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There are exceptions to every generalization, and this exception is pretty cool. The Welrod MkIIA is a semiautomatic pistol, designed for covert operations and
by avhon1 7y ago
There are exceptions to every generalization, and this exception is pretty cool. The Welrod MkIIA is a semiautomatic pistol, designed for covert operations and assassinations, that is genuinely movie-quiet.
Ian McCollum (Forgotten Weapons) has an excellent video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d12AjvEsaHg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d12AjvEsaHg
"When it's properly set up, this is as close as you get to an actual `silent gun`. You can, by all accounts, be within about 15 feet of this thing and not recognize that a firearm has discharged."
- pachico 7y agoI recognized the name because of some video games I played in the past.
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- reitzensteinm 7y agoNote that it's still 122dB. That's quiet for a firearm, which is normally 140dB or more, but still louder than a car horn. I think the proper way to read the quote is that you'll definitely hear the sound, but it won't necessarily be obvious that it has come from a firearm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welrod https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welrod https://www.chem.purdue.edu/chemsafety/Training/PPETrain/dblevels.htm https://www.chem.purdue.edu/chemsafety/Training/PPETrain/dbl...
- roel_v 7y agoWikipedia says 122db, but I don't think that's correct. Other sources say 73db, and describe the sound as less loud than that of the bullet impacting the woid of the target, at least with fresh baffles. (Too lazy to include links, first page google results)
- reitzensteinm 7y agoAh, Wikipedia also says that volume elsewhere in the article. The linked Forgotten Weapons goes in to detail about the rubber seals, which the projectile pierces through when the weapon is fired. The rubber partially reseals, but after a dozen shots or so the weapon degrades to the performance of a normal silenced pistol. This probably explains the discrepancy. It is indeed very quiet, and my interpretation of the quote is wrong.
- topspin 7y agoA modern equivalent based on an M&P 9mm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aljJ2jPTa1c&feature=youtu.be&t=455 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aljJ2jPTa1c&feature=youtu.be... It is Hollywood quiet.
- IshKebab 7y agoYou can't really tell volume from a youtube video for obvious reasons.
- quickthrowman 7y agoYou can’t tell the SPL from a YouTube video but you can clearly tell the silencer reduces the attack and sustain of the gunshot noise by a substantial degree. It also doesn’t echo as much.
- topspin 7y agoThat's obviously the point of the progression from unsuppressed to maximum suppression; to convey the relative amplitude.
- rtkaratekid 7y agoThat was insanely quiet. I’ve never heard a suppressor that quiet before!
- emilfihlman 7y ago>The Welrod MkIIA is a semiautomatic pistol It's not. It's a manually operated pistol.