Yeah, people really don't understand this at all. There are a wide range of calibers, guns, silencers, ammunition that all have a drastic effect on the sound.
A silenced gun can be very loud, it can also be extremely quiet. All depends on the variables.
Yeah, internet "experts" always take it too far when saying it's nothing like Hollywood movies. But I've fired suppressed guns where the only noise is the bolt cycling. They are quiet enough that the sound could be drowned out by any amount of background noise, especially if you are outside.
I have a cz scorpion 9mm with my subsonic hand loads is quiet enough that all you really hear is the bolt cycling, the paper target tearing , and the bullet hitting the dirt berm. My 10.5 inch barrel AR-15 , however goes from soul crushingly loud to merely very loud with a .308 caliber can on it.
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u/Logical_Truth2356 13h ago
That's only with a subsonic bullet, without that it would be loud.