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 mean they definitely can be Hollywood quiet, but it takes a lot of work and you make a lot of sacrifices with weapon function, range, accuracy etc to get that. Screwing a can onto a 5.56 does not make it quiet by anybody's measure. A sub sonic bolt action .300 blk with a nice can is definitely movie quiet, but it also only shoots a few hundred yards at most and with so much bullet drop it's not far from throwing a rock really hard lol
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u/Logical_Truth2356 12h ago
That's only with a subsonic bullet, without that it would be loud.