What kind of suppressed weapon would you use to hunt deer?
Any firearm that will save what little hearing I have left. I wear electronic wear ear muffs when I gun hunt for 20 years. That way I can hear a deer a longer way off and save my hearing. The damn squirrels do drive me crazy to.
I think what everyone is missing is that a suppressor (silencer) on a centerfire firearm doesn't make the noise go away. The noise level is just lowered so there in no hearing loss.
I been doing a lot of suppressor use in my R&D work with the 300 BO the last 4 months. The sound doesn't go away as my wife 700 ft. away hears me shoot every time even when she's in the house.
It's only dreamtime when people think it'll be a poachers dream come true. The sound is still there just less of it.
As the report states the suppressed sound can be heard a long way off.
A suppressor won't work very well on a revolver due to the cylinder gap.
On automatic in 45ACP and 9MM a suppressor lowers the noise to a comfortable load noise level. In doors ear muffs is still required.
It's not like in the crazy movies where there's no sound. It doesn't work that way as this is real life.
One last point. The suppressor always lowers the noise level about 50% on the 2nd shot than on the 1st shot. If I understand the workings correctly the 1st shot gas are still in the suppressor chambers when the 2nd shot is fired to buffer the sound waves. But this only happens on quick follow up shots. Won't work after a period of time delay.
So even for poachers the true noise level is on the 2nd shot but even that is still rather loud and can be heard for a long way.
Now 22LR the suppressed noise level is noticeable. But gee poaching is illegal. So the that fear goes away for me.