At the start of private Ryan the bullets made "zip" noises ... At a range that they would have most definitely been supersonic .... A "crack" would have been far more realistic. !
Re: Musings on the sound of a bullet
Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2013 10:11 pm
by whoowhoop
The crack would have been the noise my ass cheeks were making.....
Re: Musings on the sound of a bullet
Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2013 10:15 pm
by meles meles
Maybe ours tonight too, oomans. They're out to get us...
* Signals the alarum !!!! *
Re: Musings on the sound of a bullet
Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2013 10:33 pm
by zzr1100
Hats off to anyone who has heard them fired at them in anger !!
I've been in a situation where they were fired at someone else in anger and came far far to close to
me in the process ... Not fun !
Re: Musings on the sound of a bullet
Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2013 10:34 pm
by meles meles
zzr1100 wrote:Hats off to anyone who has heard them fired at them in anger !!
We'll keep out battle bowler on tonight, ooman.
Re: Musings on the sound of a bullet
Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2013 11:12 pm
by 450 Martini
What i find most intresting is the sound of subsonic blackpowder rounds passing overhead in the butts at Kingsbury. a 577 minie bullet sounds like a angry swarm of bees flying overhead. The Martini henry sounds like that as well. The butts crew had never experianced these calibres before and they were causing some concern on the radio as they were blasting "massive holes" in the target board.
A old friend of mine from a airborne regiment who had seen it all once told me the worst sound you can ever hear is crack CRACK... THUMP
Re: Musings on the sound of a bullet
Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 12:01 am
by zzr1100
I suppose hearing crack and thump is better than not hearing anything at all as a supersonic round hits you !!
Re: Musings on the sound of a bullet
Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 11:24 am
by Blackstuff
meles meles wrote:"Silenced" guns don't go "phut" either...
Oddly they do on camera!
Probably just because the camera can't pick up the supersonic crack as the bullet goes down range
Re: Musings on the sound of a bullet
Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 11:56 am
by mr smith
Those mythbusters chappies tested sound modded pistol and the sound used in the movies was pretty damn spot on.
Re: Musings on the sound of a bullet
Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 1:09 pm
by Chuck
Aye those minnie bullet thingies with the CRACK / THUMP ( are the business, especially at distance.
As my old boy used to it's the one you don't hear that gets you.