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<blockquote data-quote="codyadams" data-source="post: 2408474" data-attributes="member: 87243"><p>It's a fair argument, mainly in a semi auto, you can't really have it 100% hearing safe unless subsonic, it will always be a few dB over. In a bolt gun, you absolutely can get them hearing safe at the shooters ear, the threshold is 140 dB, for the time frame a gun shot lasts. The better/larger cans will get even large magnums in the mid 130's total dB level. Even then though, I generally wear ear protection at the range when shooting more than a time or two, just to be safe.</p><p></p><p>However, in my opinion the benefit is not just for me, the shooter. If your shooting a sounder of hogs, or at a pair of coyotes, or anything like that, it will be much, much quieter for the animals than an unsuppressed rifle. This can give more shooting opportunities at that specific group, and will also be far less likely to disturb other animals in the area. If you want to go shoot pigs on some private land, but it's deer season, a landowner would likely be happier if you weren't cracking off 6 or 8 rifle rounds, possibly scaring deer off their property, and will be more likely to give you permission. Same benefit applies with your own land. </p><p></p><p>A good example of this was my deer season this year, here in Wyoming. We had watched a group of deer go into this patch of pines that had a few shooter bucks. We spotted a few of them bedded in the trees about 350 yards away, but couldn't get a good look at him. Another one came out of the trees that was a shooter deer, so my cousin, shooting a supressed rifle, shot her deer first. The others saw the deer react, but didn't bust out of the country. A couple didn't even get up, but the one I was watching did. This gave me a good opportunity to spend a couple minutes evaluating him, and ultimately decided to take him. He slowly walked out of the thicket, still calm but confused, and gave me an opportunity for a clear shot. We both harvested 150"+ deer from the same group. After I shot my deer with a muzzle braked rifle, they busted out, and left the country, never stopping until after they cleared a far Ridgeline. Shooting a bolt gun is easier, for hunting when generally only 1 round is fired, we don't use ear protection, and it makes shooter-spotter communication much more effective.</p><p></p><p>That is my reasoning for a supressor.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="codyadams, post: 2408474, member: 87243"] It's a fair argument, mainly in a semi auto, you can't really have it 100% hearing safe unless subsonic, it will always be a few dB over. In a bolt gun, you absolutely can get them hearing safe at the shooters ear, the threshold is 140 dB, for the time frame a gun shot lasts. The better/larger cans will get even large magnums in the mid 130's total dB level. Even then though, I generally wear ear protection at the range when shooting more than a time or two, just to be safe. However, in my opinion the benefit is not just for me, the shooter. If your shooting a sounder of hogs, or at a pair of coyotes, or anything like that, it will be much, much quieter for the animals than an unsuppressed rifle. This can give more shooting opportunities at that specific group, and will also be far less likely to disturb other animals in the area. If you want to go shoot pigs on some private land, but it's deer season, a landowner would likely be happier if you weren't cracking off 6 or 8 rifle rounds, possibly scaring deer off their property, and will be more likely to give you permission. Same benefit applies with your own land. A good example of this was my deer season this year, here in Wyoming. We had watched a group of deer go into this patch of pines that had a few shooter bucks. We spotted a few of them bedded in the trees about 350 yards away, but couldn't get a good look at him. Another one came out of the trees that was a shooter deer, so my cousin, shooting a supressed rifle, shot her deer first. The others saw the deer react, but didn't bust out of the country. A couple didn't even get up, but the one I was watching did. This gave me a good opportunity to spend a couple minutes evaluating him, and ultimately decided to take him. He slowly walked out of the thicket, still calm but confused, and gave me an opportunity for a clear shot. We both harvested 150"+ deer from the same group. After I shot my deer with a muzzle braked rifle, they busted out, and left the country, never stopping until after they cleared a far Ridgeline. Shooting a bolt gun is easier, for hunting when generally only 1 round is fired, we don't use ear protection, and it makes shooter-spotter communication much more effective. That is my reasoning for a supressor. [/QUOTE]
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