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[CharlesHarris]

MB,

In the USA we have other options, and the course I have pursued is to use low-powered ammunition in rifles of the popular "Cowboy" calibers, notably .38 Special and .45 Colt, which produce a mild report with standard pressure, lead bullet ammunition when fired in a rifle-length barrel.

While not "silent" in the motion picture gangster movie sense, a .38 wadcutter target load or .45 Colt lead Cowboy load fired from a rifle produces a modest "~THUNK!" akin to banging the bottom of a plastic 5-gallon bucket with a wooden drumstick. You can shoot it without ear protection, and from more than 100-yards away it doesn't sound like a gun. There is no "crack!" to scare game or disturb the neighbors. Ordinary lead revolver ammunition exits the rifle barrel at about 270 m/s and penetrate through whitetail deer broadside. The ideal garden gun...

Taken top the extreme a single-shot rifle in .455 Webley produces a rifle velocity of about 220 m/s and makes little more noise than an air rifle, until the bullet smacks the target. THAT makes more noise than the gun going off. Results are identical to a Pyramid Air .45 cal. air rifle, charged with a SCUBA tank. My neighbor has one. When I found out what it cost I decided to have a .455 barrel purpose-built to fit my H&R .410 shotgun, for less cost. Impossible to do legally in UK, unfortunately,but the stuff of adult fantasy some might enjoy reading about.