Reply #87: I don't think your following logic

[Spoonman]

The concept and development of subsonic loads for pistols and rifles started LONG before the Vietnam war.

You are correct in your knowledge of the inability to "silence" supersonic rifle rounds.

Your straying far off the course of the point here, this shit was faked PERIOD.

The entire point here is that that is not a rifle round, it's mass is too great, it's diameter is too great, and it's solid lead.
It was a pistol round, and no other impacts were notice anywhere else on the vessel. One shot hitting the target is highly unlikely, 1 out of 5 shots I could believe. But there is nothing about multiple shots being fired.

Watson has a history of publicity stunts, and this one just doesn't pass the smell test.