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Muzzle flash png smoke1/25/2024 I feel that in order to do so, I need to find a way to tone down the ground-level noise a bit and am looking for some input/advice. I'm just trying to remain as low-key as possible until I'm totally legit. I'm currently in the process of acquiring a State Display Operators License, & am not yet BATFE approved, therefore I test-fire everything as it's made. Fortunately, I live in a small neighborhood several miles outside city limits, where all homes are situated on 2 acre lots. This, of course, is an effort to preempt a possible open complaint, or even a confrontation, from someone living nearby. Too, about a month or two ago, I began to limit the number & frequency of my test shots to about 3-5 shells (in volley fashion) about once every week or two, and within a half-hour of sunset. No appreciable reduction in decibel level was noticed. Is it possible my BP is too hot, am I lifting too hard, are the shells too heavy or could it even be the type and length of mortar tube I'm using? BTW, I was using 3" ID carbon-fiber wrapped ABS pipes of 16-20 inches in racks until a few weeks ago when I decided that burying them up to about 6" above the ground might absorb some of the sound (& certainly improve the safety of using said material). Is there a way to attenuate or abate the sound that emanates from a mortar tube? On a 3" round shell (I've yet to shoot anything larger) the sound is best described as a "thick, deep & resonating boom," and nothing like the "cracking" sound I hear when others lift similar-size/weight shells. If my suspicions are correct, the sound produced by my lift charges are a lot more troublesome than those of my shell breaks. I've been getting a vibe lately that my hobby is perhaps beginning to wear on the nerves of 2-3 of my closest neighbors.
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