Thread: Suppressor effectiveness - Think about this!

For obvious reasons hunters rarely use hearing protection when they hunt. Unfortunately unsuppressed gunfire from hunting rifles is loud enough to cause permanent hearing loss.
An unsuppressed rifle produces noise levels of 165 -170db and those with silencers should reduce it by about 20-30db.
How about a simple test?
We invite all the brands to test the silencers and muzzle brakes (for recoil) on 1 day. We test the following
Brand
Weight
Length
Diameter
db no silencer (The sound meter must be at the back where your head would be if fire a rifle)
db with silencer
Chrono without
Chrono with
Barrel temp with
Barrel temp without
Silencer start temp
Silencer end temp
Recoil with
Recoil without

We test it with 2 rifles a 243 and a 300wm

sounds good...might be hard to get all suppressors fitted to 2 rifles though. easy to do a 'bring what you have' and test them with and without suppressor on.

Originally Posted by Hennie260

For obvious reasons hunters rarely use hearing protection when they hunt.

That would of been right years ago. Now that we have electronic ear muffs you can get hearing protection and listen as you hunt, better that normal hearing.