Well done on the suspense at the end there. Had me like "Oh shit oh shit!" You want to say don't do it but when you really put yourself into the story, that option may be better than what seems like the inevitable alternative. Reading on.
He and the others screw silencers onto their rifles. Unluckily for me, we have yet to find any that will fit on my revolver so it looks like I'm stuck to my bow for now.
Revolvers cannot be silenced. That's absolute, pure hollywood BS. Now, you CAN put a silencer on a revolver (though it has to be a custom revolver, as they don't thread revolver barrels normally specifically because it's pointless), but the silencer won't suppress the sound effectively. Rather than a good +95% sound suppression like most suppressed weapons, revolvers allow gas to escape from the cylinder that holds the round being fired. Because that gas escapes (thus making noise), only a tiny portion of the sound generated from gas escaping the barrel through a suppressor would actually be muffled. Thus, a silencer on a revolver would cut down the sound it would make MAYBE 15-20%.
But revolvers are exceptionally noisy, so even a low caliber will still sound like a cannon. (I've owned two revolvers to date. I know from first hand experience that even a little .22 revolver -my first pistol- would make more noise than my old S&W .40 cal semi-auto pistol that I sold some years back.)
That said: The character in the story might not know that. (He'll figure it out if he ever goes to do the bottle-packed-with-steel-wool silencing trick though, but that's even more advanced gun knowledge than "revolvers can't be silenced", so he'd have to hear about that ghetto silencing method from someone else.)
Well done on the suspense at the end there. Had me like "Oh shit oh shit!" You want to say don't do it but when you really put yourself into the story, that option may be better than what seems like the inevitable alternative. Reading on.
6666621 Glad you liked it! More suspense and plot twists on the way!
Revolvers cannot be silenced.
That's absolute, pure hollywood BS.
Now, you CAN put a silencer on a revolver (though it has to be a custom revolver, as they don't thread revolver barrels normally specifically because it's pointless), but the silencer won't suppress the sound effectively.
Rather than a good +95% sound suppression like most suppressed weapons, revolvers allow gas to escape from the cylinder that holds the round being fired.
Because that gas escapes (thus making noise), only a tiny portion of the sound generated from gas escaping the barrel through a suppressor would actually be muffled.
Thus, a silencer on a revolver would cut down the sound it would make MAYBE 15-20%.
But revolvers are exceptionally noisy, so even a low caliber will still sound like a cannon.
(I've owned two revolvers to date. I know from first hand experience that even a little .22 revolver -my first pistol- would make more noise than my old S&W .40 cal semi-auto pistol that I sold some years back.)
There's no point to putting a suppressor on a revolver.
Well, there is actually ONE specialty revolver in the world on which a silencer will actually work, as ~I believe~ it was specifically designed for this purpose.
That said: The character in the story might not know that. (He'll figure it out if he ever goes to do the bottle-packed-with-steel-wool silencing trick though, but that's even more advanced gun knowledge than "revolvers can't be silenced", so he'd have to hear about that ghetto silencing method from someone else.)
The proper term for the ammo containing section of a revolver is "cylinder".
Wow, already people dead. Not afraid to kill off characters I see. Good, I like this guy already just because of that.
That... was intense
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