The word subsonic when applied to ammo has almost nothing to do with how much noise it makes at the firearm end. It is relative to how fast the projectile travels on the way to the TARGET end. In the case of subsonic ammo, it travels slower than the speed of sound (~1100 fps) meaning that the SOUND of the gun going off gets to the target BEFORE the projectile.

Long guns, hand guns, old guns, shotguns, don't matter. The more often firearms go BANG around unprotected ears, the closer the shooter is to a pair of hearing aids (or injecting the word "huh?" into a lot of conversations). Been shooting for nearly 50 years, and wearing hearing aids for the last 20.

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