Loudest gun you've been around or fired?

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Friend let me shoot his .378 Weatherby, WOW! There was a great article i the American Rifleman many years ago. It is about a person who went to Africa on safari. He ordered a .460 Weatherby and had someone sight it in for him. He had not fired it and came upon, I think it was Water Bufallo. The author, a guide, then describes the result of the following three shots. Very funny but also very tragic.
 
I was hunting last fall and took a shot with my buddy's 300 win mag with a muzzle break...outside, but no muffs...My ears were ringing for 3 days after! I had never shot anything with a muzzle break and was not ready for it. I have a 7mm Rem mag so its not like I'm not used to a loud rifle either.
 
One of our helicopters got permission to fire his M61 Vulcan about 300 yards of the side of the aircraft carrier I was assigned to. He shot a 2 or 3 second burst at 6000 rounds of 20mm per minute. It sounded like someone had belched into a microphone pluged into a 1000 watt amp turned up to 11.
 
The loudest gun I own is a really crappy .22 revolver... it blows my 12 gauge out of the water, weird gun. I cant really say which is the loudest gun I have fired... they all seem to hitting around the same decible
 
Vulcan Phalanx 20mm six-barrel Close-In Weapon System (CIWS) - sounds like a giant chainsaw.

We also shot the 76mm Oto Melara, but I was always far enough away to be unable to judge to noise level.

All this was on an FFG-7 class ship: the USS RENTZ

Regards,
Dirty Bob
 
38 Smith and Wesson Special, fired 6" from my right ear, through a Colt Officers Model revolver.

It was loud enough to make me fall to my knees, felt like an ice pick had been driven into my ear drum. I actually rubbed my ear and looked at the fingers expecting to see blood!

Lost the ability to process higher frequency sounds on my right ear ,about in the same range as some high pitched birds, and almost all insects. It's also affected my ability to locate the direction of some higher frequency sounds (both ears).

Any hearing loss in your younger years will come back to haunt you later in your life, the natural aging loss of hearing is bad enough.

Make sure to use protection, muffs and plugs, espcially with handguns and rifles, but don't forget loud auto engines and smaller home owner gasoline engines too!
 
I ate 15 bowels of real spicy chilli last night my woman fixed for supper. I cannot say anything more on what happened last night but,woman went laid on couch and dog was yelping most of night.
 
Flash bang in a housing unit while working with the BOP. Wasn't the weapon that sent it down range, but the detonation of the projectile.......

The Dove
 
M109A1 155mm or M.L.R.S. ( not sure if the second counts) all year long at FT. Sill

BOOM ARTILLERY!!!
 
M82A1, Barrett 50BMG. That's an infrared thermal imaging scope. The eyepiece is a similar to a television screen that creates an image just from the heat signiture. Doesn't matter whether it's day or night, the picture is the same. With it i was able to see the bullets that I had fired inside the berm. They were buried probably two feet deep in the dirt and it looked like they were on top of the ground.


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I've shot .50 M2s. Hung a couple of 4.2 mortar rounds and shot a 106 recoiless. Was very close and down range when some MRLS went off and flew overhead. That certainly scared me the most since we did not know it was there getting of off trucks in the dark and an invasion was going on at the time. I was about a kilometer away form a Patriot going off and that was thunder of god stuff even from that far away. Closest I can come to describing it is it was like reverse lightning.
 
S&W 500 short barrel handgun. (.50 caliber)

Loud and powerful when I shot it, and I could feel the blowback from it standing in the next bay (separated by screen) when my friend shot it. It was hers.
 
Up until last weekend, I'd say the loudest gun I've shot/heard was a 4" Taurus Tracker in 44 mag w/ported barrel. At the range these guys were shooting some kind of AR in 308 and it was very loud even with hearing protectors on.
 
Another vote for the Barrett M82A1.

Shot next to a guy at a range once who had a Winchester 7mm Rem Mag with some sort of old break on it that was very sharp "cracky". He wasn't wearing any ear protection either.
 
M110A1 8" howitzer, TOW missile, MLRS... all would have been really loud but of course I ALWAYS wore hearing protection... yeah right... now have about 20% hearing, but VA says my hearing was shot before I went into the military...
 
Loudest I've personally been near was an AR-50 with a brake. Gent let me shoot it too! Awesome rifle. I took 3 shots at an 18"x18" steel plate at 600 yards and hit it all 3 times. Blew my mind, I'd only fired a .30-06 maybe a half dozen times in my life, and maybe a box through a .30-30. My life with rifles was with .22's.
 
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