reticle said:
Really Theohazard? I don't remember seeing you out there in the desert with me. What did your meter read when I was firing? Was I firing wet or dry? How many grains of which powder did I charge my cartridges.
None of that matters, not unless you loaded your cartridges so light that they don't even remotely resemble regular pistol loads.
There's no need to be upset. The fact is that there is no silencer on the market that is "hearing safe" using normal ammo. Period. Even a silenced .22 rifle fired wet outdoors using subsonic .22 LR ammo will still be above the medically safe limit for noise-induced hearing loss over time.
You're using a .45 ACP KAC silencer, which fired wet from the best host possible on a good day outdoors with favorable testing equipment will meter 125 dB at best. That's FAR above the level that will permanently damage your hearing.
reticle said:
The fact is you don't know what I experienced.
No, but I know this: Either you experienced something that nobody else firing a pistol silencer has ever experienced, or your silencer wasn't hearing safe.
reticle said:
Slamming my truck door was louder.
You're trying to use your ears to determine whether your silencer was "hearing safe", but that doesn't work very well. Actual decibel measurements have shown time and time again that the best pistol silencers on the market in the most favorable tests possible never meter below 120 dB. So either your car door is very loud or your ears aren't as good as a decibel meter at objectively measuring sound.
I hear this so often; people are convinced that their silencers are quieter than they actually are. And this is for two main reasons: First, they're mentally comparing the sound to what it sounds like unsuppressed, and the difference is huge. And second, the sound of a gun firing is much quicker and at a different pitch than many other sounds, so it seems quieter to the ear. But your Mk23 with your Knights suppressor made a sound that's similar in dB range to a jackhammer, even if your subjective experience tries to tell you otherwise. There's a reason why people use decibel meters to objectively measure sounds instead of their ears.
reticle said:
You may have had good intentions, your delivery could some work.
If I have offended you, I apologize. But your post was incorrect and irresponsible, especially considering I already addressed this previously in this thread and provided good links to more information.
There is plenty more verifiable information on the internet provided by various scientific organizations that study hearing loss. And there are plenty of links to various tests of the decibel levels of suppressed firearms. Combine that information, and it's pretty easy to determine that there's no physical way possible that your silencer is "hearing safe", not unless you loaded your rounds FAR below anything that resembles a standard pistol load.
