Gun Sounds
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2A was "political" when it was first adopted.
At a place I worked I discovered another dedicated Prairie Dog (AKA prairie rat) hunter in the upper management echelons of the company and we decided to start a "Boom-Whop" club because of the "Whop!" sound of the bullet's impact on them coming back a fraction of a second after the report of the rifle.
The "club" never took off, though, because it turned out he wouldn't tell me where his favorite prairie rat shooting area was, and I wouldn't tell him where mine was.
Sorta the same situation as with "Where's your favorite fishin' hole?"
I won't say where my favorite fishin' hole is, and you won't tell me where yours is.
Besides, he used a .22-250 and I was using my puny little .223 Remington, and I knew he'd be out-ranging me all the time.
Class differences, see?
Notice the nice, clean, big, long-necked, elegant, polished and sophisticated .22-250 (his) on the left, versus the rough and dirty, workaday, dirt-under-the-fingernails tiny little .223 Remington on the right (mine). Class differences.
So I figured his Boom-Whop had to be bigger than my Boom-Whop and that was the end of that.
Terry, 230RN
The "club" never took off, though, because it turned out he wouldn't tell me where his favorite prairie rat shooting area was, and I wouldn't tell him where mine was.
Sorta the same situation as with "Where's your favorite fishin' hole?"
I won't say where my favorite fishin' hole is, and you won't tell me where yours is.
Besides, he used a .22-250 and I was using my puny little .223 Remington, and I knew he'd be out-ranging me all the time.
Class differences, see?
Notice the nice, clean, big, long-necked, elegant, polished and sophisticated .22-250 (his) on the left, versus the rough and dirty, workaday, dirt-under-the-fingernails tiny little .223 Remington on the right (mine). Class differences.
So I figured his Boom-Whop had to be bigger than my Boom-Whop and that was the end of that.
Terry, 230RN
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exavid
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I've fired a couple of semi auto pistols with suppressors. A fellow I know has a gun shop and I met him one day at our local county range trying out some different suppressors on a couple of pistols. I happened to have an audio meter app on my iPhone4 so I used it to check the different noise levels of a couple of his suppressors. On the .45 he had it sounded similar to a .22 rifle shooting low vel .22s. It definitely wasn't a phut sound but considerably quieter than the unsuppressed gun. You can legally own suppressors in OR though it's necessary to pay the $200 federal tax for the permit.
BTW - that phewww sound of a richochet that you often hear in the movies is realistic for some richochets. If the bullet hits a hard surface at a shallow angle that makes it tumble at a high rate of speed in its flight that's the sound you get.
BTW - that phewww sound of a richochet that you often hear in the movies is realistic for some richochets. If the bullet hits a hard surface at a shallow angle that makes it tumble at a high rate of speed in its flight that's the sound you get.
Calibre44
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Actually another sound I love is the 'WA-BOOM' my Colt Dragoon makes on a full load of BP plus the resulting recoil of course.
230RN
2A was "political" when it was first adopted.
There's also the hollow half-ringing plungggg of a shell being dropped into a double barreled shotgun barrel (which I borrowed once.) That sound fascinated me, but I found I couldn't shoot a side by side double-barreled shotgun worth a darn, so I gave it back to the borrowee.
Maybe someone ought to make a video capturing some of the sounds we're talking about. I once recorded some ricochet sounds up on the Grasslands where at the time you could shoot in just about any direction without hitting anything but air and the ground. I used a cassette recorder placed near a flat rock which gave satisfying and consistent ricochets.
Also interesting was the sound of a .357 bullet coming straight down. I tried this experiment once (relying on the laws of probability supplemented by the courage of a couple of beers) and it took about five shots before I heard anything and it was a wierd undulating whirring sound followed by the plop of the bullet a hundred yards away. Bullet must have been tumbling or or wobbling or something. That was also on the Grasslands.
'Course, that was when Terry was Terry and a dollar was a dollar and the Grasslands were the Grasslands.
Terry, 230RN
Maybe someone ought to make a video capturing some of the sounds we're talking about. I once recorded some ricochet sounds up on the Grasslands where at the time you could shoot in just about any direction without hitting anything but air and the ground. I used a cassette recorder placed near a flat rock which gave satisfying and consistent ricochets.
Also interesting was the sound of a .357 bullet coming straight down. I tried this experiment once (relying on the laws of probability supplemented by the courage of a couple of beers) and it took about five shots before I heard anything and it was a wierd undulating whirring sound followed by the plop of the bullet a hundred yards away. Bullet must have been tumbling or or wobbling or something. That was also on the Grasslands.
'Course, that was when Terry was Terry and a dollar was a dollar and the Grasslands were the Grasslands.
Terry, 230RN
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Jim NE
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Not all handguns of the same caliber are of the same volume. When I shot a tokarev in 9mm that I recently owned, I thought the person in the next lane was shooting a really loud gun...and pulling the trigger at the exact same times I was. 
. Even the range officer commented to me on how different that gun sounded. This was all non-supressed, of course.
. Even the range officer commented to me on how different that gun sounded. This was all non-supressed, of course.Calibre44
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One sound I hate is when someone in a film has to throw down a gun and you get that awful clacking clanking and scraping noise as it slides across some concert! ... yuk!
Mind you I do realise that some of the guns are rubber and the noise is put in afterwards ... still sounds horrid though!!!
Mind you I do realise that some of the guns are rubber and the noise is put in afterwards ... still sounds horrid though!!!
jstein650
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Calibre44 - OMG I cringe every time I hear that! (Like you, I know, usually sound effect, but still!)
jad0110
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My favorite gun sounds ...
In no particular order:
Colt Model P and replicas: 4 click action.
The cycling of just about any lever or pump action.
The Garand "Ping", as well as the sound the action makes when you bump the op rod shut on a fresh en bloc clip.
AK action cycling.
AR "sproing" from the buffer tube during firing.
In no particular order:
Colt Model P and replicas: 4 click action.
The cycling of just about any lever or pump action.
The Garand "Ping", as well as the sound the action makes when you bump the op rod shut on a fresh en bloc clip.
AK action cycling.
AR "sproing" from the buffer tube during firing.
Reloadron
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Something I had never given much thought to but found interesting was the Edson Range, Camp Pendleton CA. Those who qualified in the Marine Corps with the M-14 should be familiar with this.
We fired from the 200, 300 and 500 meter lines. You took turns working the Butts or Pitts where the targets were raised and lowered. You are in a long trench below the targets. Each position had phone talkers. When a phone talker you could hear the shooter fire in the background, that bang was followed a split second later by the distinct crack as the bullets passed over our heads and through the targets. A very distinct sound. Mostly noticed at the 500 meter line.
Ron
We fired from the 200, 300 and 500 meter lines. You took turns working the Butts or Pitts where the targets were raised and lowered. You are in a long trench below the targets. Each position had phone talkers. When a phone talker you could hear the shooter fire in the background, that bang was followed a split second later by the distinct crack as the bullets passed over our heads and through the targets. A very distinct sound. Mostly noticed at the 500 meter line.
Ron
TrickyDick
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Kenny: "PEW PEW PEW!"
Cartman: "No Kenny, it's not 'pew pew pew', it's BANG BANG BANG!"
~South Park
Cartman: "No Kenny, it's not 'pew pew pew', it's BANG BANG BANG!"
~South Park
beatledog7
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I like the sounds of a revolver cylinder closing and indexing. Subtle but satisfying.
exavid
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My AR doesn't go sproing any more. I couldn't stand the sound and put in a sproing buster disk in the buffer. Works great, no more Mattel noise.
tnxdshooter
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Precisely why they are called "suppressors" and not "silencers". Its not possible to silence a firearm completely but you can suppress it.
Sent from my mind using ninja telepathy.
tnxdshooter
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They are called silencers or mufflers because those are the legal terms used in the US code. Maxim also called them silencers when he marketed them to sportsman over 100 years ago.
I work at a rifle range and when I see someone with an AR, especially one with a muzzle brake, I ask them if they want a silencer on that thing. If I say suppressor, then they might look at me funny because they already have a flash suppressor attached.
Ranb
I work at a rifle range and when I see someone with an AR, especially one with a muzzle brake, I ask them if they want a silencer on that thing.
If I say suppressor, then they might look at me funny because they already have a flash suppressor attached.Ranb
Carl N. Brown
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I like the bang clang sound of shooting metallic silhouette targets.
So do I. You might like these then.
10/22 on steel plate at 200 yards
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2hIJ5-lFK8
510 whisper on steel plate
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAjLe9GoNMo[/URL]
Ranb
10/22 on steel plate at 200 yards
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2hIJ5-lFK8
510 whisper on steel plate
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAjLe9GoNMo[/URL]
Ranb
230RN
2A was "political" when it was first adopted.
exavid
"My AR doesn't go sproing any more. I couldn't stand the sound and put in a sproing buster disk in the buffer. Works great, no more Mattel noise."
Same sound as the springs in my Harris Bipod and is transmtted to my headbone through the cheek weld on the wooden stock. I was going to dope out a way to suppress/silence/buffer that noise with foam rubber or neoprene tubing or something, but I got used to it.
REF:
"My AR doesn't go sproing any more. I couldn't stand the sound and put in a sproing buster disk in the buffer. Works great, no more Mattel noise."
Same sound as the springs in my Harris Bipod and is transmtted to my headbone through the cheek weld on the wooden stock. I was going to dope out a way to suppress/silence/buffer that noise with foam rubber or neoprene tubing or something, but I got used to it.
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