Mouse Farts
Yes, I recognize and readily acknowledge it’s just a figure of speech, but since we’re hitting the silencer myths head-on with reckless abandon, I went “there” and dug into the science.
Unfortunately, there is no published and peer-reviewed study on the decibel level of mouse and bunny farts. I did find one where the composition of said gases was examined in detail. Yes, really. Your tax dollars at work. Anyway, we’ll have to use the powers of computational forecasting. The best estimates science has to offer are as follows:
Mouse gas passing: 0 to 10 dB. That’s right on the cusp of human hearing capability, so for practical purposes, we probably can’t hear it anyway. And given the minute volumes of material involved, it’s probably not detectable by the nose either.
As for bunnies, the computers calculate a probable range of 10-25 dB, and maybe as high as 30dB given perfect conditions. I have no idea what “perfect conditions” for this kind of thing are, so we’ll just roll with it. That sound level is in the range of human whispering, so if you have a rabbit, turn down the TV and listen closely.
Sadly, no suppressor-and-caliber combination comes anywhere close to this range, as the lowest I can find in all my research is still in the 110 dB neighborhood.
Figure of speech busted, I guess?
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