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October 3rd, 2017 at 6:56 pm
Depends on the rifle, your hearing ability, and very much on the noise floor in your immediate surroundings. Everything is relative. Are you standing in an open field on a calm day with nothing around you, or are you in city traffic or in a construction zone?
I realized this as a kid, listening to two farm workers 80 yards away having a conversation next to a tractor with its engine running. I could hear everything they were saying, because they were hollering to get their voices above THEIR noise floor, next to that engine. It hit me then, that I could never yell loud enough for THEM to hear ME above their local noise floor even though they were the same distance from me that I was from them, as it were.
October 3rd, 2017 at 8:20 pm
You can certainly hear supersonic rounds going over your head. They are as loud as firecrackers.
October 4th, 2017 at 7:47 am
“You couldn’t hear a dump truck driving through a nitroglycerin plant!”
October 4th, 2017 at 8:37 am
In the Marines I often pulled targets in the “butts” on the Know-Distance range while people were shooting at 500 yards. ALL you can hear is the supersonic snap of the bullet – would never hear the rifle itself over loud music. (Might be different with the echo off a tall building)
October 4th, 2017 at 2:41 pm
Odd, the sound level at ground level at the Mandalay, and at the concert field, are near identical, when recorded from a cell phone.