Loudest gun you've been around or fired?

[sonick808]

My m44. Been around some boomers, but for some reason, the M44 with old canned ammo just rattles your teeth more than most.

 

[Caliper_Mi]

I ate 15 bowels of real spicy chilli last night

I sure hope you mean BOWLS...

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bowels


On topic... Loudest I have are the Mosin Carbines, M44 and M38, so nothing very extreme. Deep boom and fun of course.
Would love the chance to fire a big bore safari round or .50 BMG...

 

[USAF_Vet]

1) 105mm Howitzer on a AC-130 gunship. Big bada-boom.

2) .50 BMG full auto M-2 machine gun.

 

[SkyDaver]

Jumping right to the end without reading the full thread:
A Mark 42 5"/54
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/5"/54_caliber_Mark_42_gun
Ka-boom!

 

[P5 Guy]

AR15

Most annoying was a guy shooting a short barreled AR at the handgun range. That is one gawd awful high pitched CRACK.

 

[parsimonious_instead]

As I walked up and down the firing line at Knob Creek, I was shocked at how much of the concussion of a .50BMG rifle I felt, even through doubled-up ear pro. I even felt it in my chest.

 

[SUMIKITO]

Loudest handgun you've ever fired

A Ruger Blackhawk .45 Colt cut down to a snubby 2 inch barrel round butt with lanyard ring firing +P .45 Colt loads 260gr. jacketed at 1400fps.No .357 or .44mag comes even close!Tremendous muzzle blast and a fireball as big as a beachball.Definitely makes you shudder as you touch-off those rounds.No not my pistol,but a friends who also cut-down his extra Ruger Old Army percussion black powder revolver to the same 2 inch snub configuration.Has a blast I would describe more as a WaKaBoooom!! and a fireball like no other I have ever seen.He uses nothing but real black FFFg.Talk about big boomers,those 2 pistols above are something else!!!

 

[vtuck2]

.300 H&H magnum. I had a mini-14 that was almost as bad.

V

 

[Salmoneye]

Ported 10" .45-70 T/C Contender with my handloads...

 

[Bentonville]

S&W 500 in the shortest barrel they offer. I could feel the vibrations in the bottoms of my feet standing on dirt. With ear muffs and foam plugs I could hear the echo across the hills for two or three seconds. Ask me about muzzle filp.

 

[SlowFuse]

308 AR pistol with something around a 10" barrel.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

.50 BMG Barrett

After that, everything else is tame, meek and mild.

 

[SaxonPig]

Loudest I have been around was a 7.62mm mini gun.

Loudest I have shot was a Ruger Blackhawk in 30 Carbine.

 

[JohnM]

Yeah, that Blackhawk in 30 Carbine is wicked.
Loudest thing I have by a long shot!

 

[Lonerider357]

Twin M-2's The Navy didn't offer ear pugs!

 

[walker944]

I would have to say the .44 mag Ruger Blackhawk that my niece's dumbass boyfriend fired about a foot from my ear, and directly to my left, back in 1983. My ears rang for about a year (literally) after that. That incident is what probably kickstarted my tinitus. I never went shooting with that idiot again.

 

[JohnM]

Navy didn't offer ear pugs!

Can't count that military stuff
Best we ever could do was some cotton wadding from the medics.
Yeah, it could get bad.

 

[Quoheleth]

I was shooting pistols one afternoon when a guy takes the bench next to me with a Marlin Guide Gun in .45/70 with ported barrel. The muzzle was just behind the roof overhang of our shooting bench so the roof was deflecting both muzzle and port blast. It was so bad after 4 blasts I had a headache. Two more rounds and my teeth hurt. He still had 14 rounds to go, so I packed up and left.

Took two Advil and 4 hours for that headache to disappear.

Q

 

[Taurus 617 CCW]

Seems like my buddy's Moisin Nagant always blows the rust off the roof at the firing range. May not be the loudest- but it feels like it.

I had a similar experience. Russian M44 Mosin Nagant. Short barrel, large fireball at the muzzle, and a huge boom. It was lots of fun!

 

[ApacheCoTodd]

I fired my AMAC .50 cal from the furthest bay to the right at a range without accounting for the block wall to my right... Good golly, miss molly! I thought double protection was enough - absolutely not!

 

[splattergun]

next to a 50BMG at an indoor range. Seems to seperate your soul from body for a nano second.

 

[Buckyt]

Loudest gun I have experienced

I got to shoot a 458 Win Mag built for elephant hunter with 20" barrel. It was the loudest sporting gun I ever fired.
Being the weapons qualification officer in my unit, I shot many rounds thru all of our weapons. It probably was the 105mm recoiless rifle (tank weapon). You didn't want to be in front of, or behind this baby!

 

[kimbershot]

.50 cal barrett with muzzle break. felt the concussion from over 30 ft. away.

 

[Lee D]

Armalite .50

 

[beatledog7]

CIWS