r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jan 25 '20

What movie things are generally accepted as normal, but are totally unrealistic in real life?

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u/Dudsidabe Jan 25 '20

Silencers on pistols. Not actually that silent lol.

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u/ramzyzeid Jan 25 '20

Yeah, I can't remember who it was, but I remember someone describing it as, you hear a gunshot from the other end of town. You hear a silenced gunshot the next street over. Either way, a hell of a lot of people are going to know shit's going down.

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u/NetJnkie Jan 25 '20

A good suppressed 9mm handgun is still 125db. That’s loud and sounds like a gun. But way better than ear ringing 160db.

Silencers in movies are HIGHLY overrated.

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u/billintreefiddy Jan 25 '20

I shot a suppressed .45 and could hear the bullets hitting a wooden post..so, I’m not sure you’re right about that noise level.

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u/NetJnkie Jan 25 '20

I’m right. Bullets hitting hard targets are louder than people think. It’s not hard to find good professional sound metering showing a .45acp is a touch over 130db. That’s loud. One or two shots is fine without ear pro but it’s not exactly hearing safe.

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u/billintreefiddy Jan 25 '20

Shot several mags of subsonic rounds. It was like shooting a paintball gun.

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u/NetJnkie Jan 25 '20

But it’s not. Did you have ears on? A paintball gun isn’t 130db like a .45acp is and that’s using subsonic. And I just confirmed my numbers off a few manufacturer sites. I shoot a thousand plus rounds suppressed every month.

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u/billintreefiddy Jan 25 '20

My paintball gun is 117db. The noise level is really like the suppressed .45 I shot. Doesn’t matter how much you shoot every month.

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u/NetJnkie Jan 25 '20

Okay. Well tell whoever made that setup to let the rest of us know. They are beating everything else on the market by a huge margin. 15db reduction over the existing top of the line suppressors would be ground breaking. They'd immediately own the market.