buckhorn_cortez
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I'd question any rule that involved firearms deemed "too noisy."
The problem is setting a level and then measuring the level as you have to quantify at what point "too noisy" occurs. You can't do it by someone's opinion as that's not fair and it's not repeatable.
You can only do it using an impartial method like a sound meter. Sound meters capable of 160 dB or more impulse peak are expensive and take training to use accurately.
Sound falls off with the square of the distance, so there would have to be an entire set of test criteria developed in order to quantify what's too noisy and what isn't. Based upon distance from the source to the meter (or source to another shooter).
Since some people are more sensitive to sound than others, then you get into the entire range of subjective interpretation of the noise level and what is objectionable.
Then you have to set who gets priority - the person who was their first with the noisy gun, or the person who came later that objects to the noise.
While it may seem simple in theory - I'm not sure setting noise limits at a gun range is really something that can be done without excluding shooters who have brakes on their rifles and should be able to shoot just like anyone else.
The problem is setting a level and then measuring the level as you have to quantify at what point "too noisy" occurs. You can't do it by someone's opinion as that's not fair and it's not repeatable.
You can only do it using an impartial method like a sound meter. Sound meters capable of 160 dB or more impulse peak are expensive and take training to use accurately.
Sound falls off with the square of the distance, so there would have to be an entire set of test criteria developed in order to quantify what's too noisy and what isn't. Based upon distance from the source to the meter (or source to another shooter).
Since some people are more sensitive to sound than others, then you get into the entire range of subjective interpretation of the noise level and what is objectionable.
Then you have to set who gets priority - the person who was their first with the noisy gun, or the person who came later that objects to the noise.
While it may seem simple in theory - I'm not sure setting noise limits at a gun range is really something that can be done without excluding shooters who have brakes on their rifles and should be able to shoot just like anyone else.