tdbru Wrote:since many here like to run braked rifles, consider this article carefully:
http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2021...ring-loss/
as a kid growing up hearing protection and hearing loss wasn't much understood. at age 12 i asked the old guys on the trap line about my ringing ears. they said, don't worry your ears will "toughen up".
now i wear hearing aids. i wish i knew back then what is known now, though finding any kind of hearing protection back then was difficult to impossible.
now when i'm on the range it's both plugs and muffs. and if someone plunks down on a bench next to me or within 3 benches with a braked rifle (usually 300 RUM or something like that) i get up and leave. on the way past them i ask them if they'd be kind enough to knock on my vehicle window and let me know when they're done shooting.....
just saying.....
-tdbru
You really take offense to someone shooting a rifle with a brake while you are wearing two kinds of hearing protection? (head shake) I have tinnitus primarily from my combat experience in the Army, so I intimately know what it is like. Tinnitus is not hearing loss. Tinnitus is ringing in the ears. Separate issues, but some folks have both.