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How does a silencer work on a gun?

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Answer #1

My answer may (most likely) won’t be correct. If a silencer is on a gun it’s gonna make you a silent killer. So say you were to go out hunting. You shoot, there’s no noise, so you don’t spook the animals and they don’t know what’s coming. Verses having a gun with no silencer the noise of the gun being fired would echo through the woods and spook off any close and far targets.

Answer #2

I’m pretty sure he meant like, how does it silence the gunshot. But you’re right.

Answer #3

Haha yeah i kinda get that part, i went bow hunting a couple of times before… but i would like to know the science part behind a silencer… thanx anyway!!

Answer #4

A gun silencer the rapidly expanding gas makes when a gun is fired A silencer screws on to the end of the barrel and has a huge volume compared to the barrel (20 or 30 times greater). This allows the Pressure behind the­ bullet to have a larger space to expand into. So the pressure of falls significantly. Therefore, the sound of the gun firing is much softer.

Answer #5

I think it would still spook animals. I’ve heard silenced guns, you can still hear them, it’s just muffled. But it certainly wouldn’t go as far.

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