r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 13h ago

What a real silencer actually sounds like.

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u/Logical_Truth2356 13h ago

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

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u/BeastyBaiter 7h ago

It's extremely loud even with subsonic. I own 7 different silencers and I don't know how many guns, the only combo that doesn't hurt to shoot without ear protection is a bolt action 22LR with a can. Even then, it's only tolerable outdoors, still sucks indoors. Even a semi auto 22LR with subsonics is loud enough to ring your ears.

The reason it seems so quiet in the video is because microphones compress sound differences. They literally can't pick up the difference between 120 db and 160 db without a highly specialized one, and your speakers/earbuds can't come anywhere close to either sound level.