DM, you are right. Here is some backround info. The town that has this problem has a ban on firearm discharge to start with. My permit comes from the warden service, and yes, we can legaly make all the noise we want, is worth the bad press given the current atmopsphere here in the Northeast, NO. If we fail to take the required amount of deer with archery equipment in the next 2 months they will bring in a hired sharp shooter, with a rifle with silencers and surprsors and all sorts of high tech stuff and shoot the deer, that is a last resort. The wardens considered using shotguns but felt in the end it would be best to do this as quitely and as discrete as possible and archery fills that requirment, except for the fact it is winter, -15 here today with the wind chill and shooting a bow, at night in the winter is a challenge. I was simply curios about silencers for shotguns. Thanks for all the imput