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Hearing Protection in the field?
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<blockquote data-quote="RT2506" data-source="post: 1408375" data-attributes="member: 10178"><p>What did you say? You are talking too low speak up the crickets are too loud for me to hear you. When I was a youngster hearing protection was never used or thought of for anything. When I was 13 I went shooting with my soon to be brother-in-law an5d shot a revolver the first time. I had been shooting shotgun and rifle since about 6 years of age but this was the first time for a revolver. It was a 22lr and I shot 10 Boxes of ammo through that revolver that day without any ear protection. My ears rang so bad that I could not hear much for over a week and then for a while when people talked it sounded like they were talking under water. That started the permeant hearing damage and it was contributed to over the years and not at the age of 60 I really need hearing aids and will probably be checking into it soon. When hunting, mainly deer these days, I keep a pair of the ribbed rubber ear plugs that are on a string hung around my neck. When I get ready to shoot I pop them in my ears. I have a friend that uses the Walker Game Ear that is like a hearing aid that fits in the ear and he really likes them. They are a bit $$ but I guess in the long run they are worth it. Where I deer hunt in east NC it is usually so hot that I would sweat to death trying to wear the electronic muff type that shut down at the shot. I have those that I use on the range all the time. Oh! I did have the opportunity once to try the ear plugs that are non electronic that shut down at the shot. My hunting buddy had a 7mm Rem mag reamed out to 7 STW when the idea first came up. He had a muzzle break put on it and kept telling me about being able to see the bullet impact. He talked me into using it one afternoon. We were doing crop damage control at the time and shooting a BUNCH of deer. He gave me a pair of the ear plugs and the rifle and off I went. I was hunting out of a shooting house that day and had just got into the stand and out pops a deer. I quickly popped a round into the rifle and got on the deer and squeezed the trigger and BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. I had forgotten to put in the ear plugs. When that muzzle break and sitting in a shooting house it is a wonder it did not burst my ear drums. I did kill the deer but I did not see the bullet impact because I was grabbing my ears and about falling in the floor. To this day I HATE muzzle breaks. PS, Use some sort of ear protection. LOL</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RT2506, post: 1408375, member: 10178"] What did you say? You are talking too low speak up the crickets are too loud for me to hear you. When I was a youngster hearing protection was never used or thought of for anything. When I was 13 I went shooting with my soon to be brother-in-law an5d shot a revolver the first time. I had been shooting shotgun and rifle since about 6 years of age but this was the first time for a revolver. It was a 22lr and I shot 10 Boxes of ammo through that revolver that day without any ear protection. My ears rang so bad that I could not hear much for over a week and then for a while when people talked it sounded like they were talking under water. That started the permeant hearing damage and it was contributed to over the years and not at the age of 60 I really need hearing aids and will probably be checking into it soon. When hunting, mainly deer these days, I keep a pair of the ribbed rubber ear plugs that are on a string hung around my neck. When I get ready to shoot I pop them in my ears. I have a friend that uses the Walker Game Ear that is like a hearing aid that fits in the ear and he really likes them. They are a bit $$ but I guess in the long run they are worth it. Where I deer hunt in east NC it is usually so hot that I would sweat to death trying to wear the electronic muff type that shut down at the shot. I have those that I use on the range all the time. Oh! I did have the opportunity once to try the ear plugs that are non electronic that shut down at the shot. My hunting buddy had a 7mm Rem mag reamed out to 7 STW when the idea first came up. He had a muzzle break put on it and kept telling me about being able to see the bullet impact. He talked me into using it one afternoon. We were doing crop damage control at the time and shooting a BUNCH of deer. He gave me a pair of the ear plugs and the rifle and off I went. I was hunting out of a shooting house that day and had just got into the stand and out pops a deer. I quickly popped a round into the rifle and got on the deer and squeezed the trigger and BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. I had forgotten to put in the ear plugs. When that muzzle break and sitting in a shooting house it is a wonder it did not burst my ear drums. I did kill the deer but I did not see the bullet impact because I was grabbing my ears and about falling in the floor. To this day I HATE muzzle breaks. PS, Use some sort of ear protection. LOL [/QUOTE]
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