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:
Yeah subsonic works like a hose, in close.
Yeah subsonic works like a hose, in close.
For small calibers, that matches my experience.
Plenty of youtube videos with audio.
I shot a suppressed 9mm submachine gun, and the clacking from the bolt was louder than the cartridges firing.
In Europe IIRC, they are mandatory on hunting rifles.
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Pew,pew,pew,,,,No pew.
NO.
My suppressed .22 firing subsonic is quiet, about like a bb gun.
My suppressed 9MM Uzi is pretty quiet, one does not need hearing protection, but you definitely know a gun is being fired. Even more so with my suppressed MAC10 in F/A mode.
My suppressed .223/5.56 is freakin' LOUD, definitely requires hearing protection. (Not even sure what the point is of suppressing a rifle cartridge.) But it is on an SBR so that might be the problem.
It seems to be as loud as my F/A 5.56 w/o the suppressor.
Probably over time people who make movies and people who watch movies have come to expect a certain sound. Why? Because that sound has been there in all the other movies they’ve seen. Eventually it becomes what is expected.
Mine, too. You can hear the hammer fall and the slide cycle .22 LR pistol with a silencer. You can also hear the bullet ring the backstop. It’s fun.
Not generally, but there have been a few. The suppressed revolver used in the Elmore Leonard movie, Glitz, was the real deal.
Jesse said, “I just might shoot some rabbit.”
Jonathan said, “Won’t the hikers hear the shots?”
Joe said, “That’s why I packed sub-sonics.”
Jonathan said, “Sub-sonics?”
“That loud crack you hear when you fire a .22 is the sound of the bullet breaking the sound barrier. Breaking it two times, really. Once speeding up and once slowing down. Sub-sonic ammo is designed to travel below the speed of sound. The loudest thing you’ll hear is the gun’s mechanism operating.”
Jesse said, “I thought you weren’t supposed to use subsonic ammo in rifles.”
“I think they’ll work just fine in that little bolt action Savage. Oh, there it is.”
From the book, Collateral Crimes
How about this sneaky russian piece/silent revolver:
http://modernfirearms.net/handguns/double-action-revolvers/rus/ots-3-silent-e.html
But in general, the spacing between the cylinder and barrel on most revolvers provides a lot of space for sound to escape from.
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