Animal impact sound - bullets

[cnelk]

It’s called meat slap

 

[Taudisio]

Not my video, but it is unmistakable in it. Fast forward to 1:40

 

[Bobrobheimer]

Interesting variation in experience. I will try harder to hear it in the future. Maybe just limited metal band with for auditory input in those circumstances.

 

[NRA4LIFE]

KER-THWOP

 

[ozyclint]

It’s called meat slap

It's actually wallop from the sonoluminesence.
More prevalent with 77tmk's

 

[83cj-7]

I’ve tried to figure out why I hear it sometimes and don’t hear it others. It wasn’t until this past weekend that I may have figured out why.
Shooting a 6.5 GAP with 156 Bergers suppressed. The first shot of the morning was a coyote at 200 yards standing in an open field. The bullet impact was so loud that it echoed more than the shot. My next two shots were from the same spot but shooting into thick woods. Neither of these did I hear and bullet impact, just sonic crack. The first deer disappeared at the shot and it sounded like a miss. The second shot (2nd deer) again sounded like a miss and the deer ran into the thick brush. I was a bit confused and annoyed that I could have missed two easy shots when just hit a coyote at the same distance. As it turn out, both bullet hit exactly where I was aiming and I had two dead deer. This, and other similar instances, leads me to believe that it has to do with what sound has to bounce off of. The shot on the coyote in the open field had very little sonic crack, just the impact. The two shots into the woods had very loud sonic crack and I think it masked the impact sound. Thinking back, this might explain why we hear some impacts and not others. Simply, what is around to block one sound or amplify another. I think about shooting steel and how a piece of steel set back in a wooded area doesn’t have nearly the report as if it were set in the open.

 

[Bater]

I’ve heard the thwap on 70-80% of mine, it’s absolutely a thing. However never heard it on the 15 - 20 mono kills