Yep a silly 25 produces more than enough noise for my ears, outside.
The biggest hand gun I own now is a 9 mm. Ammo is almost reasonable.
When I was a kid we were night hunting for rabbits driving along hedge rows after a snow and one of dad's friends discharged a 12 gauge in the car, shot right through the roof. Couldn't hear for a couple days. I guess I should have been glad that he wasn't using my uncles 8 gauge. :)
We were not hunting for sport, but for food, this was in the middle 40's.
I sold my BHP 9mm’s, since they are currently categorized as ‘military ammunition capable’ by some dunderhead bureaucrat with a ‘hat-on’ for guns of any type.
I am quite comfortable with a nice snubby, in a revolver-only chambering.