shooting 22lr without ear protection

[blakejohn]

Hunting, no. Range, or any other time, yes. Kids, always.
I have been lucky I guess. Teen years with deafening music, career as a auto/diesel mechanic and never any protection. Required to take hearing test annually and always passed 110% The technicians would always say that I would hear the frequencies that most cannot.

 

[rugerceltics13]

having done sound competition for years, i don't have much hearing left as it is, i shoot w/o hearing protection w/just about most things. but then recently my wife made a big stink about me loosing more of my hearing so i started wearing ears when i shoot indoors and with anything bigger than a 9mm. in order for me to have a conversation with somebody i'd have to really pay attention to them in order to connect their words w/their lip movements. good thing for me i can multitask

 

[GAGunguy]

WHAT?

Did you say something?

 

[spotchaser]

TINNITUS IS WHAT YOU WILL END UP WITH IT IS A NEVER ENDING RINGING i HAVE IT FROM SANDBLASTING AND IT HAS CAUSED MAJOR ANXIETY IN MY LIFE DO YOURSWLF A FAVOR SPEND 5.00 AND BUY SOME EARPLUGS

 

[spotchaser]

Tinnitus is what you will end up with i have it from sandblasting all my life
spend the 5.00 and save yourself from a lifetime of anxiety and constant ringing 24/7

 

[JustAmused]

I would wear it shooting at an indoor range but hunting I could never think of it unless maybe I was out west where its wide open. And you can see for miles. Spending 99% of my hunting life in the south many many times I have heard game well before I saw them. If I had ear muffs/plugs I would have gone home empty handed more times than not. I never wear it I the woods. I don't care if im squirrel or rabbit hunting with a 22 deer hunting with 270 or 30-30 and turkeys with my 12 ga. How can you locate a gobbler without being able to here his calls and what direction he is? Besides unless your bird hunting how many shots are you taking anyway? Unless your at the circus or in a zoo probably not many even if your a terrible shot. I do all my plinking outside and i don't wear it with anything 223 or smaller but will with anything above that especially with pistol rounds. Always make the kids wear it no matter what with anything above a pellet gun.

 

[tv_racin_fan]

whats the general consensus around here about shooting 22lr outside without ear protection?

will it eventually catch up to you if you do it once in a great while for say picking off a squirrel or some such event?

lets say you see the squirrel your after and know there a good chance he will be outta there by the time you get your ears on, do you go get them or just pick up the rifle and get the job done

It WILL catch up to you one day. Have I done it? Yes sir. WIll I do it again? Yes sir. Do I know better? Yes sir.

More than likely the next time I shoot a squirrel it will be with some sub sonic rounds and I may or may not forget my ears. I'll wish I hadn't one day. Were it legal to hunt with a silencer I would get one or make one and have at it on the local squirrels.

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I would wear it shooting at an indoor range but hunting I could never think of it unless maybe I was out west where its wide open. And you can see for miles. Spending 99% of my hunting life in the south many many times I have heard game well before I saw them. If I had ear muffs/plugs I would have gone home empty handed more times than not. I never wear it I the woods. I don't care if im squirrel or rabbit hunting with a 22 deer hunting with 270 or 30-30 and turkeys with my 12 ga. How can you locate a gobbler without being able to here his calls and what direction he is? Besides unless your bird hunting how many shots are you taking anyway? Unless your at the circus or in a zoo probably not many even if your a terrible shot. I do all my plinking outside and i don't wear it with anything 223 or smaller but will with anything above that especially with pistol rounds. Always make the kids wear it no matter what with anything above a pellet gun.

Good electronic ear muffs will let hear every little sound and block out the gun shot.