For those that have not the privilege to shoot a suppressed firearm. Some of our readers wanted to know if there is much differences in the actual sound of suppressed versus what you hear in the movies. Posted on 12/21/2016 11:37:04 AM PST by w1n1
For those that have not the privilege to shoot a suppressed firearm. Some of our readers wanted to know if there is much differences in the actual sound of suppressed versus what you hear in the movies.
Mythbusters steps up to the plate to test this out. In this video they lightly touch on-the-how a silencer work to decrease the sound. Eventually, getting into the nitty gritty of testing the sound of unsuppressed vs suppressed. The results are:
For the suppressor owners, you already know its a huge differences. When suppressed its safe to say the sound was from "dangerous to your hearing to safe". As for the suppressed silencer that you hear in the movies, well with a little bit of sound effects, it just makes it sound cooler.
There are other benefits to the silencer gun, such as:
There’s several scenes in the movie From Paris With Love where John Travolta playing the part of some CIA guy uses a silenced automatic - all you hear is just the clacking sound the bolt makes as it moves back and forth - no phfittt sounds just a clacking sound.
Ping
The revolvers don’t. LOLL!
My suppressed cz 75 sounds like a nail gun.
Mythbusters, those 2 clowns are obama ass-kissers
That movie just proves once more that Luc Besson is pro-America. Met him once at a party here and he’s more American than any lib I know of. Even though he’s French.
Looks like their cannonball incident has caused their insurance company to go overboard - what’s with the vests.
Sounds like a sewing machine.
I do not visit that site, but can offer a link to a video of an instructor I have taken classes from using one on a 9mm Sig P228.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kppzw4-ApFM
I have read in one place that part of the NRA’s agenda for the future includes the possibility of removing suppressors from regulation under the National Firearms Act.
I have always thought the level of regulation here on suppressors to be silly. Even in extreme, gun-controlled Europe, one can walk into a shop in most countries and buy a suppressor with no hoops to jump through. They are treated the same as any other unregulated firearm part.
Here in the “free” United States, possession gets you 10 years unless you let the ATF crawl up your rear, wait 6 months, and pay $200 for a tax stamp.
They lost me when they had obama on that show.
Great action scenes although I thought the character that John Travolta played when trying to go through French customs his language was a tad harsh.
Why? Because a bullet is still travelling at over the speed of sound, and you can hear the shockwave of the sonic boom from the pressure wave buildup as the bullet travels beyond Mach 1. That's why with a whip, you hear that distinctive "crack" because the tip of the whip is traveling faster than the speed of sound, creating the pressure wave buildup that causes that distinct sound.
Unless of course you’re using subsonic ammo, which you should be in a suppressor. Then it sounds like an electric typewriter (at least on full auto it does).
You can buy subsonic heavier grain ammo which travels at less than 1100 fps...
None of the sounds in movies are in context with their real sources. Sound Volume for one with gunshots are never done correctly.
They have sound men who make the sounds in their workshops/labs then overdub them into the movie soundtracks.
The original Magnificent 7 is a perfect example. I’ve never heard a gun make that sound.
The same thing with fight scenes. Knuckles don’t make that sound when connecting with someone’s jaw.
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