As someone who's never been in a gunfight. How important

If youre engaged at night he who finds the enemy first wins was what I was taught.

Ideally there should be minimal flash or none at all.

If you're shooting fireballs that means you need to change the type or amount of powder in your ammo or buy different ammo.

For example, the same ammo shot out of a long barrel will produce less flash than if it was shot out of a shorter barrel.

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>>33475718
does it come into the equation during the day?

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>>33475749
daaaaaaaaaang

>>33475718

At night, rifles with bright muzzle flash could benefit the belligerents using them.

Flashing and brightness can be disorienting as fuck at night and it will fuck your eyes adjustment to darkness.

People instinctively blink when they shoot so it theoretically could effect the shooters less than their targets, especially because they are partially shielded from the brightness by the rifle itself

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>>33475762
That's dragons breath it's what you might call an exotic 12ga shell

>>33475765
At that point you might as well club the fella

>>33475782

Most shootings happen from a few feet to a few yards. Close enough for that.

Back then when cops used .357 magnums I'd imagine the perps would he blind, deaf, disoriented, and with a gaping exit wound. Not a good combo for them.

>>33475661

It depends OP. If they're out in the woods, desert, etc and there's distance between them... Then sure, muzzle flash would not be advised. You're giving away a position you could technically keep for a bit more.

On the other hand, indoors, at contact distances, the sound and flash, however small, would still be loud and bright enough to be seen.

Might as well shower the enemy with light and disorienting noise, provided you also don't get disoriented by it.

Part of the reason why GIGN chose .357 mag handguns for their primary and had holstered SIGs on drop holsters for back up/new york reloads.

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>>33475870
so which is better for flash: suppressor or flash hider?

>>33475891
Good flash hider > suppressor > mediocre flash hider. Suppressors have first round pop which can flash but after that they're dark, and first round pop can be stopped by filling the can with smoke (a blown out match, or cigarette/cigar smoke), and maybe by using wipes but I'm not certain. A GOOD flash hider like the modern 4-prong are crazy dark. A "meh" flash hider like a birdcage loses to both

>>33475963
>suppressor in the same category as flash hiders
no

>>33475891
suppressors if you don't need to fire full retard a lot if so flash suppressor

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>>33475963
thanks for the advice ombre

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>>33475963
Birdcage is a very very good flashider. Only few models on the market are better than it
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2015/06/jeremy-s/ar-15-flash-hider-shootout/

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>>33475661