On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 18:44:02 -0500, "RogerN"
wrote:

"Gunner Asch" wrote in message
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On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:19:07 -0500, "RogerN"
wrote:

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This could also double as a ground hunting blind
that I can move during season. The tunnel I would shoot through could
have
chambers to help deaden the sound, and the opening could extend to block
the
sound more on the neighbors side.

That would work. Expensive..but having a shooting house can be a very
good thing. A lot of the old time gun makers/writers had a bench with
a flip up window so they could shoot winter or summer. But the dirt
is likely to be cheaper to do.

On the other hand, I have heard that I can load 300AAC Blackout with 220
grain bullets and go subsonic. I'm guessing that would quite it down some.
My shooting area varies, to get any distance I have to go to the front yard,
and that's not the best place for a huge wall of dirt. I wonder if it would
work to make a sort of silencer but it would be a tube of sound deadening
materials, a sort of muffler you shoot through instead of threading on the
barrel.

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One of my uncles told me a story about a homemade silencer. He taped
an oatmeal box filled with shredded newspaper to the end of his .30-06
to deer hunt. How he saw anything over the box beats me. Anyway, he
shot the thing. He said the noise was like an atomic bomb and he
couldn't see anything through the cloud of confetti. He's lucky he
didn't burn down the woods.

That uncle died a month or two ago, aged 90.

Pete Keillor