Talk:Baza/@comment-83.23.131.97-20171124005306/@comment-67.11.161.251-20171125082654

Sorry Finner, but the instant you say silencer as if that were actually a technical term, that's the same instant the people who actually work with firearm dismiss you as a know-nothing TV-educated.

The reason for this is that there is no such thing as a "silencer". It's a made-up term from spy flicks and action movies.

Suppressor is the correct term. If it's a particular type of suppressor -- with soft parts and gaskets intended to muffle the noise and hide the muzzle blast -- I can sort-of forgive you for calling it a silencer... even though it isn't. (And BTW, those things wear out FAST.  Soft parts...)

I'm perfectly aware that most bullets, even from handguns, travel well above the speed of sound, however, my military background also imparts to me the knowledge that special, subsonic or near-subsonic loads exist for exactly the purpose of being as stealthy as possible in very particular situations. This is exactly why I specified those types of loads, even though, apparently, you failed to read it.

The shockwave edge from a bullet's sonic boom is small, however the noise can travel much further than twenty meters depending on the exact type and velocity of projectile. Regardless, obviously  twenty meters is much too far for stealthy purposes, especially when that's a twenty meter diameter cylinder the length of the bullet's flight -- a huge area.

"Anyway" modern silencers DO NOT EXIST.  Those grades and types of suppressors that people like to refer, inaccurately, to as "silencers" feature multiple layers of relatively soft material to absorb sound as well as gaskets that actually touch the exiting bullet. Both of these features reduce bullet velocity (while simultaneously diffusing any potential exhaust gases away from following the bullet and thus removing any further potential propulsion, if you were foolish enough to use this grade of suppressor with a load well above sonic), particularly in the very low loads of already subsonic or near-subsonic rounds that do not produce enough gas to propel the bullet even by the end of barrel even WITHOUT a "silencer" attached.