“About 20 years ago, an inexperienced hunter wandered into the area I was hunting and took a shot at me-I heard the boom, hit the dirt, yelled profanity and rolled down into some trees instantly. If that idiot had been using a silencer, I would not be here talking about it...”
Huh? The bullet will get there long before you hear the shot.
In fact you would have more warning if the hunter was using a suppressor (silencer), because the bullet is much slower.
Don’t believe the crap in movies, a silencer won’t make high powered rifles as quiet as a chipmunk fart.
That is true, and I am blessed with extremely acute hearing-a genetic trait in females from my mom’s side, so I was already on alert for even a whisper of noise because I did not know the other hunters on the place-as I said, I’m alive because the fool was a bad shot.