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Re: Hearing protection
[Re: Hevishot13]
#3131809
05/28/20 08:04 AM
05/28/20 08:04 AM
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Posts: 36,093 alabama
BhamFred
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
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Posts: 36,093
alabama
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I have never used any ear plugs or muffs when turkey hunting, never saw the need. Some of y'all must shoot some cannons....
and I damn sure ain't doing all that movement with a bird within 100 yards, bastards can sense movement THRU a rock wall....
Last edited by BhamFred; 05/28/20 08:05 AM.
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
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Re: Hearing protection
[Re: BhamFred]
#3131910
05/28/20 10:15 AM
05/28/20 10:15 AM
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Joined: Oct 2008
Posts: 30,910 Clanton, AL
Out back
Grumpy Old Man
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Grumpy Old Man
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Posts: 30,910
Clanton, AL
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I have never used any ear plugs or muffs when turkey hunting, never saw the need. Some of y'all must shoot some cannons....
and I damn sure ain't doing all that movement with a bird within 100 yards, bastards can sense movement THRU a rock wall.... I'm in this camp as well. I'll wear muffs when sighting, or plinking, but never hunting. I've also experienced significant hearing loss in my left ear, but it's not from shooting. It comes from years of running equipment, looking over my right shoulder, and also many years of driving trucks with my window rolled down. Road noise probably is responsible for most of our hearing loss, especially us older guys who grew up without air-conditioned trucks
My opinions and comments are my own. They do not reflect the position or political opinions of Aldeer or any of the Aldeer administration.
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Re: Hearing protection
[Re: Hevishot13]
#3132265
05/28/20 07:52 PM
05/28/20 07:52 PM
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Joined: Feb 2008
Posts: 15,509 Montgomery
bamaeyedoc
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
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Posts: 15,509
Montgomery
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Well I just did what I was thinking out loud in my original post. I killed four birds with an ear plug in my right ear. I waiting until the birds were just out of sight, and once when he was within sight, then I slid the ear plug in my ear. Worked just fine. I did miss one time because I was too worried about the ear plug and didn’t see the hen beside me, which spooked and spooked the longbeard. I missed him on the run. Wound up killing my limit but still I don’t like missing. It’ll be a learning curve getting used to fooling with an ear plug but all in all it all worked out. And I can still hear out of my right ear 👍🏻 Do u shoot right handed? If so, u should put the plug in your LEFT ear. It’s less protected than your right side. At least that’s what an audiologist told me. Her experience with shooters was that most suffered more hearing loss on the opposite side from where they shot. I can attest to that. I haven’t had a hearing test in a while but I know my left ear isn’t anywhere close to as good as my right and I’m a right handed shooter. Dr. B No I’m left handed Doc Good deal! Dr. B
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Re: Hearing protection
[Re: Semo]
#3132443
05/29/20 04:22 AM
05/29/20 04:22 AM
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Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 12,052 Sylacauga, AL
poorcountrypreacher
Booner
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Joined: Feb 2003
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I wonder how much of the hearing loss issues are just genetic and guys think it is just from shooting, equipment, or whatever. My wife can't hear and neither can her dad or grandfather. The grandfather blamed it on WWII but I think most of it is just in the genes.
In the past I have never worn ear protection shooting, running chainsaws, tractors, working construction, etc. and hear just fine (maybe I'm lucky). Last couple years I've started wearing it some when I run my old 68 homelite or when sighting in a gun mostly because I'm around all these guys that can't hear a turkey drum if its on top of us. It has me a little more protective of what I've got.
I think you are right. My high pitched hearing has been bad since I was a kid, and so has it been for every man in my family, on both sides. If noise did the damage, it happened before I was 14. People want me to get a hearing aid, but I can still hear a turkey gobble or drum. I can't understand women talking; I can live with that.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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Re: Hearing protection
[Re: Mbrock]
#3132546
05/29/20 08:59 AM
05/29/20 08:59 AM
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Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 314 NWest Alabama
SharpSpur
4 point
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4 point
Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 314
NWest Alabama
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I know people who shoot all the time without protection and tell me it doesn’t bother them at all. I don’t see how. That would be me. I seldom ever wear hearing protection unless I'm sighting a rifle or patterning a shotgun and that's not always. I've shot all my life this way, granted that's only 37 years, but it's 1 more than my Buddy Brock. I've tried earplugs on dove hunts, but they last about two minutes and they got to go. My wife thought I was going deaf about a year or so ago and I went and had a hearing test. The lady at the office said, "you're definitely not losing your hearing, it's near perfect" Not sure what that phenomenon was about? Based on the amount of noise my kids make in my house, I have no ability to tune things out either. I'm constantly saying "yall are too loud!" I also worked in a glove manufacturing plant for 6 years also, learned how to talk over equipment and then go into an office and cut the volume down and talk normal. I think I'm thinking like Semo.
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Re: Hearing protection
[Re: Hevishot13]
#3132584
05/29/20 10:02 AM
05/29/20 10:02 AM
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Joined: Jan 2012
Posts: 9,768 North Jackson
ridgestalker
14 point
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14 point
Joined: Jan 2012
Posts: 9,768
North Jackson
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The occasional pop of a 410 is bearable.
"The Heavens declare the glory of God;and the firmament sheweth his handiwork" Pslam 19:1
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Re: Hearing protection
[Re: poorcountrypreacher]
#3132727
05/29/20 01:43 PM
05/29/20 01:43 PM
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Joined: Aug 2018
Posts: 5,122 Georgia and Missouri
Semo
12 point
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Joined: Aug 2018
Posts: 5,122
Georgia and Missouri
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I wonder how much of the hearing loss issues are just genetic and guys think it is just from shooting, equipment, or whatever. My wife can't hear and neither can her dad or grandfather. The grandfather blamed it on WWII but I think most of it is just in the genes.
In the past I have never worn ear protection shooting, running chainsaws, tractors, working construction, etc. and hear just fine (maybe I'm lucky). Last couple years I've started wearing it some when I run my old 68 homelite or when sighting in a gun mostly because I'm around all these guys that can't hear a turkey drum if its on top of us. It has me a little more protective of what I've got.
I think you are right. My high pitched hearing has been bad since I was a kid, and so has it been for every man in my family, on both sides. If noise did the damage, it happened before I was 14. People want me to get a hearing aid, but I can still hear a turkey gobble or drum. I can't understand women talking; I can live with that. Well if you ask my wife she would probably tell you I can't hear her talking too. Some things do hurt the ears. lol
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Re: Hearing protection
[Re: poorcountrypreacher]
#3139735
06/06/20 09:30 PM
06/06/20 09:30 PM
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Posts: 6,519 Sylacauga
CAL
14 point
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14 point
Joined: Jul 2006
Posts: 6,519
Sylacauga
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I wonder how much of the hearing loss issues are just genetic and guys think it is just from shooting, equipment, or whatever. My wife can't hear and neither can her dad or grandfather. The grandfather blamed it on WWII but I think most of it is just in the genes.
In the past I have never worn ear protection shooting, running chainsaws, tractors, working construction, etc. and hear just fine (maybe I'm lucky). Last couple years I've started wearing it some when I run my old 68 homelite or when sighting in a gun mostly because I'm around all these guys that can't hear a turkey drum if its on top of us. It has me a little more protective of what I've got.
I think you are right. My high pitched hearing has been bad since I was a kid, and so has it been for every man in my family, on both sides. If noise did the damage, it happened before I was 14. People want me to get a hearing aid, but I can still hear a turkey gobble or drum. I can't understand women talking; I can live with that. Sounds like a blessing:)
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