loudest rifle

Dont laugh but my mini 14 tactical is very loud. I am not sure if it is due to the short barrel or maybe the bird cage on the end but it is loud. Seems to be louder than my Ar with the same length barrel :confused:
 
Gonna throw in 50 BMG again. The brake can cause headaches, sinus problems, destroys optics, and your cautioned to wear double hearing protection. .338 would be getting up there.
 
My personal experience is a 300 WBY that I owned a few years ago. I had what was called a quiet brake installed on it but it was anything but quiet. That thing was so loud people would leave until I was done.
 
My vote would be for the 16" 50 caliber Naval rifle.

Found in groups of three on Iowa class battleships.

As to ordinary rifles, anything with a muzzle brake will seem lounder, because it redirects the blast closer to ear. It does not phisically increase the volume it just makes it seem louder.

I have 18.5" Remington carbines in .222, .243. 6mm, .308, & .350 Mag, and they seem quite a bit louder (for caliber) than rifles with longer barrels. Again, its not that they are actually louder in a measured sense, but that the blast is closer to the ear.

A .22 pistol seems louder to me than a .22 rifle, for the same reason.
 
I was at a 200 yard range, shooting my varmint gun, when a fellow set up to shoot on the bench next to me. I didn't pay much attention till he touched off a round. Oh Good Lord!!!! What a KABOOM that was. I turned to him trying to remain calm and asked him what that rifle was. He was shooting a 460 Weatherby Magnum, with muzzle break. The good news, and the only good news, is that he only shot it a couple of times to check his zero. Then he packed up and left. He said that he was going Grizzly Bear hunting in Alaska.
 
The 105 mm rifled tube on the M60 series tanks is pretty loud, although I'd suspect that those 16" guns on battleships are noisy too. Are those rifled or smoothbore? The Army has gone to smoothbore guns with the 120mm tank cannon, but it's pretty loud too.

I'd think that the loudest shoulder-fired rifle in the inventory would be the big Barrett.
 
Gonna have to go with my .50 Beowulf. The range master politely asked me one day if I would stop shooting it because people started to complain that they couldn't shoot with the explosion of the rounds. It also was knocking the paper targets out of the clips 2 isles over and the concussion wave was rattling peoples insides. Lol that guy was a little annoyed. So I put it away. Keep in mind I was at an indoor range that day.
 
Mosin nagant m44 is pretty loud. I was out shooting and there was a guy about 200 yards away from me who walked over and said "thats the loudest thing I've heard out here". That made my day. He literally walked 200 yards to tell me that.
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My counterboerd M38 is louder than my M44. My son typically stands 20ft behind me and says you can feel it in the ground when its shot.
 
Short barrels and slow powder make LOUD guns.

My 7mm-08 Encore handgun with a 15" barrel loaded with near max charges of H380 is G-O-D AWFUL loud. I wear ear plugs under muffs and still if there are walls, vehicles, even trees nearby it makes my ears ring. Technically not a "rifle" but a 1 inch longer barrel wouldn't make it much quieter.

QuickLoad estimates the muzzle pressure near 16,000psi... Oh, it's loud. Awful, awful loud.
 
You should hear my 14.5" BCM with a SM556 on it... my friend tells me that the hearing protection doesn't help lol.
 
I do not know if it is loudest but I agree .300wm with a brake makes a ton of noise. I would not shoot one on the line if others were around so as not to subject them to the noise. Not bad if you are behind the gun but on either side... it is painful.
 
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