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Originally Posted by mr.derp
No it's not. My dads remington 700 25-06 (I only have a measly .245) is louder than my remington 11-87 12 gauge magnum. Shotguns aren't the loudest guns around and they silence louder rifles like 30-06s or .308s and I wouldn't doubt .50 cals. If they were called loudguns instead of shotguns, maybe it would be an oxymoron.
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Big difference, do you know the actual mechanics behind how a Sound Suppressor works?
The simple version is that they capture the muzzle gasses that propell the round out of the chamber and dissipate it more slowly rather than have it all escape at once, for that to work you need a good solid slug to act as a plug to prevent the gasses escaping past the round as its fired
Since a shotty thats using lead shot etc its not one solid mass thus rendering it kind of useless, yes the shot is contained in a plastic cup essentially when shot there is still the problem of the seal not being good enough, there is much more to it than that and why a shotgun isn't good for suppressing but there is a very simple explanation
You could potentially suppress a shotgun firing deer slug since it would give a better seal but it could be potentially problematic to do it
Secondly sound suppressor's only help reduce the sound coming out of the muzzle to a tolerable level and change its pitch to something people don't recognize instantly as a gunshot you still have to treat the problem of the supersonic crack the bullet itself creates by lowering the rounds velocity to fall under the speed of sound (either done by increasing the weight of the projectile or the amount of propellant or both)
That would be why the rifle sounds louder than the shotgun, the crack of the bullet itself mixed with the sound of the gun itself firing
