Fosbery
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I've had a .357 mag go off near me without hearing protection (slipped off! :banghead and it made me wince, but I didn't have ringing and I don't believe it damaged my hearing. Just my 0.002p.
Auditory Exclusion happens in the brain. Your mind filters out extraneous information so you can focus on the threat. This is to help you "fight or flight". Other examples of this phenomenom are tunnel vision and time compression (events appear to happen in slow motion).There is a phenomenom called "Auditory Exclusion" which basically means that when your adrenaline gets pumping, your mind will filter out loud noises. I am sure that your hearing is still damaged, but from my experience, you usually do not hear ringing or have a sense of your hearing being muffled until things cool down.
...um...NO.Cops know if you use supressors you cant just screw them out of the weapon and be like "yep shot him no supressor". You see supressors slow the bullet down and make it hotter leaving distinct burn marks. There would also be the whole issue of nieghbors not hearing any sort of boom and then it makes self defense seem rather suspicous.
Painful ringing == auditory nerves dying.It generates a painful ringing but you can still hear your immediate surroundings, like voices and movement. My ears rang for 4 days before returning to normal.
That's why you put a silencer on a HD gun before you "need it": making the gun inherently quieter saves time and improves your perception during the incident.f there is a bad guy in your house deal with staying alive first. Jerking around trying to put on muffs or plugs is a useless waste of precious time
If you think hearing damage is OK. Seriously guys, exposure to gunshot-level noises causes damage (if it doesn't, you're lucky; if you rely on it not, you're ...).I think a couple shots and you'll be OK.
He's still singing today, in-tune and has no hearing problems.
FWIW: Beethoven was seriously deaf.
Alot of people say they use shotguns for home defense but I suspect it would be VERY LOUD. You'd probably get hearing damage, right?
Not probably.
like it was okay because there would not be hearing damage.Carry it out.
I've got a buddy in Iraq who doesn't wear hearing protection. Last time I saw him, I didn't have to scream out every sentence for him to hear me.
Double Naught Spy said:Sorry Feanaro, from your sentence structure, it appeared you were saying that there probably would not be hearing damage.
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But aren't the walls of the house going to redirect that supersonic crack right back at youthough it could affect what somebody would hear in the downrange direction.