Some pig shoots work out a LOT better quietly. More targets hang around longer.
Some areas I hunt deer in, are close to houses, some are close to other hunters unfortunately, and it just flat spooks the deer much less than the boom.
Shoot a boom or two out of my area, and odds are you won't see much for deer for a day or two. Suppress one and I'll likely see the normal deer that next hunt and they won't be spooky.
OF course there are otehr reasons to have em, IE just want em. But there are legit reasons for some uses.
More so than cats.
Ok.
Travis