Which rifle is loudest?

It is actually totally practical too use hearing protection while hunting... get yourself a set of Peltor Sound Trap electronic muffs you will hear better than you do without protection and they cut out any sound over 83 decibels.

If you can afford more money try these out h ttp://www.earinc.com/p1-electronic-hunting.php they are molded hearing aids that increase volume as well as cut off any sound over 83 decibels I never leave home without mine but I only need one and it was covered under my insurance plan...
 
amazing stuff

Camp Cook said:
If you can afford more money try these out h ttp://www.earinc.com/p1-electronic-hunting.php they are molded hearing aids that increase volume as well as cut off any sound over 83 decibels
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I checked out the web site and, wow that is great:dancingbanana:. There is a model that has a built in two-way radio. I had never heard about that technology. I guess you learn something new every day. That is why I love this MB.

How much does one of those babies go for? The web site does not have a price list on it.

Thanks
Regards
Robert
 
Having borrowed a set of those electronic peltors I have to say they are the really neat devices, turning them up I could hear people talk at at the 100 meter target stand while thy set up, and once the range was hot the peltors shut out just the gunfire.

I also almost got a set of the electronic hearing aid type for work last year but it wasn't covered by medical. :(
 
i use hearing protection for anything that involves more than one shot. at the range, varminting, grouse, whatever.
but for just sitting in a stand waiting to take one shot with a reasonable cartridge (.308, no brake), i dont bother. hearing damage is cumulative: IMO the average kid damages their ears more from just one day of listening to their ipod than you do taking one shot without hearing protection. so i think those couple shots i take a year without it are OK.... if anyone more knowledgeable on the topic wants to prove me wrong, im all ears (no pun intended).
 
Lister mentioned the .22 version of this cartridge, but I can't believe nobody mentioned the sound of the .300 Eargesplitten Lautenboomer. It's a German cartridge which purports to make dicks fall off from 1,000 yards with a single shot - unless, of course, the observer is immunized by having one of his/her own.

You see the .300 Eargesplitten Lautenboomer all over the covers of magazines from time to time - usually as a comparison whenever a company comes up with their newest 'short/ultra magnum' which is, of course, purported by each company in turn to make dicks fall off at progressively longer and longer ranges than the .300 EGLB due to modern shoulder geometry and powder technology.

-M
 
9mikemike said:
105mm

My AR with a 10.5" bbl will knock the crap out of you if you happen to be in front of the muzzle, or beside it.
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Yep. That's the worst I've heard. It's the frequency, not just the volume. If you're in the booth next to the guy, it's like a sledge hammer hitting an anvil inside your head, and that's with good protection. No big bore hurts as much, even though they move a lot more dust.
 
A little off topic
but when acting as a range officer at the rifle range at my club

I encourage any one with a muzzle brake to get the muzzle past the front wall ( covered shooting range) as it greatly reduces the sound inside. also any one with a shortie and muzzle is behind the wall
 
I think the loudest rifle I have incountered was a fellow club members 30-378 weatherby.and that is with ear plugs and a set of muffs over them.
 
Big Doug touched off his 300WM with a brake when I was standing next to him. My damned ear ached for hours.

Consequently I have a hate on for brakes.
 
A 50BMG with a brake (I guess they all have a brake) sounds like grenade practice.

the muzzle bark is a function of many things. A short barrel barks more than a long one.

If the gun is too loud to use in the field without plugs (I had a 18" 308 like that) you can change the noise level by changing powders. I suspect than some powers have some kind of explosion of gasses at the muzzle.

My short 308 is ok now with most powders, but some are absolutly painful and dangerously loud.
 
"...45/70 is unbearable with heavy loads..." Lose the heavy loads. The .45-70 doesn't really need 'em.
The average gun shot is 140 to 170 decibels. 85 db is considered harmful. One shot from any firearm without hearing protection will cause permanent hearing damage, including a .22 LR(about 134 db). Some air rifles can produce 104 decibels. A shotgun runs around 160 to 170 db.
Where the sound wave goes has more to do with it than the actual noise. Muzzle brakes send the wave sideways and back.
"...338 with a muzzle brake..." Doesn't need a muzzle brake to be excessive to shoot next to on a range. The muzzle blast of one nearly knocked me off the bench long ago.
 
Why do guys with muzzle breaks always pick a bench next to me when I'm shooting 223. Quite often they will ask what calibre I am shooting as if to reasure themselves before they set up.
 
sunray said:
"...45/70 is unbearable with heavy loads..." Lose the heavy loads. The .45-70 doesn't really need 'em.
The average gun shot is 140 to 170 decibels. 85 db is considered harmful. One shot from any firearm without hearing protection will cause permanent hearing damage, including a .22 LR(about 134 db). Some air rifles can produce 104 decibels. A shotgun runs around 160 to 170 db.
Where the sound wave goes has more to do with it than the actual noise. Muzzle brakes send the wave sideways and back.
"...338 with a muzzle brake..." Doesn't need a muzzle brake to be excessive to shoot next to on a range. The muzzle blast of one nearly knocked me off the bench long ago.
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ok ok jesus christ, you sound like my ex gf!!! (was an audiologist) :D
 
Tripped a modest load in my .340WM without protection just the once at the range. Oh, my that stung! Can't remember if it even made a noise backing up a friend's griz kill.
 
Ganderite said:
A 50BMG with a brake (I guess they all have a brake) sounds like grenade practice.

the muzzle bark is a function of many things. A short barrel barks more than a long one.

If the gun is too loud to use in the field without plugs (I had a 18" 308 like that) you can change the noise level by changing powders. I suspect than some powers have some kind of explosion of gasses at the muzzle.

My short 308 is ok now with most powders, but some are absolutly painful and dangerously loud.
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Another solution is to choose heavier bullets that uses a lighter powder charge. A .308 loaded with a 150 gr bullet requires 43 grs of 4895 for top performance, but loaded with a 200 gr bullet it only needs 38 grs of the same powder.
 
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