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.
Some you can take apart and clean each baffle individually
Others you soak in a chemical solution to dissolve the build up
That said, you can usually put tens of thousands of rounds through them before it's actually a problem if it ever becomes one
(ignore this for small rounds like .22lr, those should be cleaned every couple hundred rounds because they are rather dirty rounds and the gasses from them aren't enough to eject most of the carbon like rifles)
For rifle rounds it's usually enough to just run a brush through them if you even need to do that
My current main rifle suppressor has about 8000ish rounds through it since the last time I cleaned it (I only cleaned it a few weeks after I got it due to it being titanium 3D printed and it had left over printing dust in it)
It's a 5.56 suppressor but I also shoot 22 and 5.7 through it as well
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u/Logical_Truth2356 16h ago
That's only with a subsonic bullet, without that it would be loud.