Dennis wrote:
>
> My personal interest is in a quieter handgun round for coyote at
> close range, of course there aren't any bullet weights suitable. .22
> just makes em angry and 9mm is overkill and overloud. When surprised
> you never get a chance to put in earplugs!
>
Big, heavy, slow bullets tend to have lower muzzle blast/report than
small, light, fast ones. Within that, fast powder makes less noise than
slow, because the pressure is already dropping off by the time the
bullet leaves the bore. Think .45 Long Colt loaded with a 240 grain
cast bullet, but only 650 feet per second or so over Bulleseye or Red
Dot -- still plenty to drop a coyote, if you place the bullet right, but
it won't blast your eardrums (and the same specs over black powder will
be even easier on your ears, because of much lower overall pressure,
though there'll be a lot more cleanup). Another good option, if you
only have a .38 or .357, is an inverted hollow base wadcutter over (I
happen to know this one) 2.7 to 3 grains of Bullseye. Fast enough to be
accurate, but easy on the ears, and the big hollow will expand even at
this low velocity.
For automatics, you have the problem of needing enough recoil to cycle
the action; there are subsonic 9 mm loads that will do the job, but I
still wouldn't call those quiet...
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