Loud as hell when open muzzle. Suppressed … sounds like a .22. The supersonic crack from the bullet displacing air is louder than the muzzle out gassing (report) if the rifle is suppressed.
For those unfamiliar, the loud nature of a rifle shot is proportional to the caliber of the round. The noise/blast comes from the rapid displacement of air as the detonated propellant out gasses from the muzzle (hence the term muzzle blast). Exactly the same principles of a thunder clap. It not the lightning strike/impact that generates the noise, it is the rapid displacement of air that created a “sonic shockwave”.
Loud as hell when open muzzle. Suppressed … sounds like a .22. The supersonic crack from the bullet displacing air is louder than the muzzle out gassing (report) if the rifle is suppressed.
For those unfamiliar, the loud nature of a rifle shot is proportional to the caliber of the round. The noise/blast comes from the rapid displacement of air as the detonated propellant out gasses from the muzzle (hence the term muzzle blast). Exactly the same principles of a thunder clap. It not the lightning strike/impact that generates the noise, it is the rapid displacement of air that created a “sonic shockwave”.