EAR PLUGS. ALL THE TIME. NO EXCEPTIONS!
#1
Fork Horn
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 287
EAR PLUGS. ALL THE TIME. NO EXCEPTIONS!
After struggling with hearing loss for a lot of years, I finally broke down and ordered a set of hearing aids. I'm sure there has been a lotof causes, like chainsaws, heavy equipment and the like, but shooting without earplugs when I was young is a big part of my deafness. When I was a kid, wearing hearing protection was for wimps. Talk about a stupid mind set. So thirty five years later I just plunked down $4200 so I can hear a deer in the brush. I think about all the cool stuff I could have bought with that money (a new bow, another rifle, a quad) and i want to cry.
SO DON'T EVER FORGET TO WEAR YOUR HEARING PROTECTION.
SO DON'T EVER FORGET TO WEAR YOUR HEARING PROTECTION.
#2
RE: EAR PLUGS. ALL THE TIME. NO EXCEPTIONS!
I agree I got a new 9mm (Magnum Research Baby Desert Eagle) and my dad and I went out to shoot it, well a clip each later and we were through. I couldn't hear out of my left ear for three days. I broke down and got some plugs they now stay in my glove box and I wear them whenever I am target practicing.
I don't wear themin the woods though. I may regret it later.
I don't wear themin the woods though. I may regret it later.
#3
RE: EAR PLUGS. ALL THE TIME. NO EXCEPTIONS!
Fortunately, I learned to shoot a few years back along with my 12 year old daughter. In having to set an example for her I made sure i always wore hearing protection and eye protection. I have also found that some of my shooting inaccuracies (due to flinching)were do to muzzle blast and not recoil. When I increased my hearing protection on my bigger guns, i was able to tighten my groups
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Houston, Texas
Posts: 3,224
RE: EAR PLUGS. ALL THE TIME. NO EXCEPTIONS!
After struggling with hearing loss for a lot of years, I finally broke down and ordered a set of hearing aids. I'm sure there has been a lotof causes, like chainsaws, heavy equipment and the like, but shooting without earplugs when I was young is a big part of my deafness. When I was a kid, wearing hearing protection was for wimps. Talk about a stupid mind set. So thirty five years later I just plunked down $4200 so I can hear a deer in the brush. I think about all the cool stuff I could have bought with that money (a new bow, another rifle, a quad) and i want to cry.
SO DON'T EVER FORGET TO WEAR YOUR HEARING PROTECTION.
SO DON'T EVER FORGET TO WEAR YOUR HEARING PROTECTION.
#6
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Missouri
Posts: 1,429
RE: EAR PLUGS. ALL THE TIME. NO EXCEPTIONS!
I have a question. Maybe someone on here can answer. I too have done a fair amount of shooting without hearing protection in the past. I always wondered why at the range my ears range after a shot and in the woods shooting at game my ears never ring.
#7
RE: EAR PLUGS. ALL THE TIME. NO EXCEPTIONS!
Shato,
If your range is like mine it may have a cover. That makes for additional noise IMO. Also, just like you don't feel recoil after the shot at an animal you may not realize your ears are ringing. Just a thought
If your range is like mine it may have a cover. That makes for additional noise IMO. Also, just like you don't feel recoil after the shot at an animal you may not realize your ears are ringing. Just a thought
#8
RE: EAR PLUGS. ALL THE TIME. NO EXCEPTIONS!
I think that your senses get so hightened for the shot, that you just flat out dont really hear it. My gunsmith and I where talking about putting a muzzle break on my .270 to lessen the recoil for me a bit more. I said "but then it would be so loud" and he told me back "I personally have never heard a shot that I have made on a deer" and that got me to thinking, and I cannot recall hearing a shot made at a deer either. I know that with myself though, when target practicing I have to wear hearing protection nowdays. I deal with chronic neck and back pain nowdays and without hearing protection my muscles cramp up really bad without it.[:@] It might sound strange for me to say that, but it is the honest to god truth. I built a hunting blind/shooting stand and keep a pair of ears phones in it just for shooting.
#9
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 49
RE: EAR PLUGS. ALL THE TIME. NO EXCEPTIONS!
Shato,
I would have to agree with Danny D. Asked the rangemaster this year while sighting in for the elk hunt and he mentioned the cover and "dykes" surrounding the range played a big part.
CZ2506-Thanks for the input, I will wearear/eye protection at the range, but find that I only wear ear plugs half the time with a shotgun and never on the riflehunt. My buddy asked me this year where my ear plugs were, and replied that I don't think they're needed with one shot. Wasn't trying to be macho, it's just one extra thing to remember and bring along hunting. Shots here and there add up though. Thanks.
I would have to agree with Danny D. Asked the rangemaster this year while sighting in for the elk hunt and he mentioned the cover and "dykes" surrounding the range played a big part.
CZ2506-Thanks for the input, I will wearear/eye protection at the range, but find that I only wear ear plugs half the time with a shotgun and never on the riflehunt. My buddy asked me this year where my ear plugs were, and replied that I don't think they're needed with one shot. Wasn't trying to be macho, it's just one extra thing to remember and bring along hunting. Shots here and there add up though. Thanks.
#10
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Houston, Texas
Posts: 3,224
RE: EAR PLUGS. ALL THE TIME. NO EXCEPTIONS!
I see people that are just starting not wanting to wear them and I just tell them do you want your hearing as bad as mine? They normally put them on then. I did the same thing with my brother when his back was bothering him from a pinched nerve. He wouldn't go to see the doctor said it will get better but I reminded him how bad mine is and he didn't want his like mine. Right after I told him I turned and my back dislocated again and I fell to the ground. He went to the doctor that week.