Loudest gun you've been around or fired?

[ruckus3008]

about 4 feet from a 12 GA indoors. My ears were ringing for about 6 hours.

 

[Harry Paget Flashman]

CZ 52, CZ 52, CZ 52!

Followed by T/C pistol in .223, 5"/38, 5"/54 and 6"/47.

 

[Black Majik]

.50 BMG wearing only earplugs.

I've learned to double up near them.

 

[Rich K]

Does a 106mm recoilless rifle count?

That puppy would take the blousing right out of your trousers if you were too close when it fired.

 

[SpeedAKL]

I've never been around a .50BMG or S&W 500, are they really THAT bad?

The only time I've had my ears ringing from guns was when I was stupid enough to walk into a covered outdoor range without yet putting on my headphones. A 12-gauge, a .50AE Desert Eagle, and what appeared to be a Remington 700P in .308 went off right in succession near where I was standing. The shotgun wasn't that terrible, but the Deagle and especially the .308 - OUCH!!! I learned my lesson...

 

[johnmcl]

Hi all,

Some time ago I remember being 400m downrange from a previously undetected battery of Army 155mm Paladin's that just received the "Fire for Effect" order. That was pretty loud and a lesson in life to my young 2LT on map reading skills.

 

[fast eddie]

My first handgun - GP100 .357 magnum. Packed it on a hike just after I bought it and decided that was a good time to try it out. "I don't need no stinkin' earplugs I'm in the wide open." Big mistake; ears rang for 30 minutes.

 

[Walkalong]

"Felson" I presume.

 

[Deanimator]

A friend has a Czech Mauser vz33 police carbine that's a Yugo rework. It has a 16" barrel. We used to shoot it with Prvi Partizan 198gr. 7.92mm ball. It was incredibly loud, had a flash like a 16" naval rifle and hurt equally on both ends. I used to have a Commission '91 artillery short rifle. It had all of the aforementioned qualities.

 

[briang2ad]

120mm Smoothbore of M1A1

Especially anywhere near the tank on the outside. INside with a CVC helmet ain't bad. If you are forward of the thurret, you are toast. 105mm is pretty bad too, but not like the 120!

 

[ABTOMAT]

I don't have any particularly good stories, but in a related vein a friend of mine was on the Army rifle team at Ft. Eustis in the '50s. He's told me about shooting 1903s, M1s, and M-14s day-in and day-out, entirely without hearing protection.

Did I mention he's now nearly deaf?

 

[BobMcG]

Loudest gun been I've been around? Six pounder cannons.

Loudest rifle touched off? Probably my 1895 .405WCF or even perhaps my Gibbs .308 Jungle Carbine with a short barrel and muzzle brake. That's unreal loud too.

 

[Nimick]

Tough call between a garand, and my buddies magnum reloads out of a dual triggerd sxs 12 ga.

 

[kis2]

my brother has a .357 that is absolutely crazy loud. i were ear plugs all the time, but when he fires that i wear the plugs and cover my ears. revolvers.

 

[bdutton]

My 1911

When I accidently double charged a handload! Whoa!

 

[Pat McCoy]

Muzzle noise of 175mm howitzer right oer my bunker, incomming noise from RPG several yards away. (incomming ground shake from B52 "ArcLight" strike -many large bombs in several strings).

 

[kahr404life]

Barret 50 BMG, twenty rounds down range, my sinuses shook each time the weapon fired . Great fun .

 

[okiebuckout]

I would have to second the motion of 155mm paladins and 120mm Abrams...

 

[doubleg]

My first handgun - GP100 .357 magnum. Packed it on a hike just after I bought it and decided that was a good time to try it out. "I don't need no stinkin' earplugs I'm in the wide open." Big mistake; ears rang for 30 minutes.

Thats not as bad as shooting 50 rounds of 9mm and 45 acp without ear protection. My ears rang for over a month and I think they still are. Dumbest thing I ever did.

 

[Stevie-Ray]

My T/C Contender in .45-70 Magnaported, indoor range. It blows out all wall furnaces and causes everybody to put down their guns and back up in disgust. I don't fire it indoors at all anymore, and consequently, am more well received at my ranges.

 

[KINGMAX]

Hhhmm WHAT DID YA SAY

LOUDEST WHAT aaaAAahhhhhh WHAT DID HE SAY !!!!!!!!!!1

 

[DontBurnMyFlag]

Ive been in an indoor range with a .500 S&W

Ive been in an indoor range standing next to someone with a Desert Eagle in .50 AE

Ive also been in that same indoor range, about 20 slots down from someone with a full auto HK G3. That thing reverberated through my bones. lol

 

[CypherNinja]

I was at a range once in Maine with a guy who'd brought a Lahti.

I love those things. We were outdoors and that thing rattled my skull. A nice lady 5 stations down jumped so hard her safety glasses came off.

 

[kcmarine]

12 gauge with a slug. Hard to appreciate that kind of report nowadays.

 

[tbtrout]

16 inch guns on the USS New Jersey.