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Outside some specific hunting (like bait hunting foxes) silencers are not needed. Then again an assault rifle is a bad hunting weapon so...
Suppressors are an important safety device for everyone's hearing. Watching someone fire a 9mm handgun without a suppressor is painful to me, even with double hearing protection (ear plugs and muffs).
If you use sporting/hunting stuff perhaps. With a Peltor Optime III and plugs you should be well covered. My service weapon in the army was a HK G3 (7.62/.308) and for normal range shooting this setup is demonstrably fine even if you shoot 100s of cartridges.
Now I do mainly 12 gauge clay shooting with the occational .22 LR with a Walther SSP so I don't feel a suppressor is needed (or possible on the shotgun)
But to each his own I guess
They're uncommon, but shotgun supressors exist.
I mostly shoot rifles, so I make no promises for how they will impact your patterns.