Loudest Muzzle Blast

SwampFox · Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 11:55 am Post subject: Loudest Muzzle Blast

What was the loudest muzzle blast you have ever heard, civilian only please. Describe the gun, load and event, if you can do so.
Best,
Ed

Dawgdad · Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 3:07 pm Post subject: Re: Loudest Muzzle Blast

Remington Corlokt sabot 12 ga deer slug. It may have ben the tin roof shooting shack i was shooting it from but two of those was all I wanted.

Very loud great big kick too.

note the Copper Solid sabots are a lot easier on the ears, the shoulder and the wallet.

SwampFox · Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 3:30 pm Post subject: Re: Loudest Muzzle Blast

Yep, I have heard stories about that sabot load being stout.
Best,
Ed

glockman55 · Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 3:49 pm Post subject: Re: Loudest Muzzle Blast

My 7mm. mag shot out of a ground blind with the muzzle brake open..
Not a smart thing to do.

Weinbender · Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 5:06 pm Post subject: Re: Loudest Muzzle Blast

My .300 mag in a dead still day from my truck box!!!!Ears are still ringing!!
Or my Marlin Goose Gun with 36" bbl full choke with super magnum 3" shells also on a very quite day(no wind at all). Now that was loud!!

Dan

SwampFox · Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 5:14 pm Post subject: Re: Loudest Muzzle Blast

The 264 and 7mm RM both have a reputation for being pretty loud, especially with a case full of fast burning powder and a light bullet.
Best,
Ed

PaulS · Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 2:44 am Post subject: Re: Loudest Muzzle Blast

The loudest muzzle blast I have ever encountered was from a 5 inch black powder pistol. It was discharged about six inches from my ear.... and dropped me to the ground. It was hours before I could hear anything!
My younger brother wasn't too bright and we didn't go shooting together after that incident.

SwampFox · Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 5:36 am Post subject: Re: Loudest Muzzle Blast

Paul,
That sounds about like the high velocity shotgun shell stuck in a gun while "teaching" someone to shoot, both are real ignorant tricks by "not so bright" people. One of the times I have been shot was by a not so bright person who thought a good trick would be to shoot a can from my hand when my back was turned, he missed the can. Needless to say, he never saw my back again.
Best,
Ed

denis · Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 4:47 pm Post subject: Re: Loudest Muzzle Blast

Lyman Great Plains rifle, .54 caliber patched roundball, 100 grains Pyrodex.

I'm not sure why, but muzzleloaders just seem louder than centerfire. Maybe it's the sound spectrum -- perhaps fewer high frequencies with the BP.

gelandangan · Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 5:02 pm Post subject: Re: Loudest Muzzle Blast

My short barreled Ruger 77MKII CR in 223 REM..
The loudest in comparison to all my other guns from .22 to 45-70.

All my mates thought I am shooting magnum caliber based on the sound.
Apparently a lot of the powder finish their combustion OUTSIDE the short barrel and thus create the loud noise.

Doublejs · Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 7:28 pm Post subject: Re: Loudest Muzzle Blast

A Winchester 7mm mag with the BOSS system. I had shot it at the range with hearing protection a lot until deer season. A handload with 150 gr. Nosler BT, H4831, etc..
I was sitting in a field one afternoon during a whiteout....then the snow lightened up and out walks a nice buck approximately 125 yards away.
I remember thinking prior to the shot "should I put plugs in?" but it was cold and I had a thick knit hat on...it will be alright...wrong
To this day, my left ear will just start ringing for no reason. As for the right ear, I think it was the way my head was angled when I fired and the hat that saved it from permanent damage!
That darn BOSS system, it would shoot, but was the loudest thing!!!!

Dimitri · Super Member Joined: Nov 25, 2005 Posts: 5947

I always shoot with at least soft mold-able ear plugs with 95% percent of the time wearing the larger ear muff style with the plugs.

For that matter only ever shot once with a 12 ga without any ear protection so I am not sure I can judge any "sound" I may have heard from a gun blast properly for which seemed the loudest.

Dimitri

ElyBoy · Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:22 pm Post subject: Re: Loudest Muzzle Blast

My .44Mag 29-2 with it's 4" barrel in our pistol blockhouse at the Club.
I swear I can see the pea rock wall bowing in when I shoot big game loads with it.

Eric

Pumpkinslinger · Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 1:55 am Post subject: Re: Loudest Muzzle Blast

I remember clearing the firing line on either side of me while firing a Mini-14 with a flash suppressor. Nobody believed it was a .223 at first.

dust54 · Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 5:21 am Post subject: Re: Loudest Muzzle Blast

My AMT Action Express .50. Turned all the heads on the range the day I shot that one!! Brought the dust and dirt from the overhead!!