They are basic safety items that protect your hearing. Suppressors aren’t just for military applications. Under the circumstances, making a daytime subsonic CNS shot would be difficult enough, but we do our best work at night and so here we are. Slight miscalculations in elevation adjustment equal misses measured in feet at this distance. The only data we have for our rounds’ trajectories is at 100 and 200 meters, and unlike supersonic ammo, this stuff is wholly unpredictable at any distance not previously confirmed. It is the mid-1990s, and we are new to the subsonic 7.62 NATO-ammunition game. Our goal is to ensure the assault force-which happens to be between us and the target-can get into position without being compromised by the roving guard that holds my attention at the moment. That we are shooting it for only the second time in our lives makes things particularly tricky. This would be a simple job at this distance, but we have a new and untested tool in our kit this night: subsonic match ammunition. Our task is to silently neutralize him with a central-nervous-system (CNS) shot. My sniper buddy crouches low over me, watching the big picture around us through his night-vision goggles while my attention is on the head and shoulders of a threat target 165 meters away. Rain-soaked fatigues and fogged optics are minor burdens compared to my other troubles. I am lying behind my Knight’s Armament SR-25 on a cold, wet autumn night.
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