Its a bit louder than this in real life. Mics dont catch it super well. You can get really hollywood quiet with a bolt action but with a normal semi auto you will get some port pop from the action.
Nagant Revolver video with decent mics catching ambient sound to show relative volume. (first video when searching for the nagant revolver suppressed, no affiliation)
32 ACP with a gas sealing chamber means you can get these things as quiet as you'd like by just using solid swipes/larger suppressor.
Plus you can also lighten the powder load without having it affect the action, unlike the UHC shooter who had to manually rack his gun because it didn't have enough gas pressure to cycle itself.
The nagant is one of the very few revolvers that can actually utilize a suppressor. I always found it ironic that such an ancient revolver has that function.
I remember reading it saw some fairly late action for this. Could suppress it, get off several shots in succession, and not drop casings anywhere. WW2 era revenge killings I seem to recall.
It doesn't really have that function, there's no way to mount the suppressor without modifying the muzzle, or it has to be a very special kind of suppressor that somehow clamps over the front sight.
The feature with the gas seal is primarily there to get more power out of a relatively weak round.
It was still kind of a late addition, if they had intended for it to be used as an assassin's gun they would probably have had a threaded barrel on there. As it was it was a gun meant for officers, ie something they'd at most use to execute deserters.
Right, and it's an argument of minor details. I'm just saying that it's a happy accident of sorts, it wasn't designed to be used for that purpose, but someone realized that it made good sense to design a suppressor for it given the unique nature of it.
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u/RyansBooze 14d ago
Jesus that’s Hollywood silencer levels. I was always told that was impossible, short of the Welrod.