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Hunting Rifle: Anyone Else Have No Desire for a Silencer?
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<blockquote data-quote="Teri Anne" data-source="post: 2361430" data-attributes="member: 118816"><p>Well I did mention that this was going to cause some controversy, and it appears that I was right. First of all, I do have hearing loss. It has been primarily caused by 30 years in the Military exposed to Jet engine noise, small arms fire, 155MM howitzers to name a few. I have hearing aids due to my hearing loss which pretty much return my hearing to somewhat normal. Now consider this. Military personnel who are in a combat zone have a choice, wear hearing protection which will degrade their ability to hear what is going on around them, missing audio cues that all is not well or listening with the hearing they have and identifying sounds around that might mean that someone. shall we say...with evil intent is lurking in the area.</p><p></p><p> Hearing loss is a significant issue, but one or two shots fired out in the middle of nowhere when shooting at a large animal is not necessarily going to cause you to go DEAF. Conversely not wearing hearing protection while on the range shooting any number of target rounds will eventually cause hearing damage if there is nothing used to protect your hearing. The Big Bang theory will prevail and you will loose some hearing due to not wearing protections. If you are capable of shooting one shot for one kill on whatever you are shooting at then there is pretty much not anything that will damage your hearing. I for one, who have fired hundreds of shots at 1000 yards can attest that the chances of hitting that magical 1 MOA at 1000 yards and keeping the <strong>first round</strong> hit into the boiler room of an Elk or Moose is pretty slim. </p><p>There is a very great margin of error at that range. For those of you that pride yourself at hitting your Elk or Moose at better than 600 yards, how many of you can truthfully claim first round kills? Something to think about. Something to think about is that when you take a shot at a game animal the least things you think of is that, "Is this shot going to damage my hearing as well as your ability to feel recoil. Both are pretty insignificant when you have the cross-hair's centered just behind the shoulder of the animal you are shooting at. and the rifle goes off. You are more concerned it the target animal goes down or runs like it was never hit. (While it may have been)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Teri Anne, post: 2361430, member: 118816"] Well I did mention that this was going to cause some controversy, and it appears that I was right. First of all, I do have hearing loss. It has been primarily caused by 30 years in the Military exposed to Jet engine noise, small arms fire, 155MM howitzers to name a few. I have hearing aids due to my hearing loss which pretty much return my hearing to somewhat normal. Now consider this. Military personnel who are in a combat zone have a choice, wear hearing protection which will degrade their ability to hear what is going on around them, missing audio cues that all is not well or listening with the hearing they have and identifying sounds around that might mean that someone. shall we say...with evil intent is lurking in the area. Hearing loss is a significant issue, but one or two shots fired out in the middle of nowhere when shooting at a large animal is not necessarily going to cause you to go DEAF. Conversely not wearing hearing protection while on the range shooting any number of target rounds will eventually cause hearing damage if there is nothing used to protect your hearing. The Big Bang theory will prevail and you will loose some hearing due to not wearing protections. If you are capable of shooting one shot for one kill on whatever you are shooting at then there is pretty much not anything that will damage your hearing. I for one, who have fired hundreds of shots at 1000 yards can attest that the chances of hitting that magical 1 MOA at 1000 yards and keeping the [B]first round[/B] hit into the boiler room of an Elk or Moose is pretty slim. There is a very great margin of error at that range. For those of you that pride yourself at hitting your Elk or Moose at better than 600 yards, how many of you can truthfully claim first round kills? Something to think about. Something to think about is that when you take a shot at a game animal the least things you think of is that, "Is this shot going to damage my hearing as well as your ability to feel recoil. Both are pretty insignificant when you have the cross-hair's centered just behind the shoulder of the animal you are shooting at. and the rifle goes off. You are more concerned it the target animal goes down or runs like it was never hit. (While it may have been) [/QUOTE]
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