Whatever the rifle or SBR or braced handgun may be.
I’ve been using an unsuppressable 9x19 carbine hoping I have time to grab electronic ear pro but am switching to a .223 rifle and working out the options.
Also curious what others were doing.
Electronic muffs hang from the door knob by the rifle.
Suppressor, but if time allows I’ll put on some ear pro.
I have 3 guns for my main HD options. One has a suppressor buy the other two don’t.
I don’t like suppressed ARs at all anymore. 14.5" Colt Carbine, No can.
Sometimes it’s suppressed, sometimes it’s not. I very much doubt if “things” happen I will have time to screw around with ear pro.
If it’s suppressed, wonderful. If not, just gonna have to deal with it. Could be worse, could be a Biden double barrel shotgun bark.
My current go to is a 6933. From time to time it’s a MP5.
The way it is for me, if very short notice there’s trouble, I’ll only have a handgun. With just a few more seconds I can grab ears and a long gun. Wife has earpro nearby, too.
This makes me hesitate to use my 16 inch .223 rifle with K-can for HD, making it longer and heavier, and just use the flash hider instead.
Can 100%.
I can’t assume I will have time to futz with ears, not can I assume my wife and kids will have time either.
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SBR with a short can, and a pistol in AIWB if there’s time to slip on pants.
That’s my thought. A can is still about as loud indoors as shooting a 9mm pistol in my experience. Who knows for sure? Unless someone has had to shoot it out with an M4 in his house, we’re all just speculating was the best answer is.
AR pistol, unsuppressed, as bed side gun. Multiple 9mm pistols near by as well. Don’t really plan on using ear pro. If it comes to it, I doubt I’d even notice the shooting; didn’t in the Army, don’t while hunting. If I’m going to take time to put some bit of gear on, it’s not going to be muffs, but a damn plate carrier.
This is why I keep getting hearing aid ads in my mailbox.
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I’ve been in enough indoor ranges and shoot houses to have a fair idea. It’s what made me stop thinking shotguns were a good idea.
And if the assailant shoots, or my wife shoots, the can on my rifle won’t protect my ears from that.
Now that’s a good point. One or two seconds for ear pro or 5 seconds to throw on armor? If I had the time I’d want the armor then the ear pro.
I have enough experience with this to avoid an unsuppressed rifle, particularly a SBR, indoors like the plague. A unsuppressed Mk18 sucks to shoot inside a structure even with ears on.
Even a pistol is very loud. I once shot a 1911 out of a Toyota with no earpro, and I initially thought my radio coincidentally died, because the chatter went silent for a moment. Or so it seemed.
Ron3, I’m not really concerned that an attacker won’t have a sound suppressor. 5.56 reliably suppresses enemy weapons down to ambient levels, and if I’m unsuccessful at that, then the bullets coming my way represent a much greater hazard than their muzzle report. That’s kinda the point of being armed in the first place.
I’m thinking with suppressor is the way to go.
And yea, if I have a couple extra seconds after grabbing it I should be grabbing staged armor before staged ear & eye pro.
The one thing that SWAT guys, I think, said (that is a valid suppressor reason) was that they could tell if it was threat gun fire verses their suppressed gun fire if they were clearing different areas.
If I ran a can, my son would still hear it and think someone was shooting at least a pistol in the house. It’s just not at all like Zero Dark Thirty portrayed it.
My SBR has a suppressor on it. If I have time, I will use my electronic ear pro.
Where I live, 0% can. Can’t have it. That helps narrow it down.
-TL
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