Originally Posted by rebs
It is a 16" barrel
THAT'S why you're loud.
I'll run it through QuickLoad when I get home and get a solid number, but I'm going to guess that your muzzle pressure is somewhere in the 14-17,000psi range, where if you had a more typical 22-24" barrel your muzzle pressure would be more like 8-10,000psi.
Still happily answering to the call-sign Peetza.
The problem, as you so eloquently put it, is choice.
He is no fool who gives what he can not keep to gain what he can not lose.
-Jim Eliott, paraphrasing Philip Henry.