090 feet per second, 22, and that did cycle it reliably. So no issues there at all. Accuracy is very good. These Victory barrels, which, of course, this one has on the inside as well, are very accurate. I've not seen any reports of anybody having any accuracy issues with any of the Victory pistols so this one is no exception in that regard. In terms of is it Hollywood quiet, well, anybody who has a reference point for those decibel numbers will say that no, it's not Hollywood quiet but it is hearing safe. If you had the dispatch of a pest or something around the house, you could take that shot, not have to worry about hurting your hearing which certainly is a good thing and you couldn't do that if you had an unsuppressed 22, that definitely would damage your hearing so that is a good thing. In terms of weight and all of those specs, size, you guys should see those rolling in here on your screen but I'll tell you just in terms of a balance type of proposition as the shooter, it doesn't feel overly heavy when you present it out when you're on target or anything like that. It does look a little bit long but it doesn't feel that way overall. Obviously, I didn't mention it but it does come with our front sight on there because, of course, your barrel is going to have that front sight on there and it lines up, of course, with any of the rear sights that you have for the different Victory pistols. I know there are several but all of them will align with it and I did check it with some Federal 40 grain standard velocity and it was just a touch high but again, with 22, you're going to have some variance there in the ammo. Now, in terms of cost, you guys are going to see the MSRP here on your screen rolling in and right now, these are just now starting to become available. I'm probably one of the first people out there to have my hands on one and have one in my safe. Of course, when you guys purchase one, you're going to have to pay the $200 tax stamp because the NFA is absurd and unconstitutional and then you're going to have to wait. Depending on where you live, that wait varies dramatically but additionally, in terms of just the cost of the suppressor and the tax stamp, if you don't already have a Victory pistol, you have to purchase one. To my knowledge, they are not selling this as a combined set. It's only as an add-on to the Victory pistol that you already have. In terms of cost, it's not inexpensive in that regard but it is super cool. Is it worth it to you to have this integrated suppress system versus just sticking a standard 22 silencer on your other 22 Rimfire pistol? That's up to you guys. In most cases, this is going to be much quieter with that integrated suppress system though so if that's what you're chasing, then this is definitely something I would look at. If you guys have any questions or anything like that, you can post them down below in the comments section. You can also post them at my various social media sites that you see rolling in here on your screen. I do respond to most comments on most of my social media so you can post them there. Additionally, if this thing goes on sale or anything like that, we have our daily deals email and you can sign up for that at the website here on your screen. If you're already subscribed to the channel, I truly appreciate it. If you're not subscribed and you like this type of video, go ahead and hit the subscribe button but regardless, if you're not seeing two to four videos a week here on the channel, you can sign up for my email at the website. 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