Silence is golden!! Which is the quietest PCP rifle

Personally, from the 5 tier ones I have owned….Taipans.

What I have not heard the most if any sound at all as a bystander were electronic Daystates with a bigger than average size can on their ends. Bullpup was it the Pulsar I think and Air Wolf and Red Wolf. 

Yeah, a pretty subjective question you've got there !

As from the factory, or with an oil filter sized suppressor, maximum power or enough power to spit the pellet out to make it fly well ? Please explain...

From the the shooters position, my RTI Prophet Compact is pretty quiet with the Daystate baffles in the shroud. Like you say, mostly what I hear is the mechanical noise (not really a "pinging" sound!) from the receiver and a very muffled report from the barrel. My Pulsar is fairly quiet in the mid pellet fps setting.



Mike

The quietest I had was a Red Wolf HP .177 and it was also extremely accurate.

Jeez, what a question. I assume you know that longer barrel, lower power, lower veolcity, smaller callibre, high efficiency plenum and reg, these all contribute to lower sound. From personal experience, if sound is a key factor, then always choose something that you can add a, or change the moderator on it. That you you can always improve without selling the gun or needing a gunsmith.

Second key factor is calibr and power. If you need real power and low sound, you need long barrel, which rules out the rifle format, and point you straight to bulpup config. The best thing then is to get an Edgun r5 long or superlong in .25 or .30 with larger plenum and huma reg. But very hard to find. Alternative would be a taipan long in .25. 
But overall most silent accurate gun would be a taipan long .22 (have not seen a long in .177 yet) with an additional moderator on it. And it has good trigger and is accurate. Get the std if the long would make it too long, I am sure you can tweak it to be just as silent but slightly less powerful. Keepin mind it is not the lightest. If you want the same but lighter, get an Edgun R3 .22 std with one of donnys custom 1/2 unf adapters and a big can on it: mine was silent light and accurate. But probably again may be hard to find.

so as blackpaw said, taipan.

the quietest gun i have atm is a 'double silenced' prod with a sumo .. so, lower power + shrouded + a moderator = super stealthy ..

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The quietest gun I ever didn’t hear was a Allen Zasadney custom shrouded .177 Daystate that was shooting in the 900’s.

It was so quiet that it sounded like a malfunction when you shot it, just a little click/ping and the loud wack of the impact.

I was so impressed that I’ve ordered the quietest shroud he can make for a custom rifle he’s doing for me. It’s going to be long but extremely quiet. I’ll definitely be posting about it as soon as I get it.

Gen 1 22 cal wildcat w/ huggit

61db. No barrel noise ever so slight hammer

Gen 1 22 cal wildcat w/ huggit

61db. No barrel noise ever so slight hammer

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Yeah…buddy owns this exact rifle.

extremely quiet. 

Pulsar by far.

I believe I would call it a tie between my Veteran Standard, and the standard power Red Wolf. I expect the actual muzzle report is less in the Veteran, but the RW has nothing mechanical thrashing about. It would be interesting to hear them both from 100 feet away. 

Out of the box, +1 on the pulsar + a can.

Lots of options if you want to go custom- my .177 cricket pup with Neil Clague shroud at 16fpe won’t make my cat twitch an ear. Had an AZ HW100 that was scary quiet at 32fpe….

Speaking of HW, both the 100 and 110 are super quiet in .177 12fpe configuration.

I've said this before, the quietest air gun I've ever heard is Joe Brancato's AZ modified Rapid. When he pulled the trigger the bird fell but there was no noise. Just a strange sound of the hammer hitting the valve. Uncanny to say the least. 

From the factory, the Benjamin Kratos is super quiet, especially on 3/4 power setting and further adding a moderator like a Donnyfl Sumo takes all but the mechanical sounds away.
As far as the quietest overall.... I have an Armada in .25 that I have done a bit of work on. It has a Hill depinger and Peek striker, it has a shortened shroud also from Tim Hill and uses an older Donnyfl Tanto (which is oddly quieter than the newer tantos I have for some reason) the Armada also has an old WAR valve and a lighter hammer spring. It makes full power on a 1900psi fill and sounds as if you’d pulled the trigger on an air rifle with an empty air tank. Literally no sound except the very soft sound of the hammer.

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Lol I agree..

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Lol I agree..

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Could get expensive, depending on how many neighbors you’d need to buy for.