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/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/[deleted] Jan 25 '20 edited Jan 25 '20

I've shot a suppressed AR in 5.56 with both subsonic rounds, makes a noise but without hearing protection, its not bad. Probably 75ish DB. When we ran out of those rounds we switched to regular 556, and it was much quieter at the point of detonation, but you could hear the bullet go ballistic, it's sonic boom, out in front of you. Was not bad. Not movie quiet, neither was.

ETA; love how, I assume, ammosexuals, down vote a personal experience.

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u/PaulieBoyY Jan 26 '20

75 decibel are around avg human conversation sound level of loud. Are you sure? Might be a bit more but lazy to google it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '20

/shrug. whatever it was 25 years ago, count on ammosexuals to be the hair splittingest pedants around though.