Hearing protection
04-28-2016, 07:20 PM
#11
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Illinois
Posts: 3,695
I've had a high pitched whine/ringing 24/7 in my left ear for nearly 45 years. The right ear gets it intermittently. They already make medication for Tinnitus but it doesn't work for a lot of folks. They have treatment for the symptoms/perceptions but so far there just isn't much help for it. OT, back when I drank, I don't think I ever noticed my ringing diminish. But those days are a bit foggy if ya know what I mean. 
I didn't have a drinking problem. I had a stopping problem
I didn't have a drinking problem. I had a stopping problem
05-13-2016, 06:31 AM
#12
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Eastern PA
Posts: 12,746
I'm about as deaf as a door knob too but I use the ear muffs. Only problem is I can't use the for shooting a bow. They get in the way. I do have the Walker's and Woods Whisperers for that but a single aid makes it hard for me to judge direction.
Funny - first time I had the muffs on and still hunting up an abandoned strip mine road and having the volume all the way up it sounded like something was charging up behind me. When I turned it was just a couple robins flying down the road. Made the old heart skip a beat though.
Funny - first time I had the muffs on and still hunting up an abandoned strip mine road and having the volume all the way up it sounded like something was charging up behind me. When I turned it was just a couple robins flying down the road. Made the old heart skip a beat though.
05-15-2016, 08:14 PM
#13
Super Moderator
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 7,437
I purchased a set of custom formed quality ear plugs from the audiologist to which I wear for all shooting. She filled my ear with a gel to which was sent and molded just for me. Paid 60 bucks. They are on a line to which I have looped on a ball cap. The right string I put an overhand knot so I could easily tell right from left.
Used them now for 8 years. They get dirty they are easily washed with soap and water.
Just another idea.
JW
Used them now for 8 years. They get dirty they are easily washed with soap and water.
Just another idea.
JW
05-16-2016, 03:55 AM
#14
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: VA.
Posts: 1,415
05-16-2016, 08:08 AM
#15
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: On an Island in Vermont
Posts: 22,605
I have electronic muffs, the brand that many swat units use, Radians, and sport ear electronic gar plugs. They both work fine, until there is wind, then you get a very distracting noise from the wind bowing over the place that sound gets in. I usually got to wearing one sonic, the kind with the metal canister on the one end and deeply ribbed rubber on the end that goes into your ears. If it looks like I am going to get a shot I put the other one in. I have tinitus, my ears hiss 24/7 except when I drink whisky or a martini, then it stops for a couple of hours. Seems to me that if imbibing alcohol stops the noise, some pharmaceutical company could develop a pill that would have the same affect.
05-17-2016, 03:15 PM
#18
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Illinois
Posts: 3,695
