If at all possible, try to keep your mouth open if you have to shoot indoors. It will at least lessen the effects a notch or two.
Hey fellow patriots,
I was up in good o'l Brohman, MI this weekend getting away from it all and wondered what it would sound like if I actually had to fire some rounds to save my life or someone else's. Needless to say I fired off 3 rounds in a safe manner but with no hearing protection.No, you didn't. If you fired the rounds w/out hearing protection you did not fire them in a safe manner It kind of sucked, but it was not as bad as I thought it would be. I did this because I feel it is important to have a small sense of what a defensive situation would be like. The ears rang for a good 8 hours or so but I'm fully functional now.No, you're not. You've suffered permanent hearing loss however slight
Won't be doing that again for a while. But hey, now I know. Back to training properly now!
Interesting...
A couple of weeks ago I shot 3 shots through a 270 riffle without hearing protection while deer hunting. The interesting thing is I could hardly hear the sound, and that was only the rush of hunting, knowing that the deer weren't shooting back.
I don't know that you can expect the sound to be the same shooting at targets only because of the other human factors that come in to play when you're in a life or death situation.
In any case, my experience was enough to prove to me that I'll never shoot without hearing protection unless I'm hunting or saving my life. It's just not worth the damage I know the sound does to my ears.
That's exactly what artillery personnel are instructed to do and from what I've been told it works.
Please don't ever do anything that stupid again
Well at least you said please!
Treo:245102 said:Well at least you said please!
Let me put it in plain English I did what you did and I lost my hearing
I am 46 years old and can't use a telephone. I also have to use the captions on my TV Is there some part of once your hearing is gone it will never come back that you don't ginkcuf get?
Do. Not. Fire. A. GNIKCUF. weapon. W/out. GNIKCUF Hearing. Protection. Ever.
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