[Namrog84]

I play a lot of pubg(player unknowns battlegrounds) and you can often hear the bullet whizzing past you before the initial shot of the gun/rifle/bullet. And you can often gauge how far away someone shot because of this.

[dingaling]

Which is why more elaborately funded real-World armies are deploying suppressors on line-issue rifles.

Without the muzzle report the enemy has a much more difficult task in assessing distance and direction to the source of fire.