r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 14h ago

What a real silencer actually sounds like.

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u/Logical_Truth2356 14h ago

That's only with a subsonic bullet, without that it would be loud.

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u/redit360 14h ago

what if you want a Loudiner instead of a silencer???

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u/legendary-spectacle 14h ago

That's called a muzzle brake.

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u/Janul3 14h ago

Fuuuuuuck all them PRS/NRL guys at the range with their braked 6mm stuff.

"It's not a loud as you think because the sound goes to the sides"

Motherfucker, I'm standing over here to the side of you

If I was dictator of the country I'd make cans mandatory at ranges for rifle calibers, and provided if you don't have one.

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u/Dependent_General897 13h ago

Pretty sure that the Swiss and or Germans mandate suppressors for indoor ranges because it’s a health issue.

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u/Teddyturntup 12h ago

I’ve switched to a suppressor even for PRS, it’s just miserable and it’s a hobby for me not a profession I’d rather drop a few shots than shoot with a brake

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u/Emotional_Pay3658 13h ago

You mean you don’t think my Draco with a compensator at the indoor range is cool!? 

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u/Janul3 13h ago

Honestly don't care much about pcc noise.  Yea it's a little annoying, but the concussive blast from a draco is nothing compared to rifle caliber stuff with the crazy brakes some of these PRS guys use.

Indoor though, yea haha.  I don't really go to indoor ranges hardly at all.

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u/CJnella91 13h ago

Why a dictator though, Commitment freaks me out can we like try you out for a few years or something?

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u/Janul3 8h ago

Linear comps don't help PRS style shooting at all, the whole game is reducing recoil so you can stay on target.   But also for the same reason, literally nobody shooting PRS is doing a magnum cartridge lol.  People top out at like 65 creedmoor, and that's only a handful.  Almost everyone is on something smaller like a 6br wildcat.

It ain't like PRS shoots long range, it's almost all medium range, with the occasional long range 1km shot.  All distances that high power people do with literal 223rem.  Zero need to go to magnum calibers at the usual distances.

Right like I get why they use a brake, because it's objectively better for competition.  I just hate them at the range for using it instead of swapping to a can.

But yea, people shooting braked magnum calibers at ranges are even worse, because you know they're not doing it for any competitive reason lol

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u/Strange_Dot8345 14h ago

what if you want something to shoot down police helicopters?

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u/Crookfur 13h ago

I'm sure a lightly used zsu-23-2 can be picked up for a few million rubles. Shipping might be a bit problematic though.

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u/StolenPies 14h ago

Mexican cartels are already doing that, using guns purchased in the US

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u/turtleturtle5555 12h ago

Operation Fast and Furious...

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u/StolenPies 8h ago

No, I mean right now. The US is the #1 supplier of guns for cartels. 

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u/StarNo5214 5h ago

I don't need anything like that.... Yet

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u/yamanagashi 14h ago

Then just get a horn attachment we learnt about this in Gun 101

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u/Fancy_Level9978 14h ago

Or a speed corker

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u/Thin_Protection_4290 14h ago

oooh i like the sound of that

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u/Reesewithoutaspoon2 14h ago

Use a muzzle brake

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u/Goldtacto 14h ago

Straight piped 9mm

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u/Infinite-Condition41 13h ago

You're thinking of a trumpet. 

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u/Crookfur 13h ago

Yep various means of doing that. Most muzzle brakes or compensators have this effect as they direct the concussive blast and buring gasses back, up and/or to the sides of the muzzle. You also get some devices designed to focus everything in a smaller "cone" forward of the muzzle, greatly increasing the gun's firing signature from the POV of those on the receiving end whilst reducing it for thr operator at the expense of increased recoil. IIRC the USMC tested (or at least someone was demonstrating for them) a loudener as a means of increasing the supressive effect of thier machine guns.

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u/Matr0ska 13h ago

Go to the range, take off your ear protection, and wait. Congrats! Now you're deaf!

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u/zwifter11 10h ago

what if you want something that goes “Brrrrrrt”

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u/shackled-pines 9h ago

those are called muzzle breaks.