I am religious about it. I even use hearing protection with suppressed super sonic ammo.

Choose whichever discomfort you want
Use hearing protection, or have your ears
ring every waking hour like mine and many
others

I use Ear Inc. hearing/suppress in the ear aids. Have always shot with ear pro at the range not always when hunting. Ears ring all the time. I think a lot of my hearing loss is from fire works and one time firing my pistol off the front porch, that broke me of shooting from the front porch. Now I use my ear pro at the range or hunting or just shooting for grins. Even when I shoot suppressed I'm wearing ear pro. I wear ear pro even when I go see a movie, the sound is very loud can't hear yourself think it is so loud.

I have used Peltor for about the last 15 years at home and work

This above is the reason I made this post - Again I have too many friends walking around almost deaf -if it only keeps one person from having to do that then it is good

I use the Walker Raptor Bone Conduction with soft ear plugs stuffed up to my brain. Doing so, I can hear the Squirrel’s scratching around in the tallest trees. I used to operate the starting light tree at the drag strip. I endured a few too many Top Fuel & Funny Car burn-outs. Coupled with large doses of 70’s era concerts I was on the path to hearing loss at a very young age.

Fortunately, my eyes were opened after landing a job whose main focus was on safety. It saved what was left of my hearing.

I am thankful I can hear my feeder at even 200 yards.

I was a drummer...enough said.

FYI.

For those of you who have tinnitus and don't wear hearing aids, the HA's will make the tinnitus go away. At least it did for me. Costco is the best deal I've found on HA prices and they give you 6 months to return them if you don't like them where most places the return policy is 30 days.

I wear these now, I use to wear orange ear bud bands, these are multi functional

https://goaxil.com/collections/ear-buds/products/gx-extreme

I started using OtoPro Impulse this summer. Great ear plugs, I can hear people talking but they still work for shots.

https://otoprotechnologies.com/products/otopro-impulse

I wear hearing protection religiously in any type of range session, always have. But rarely do hunting. If on stand pig hunting I will stuff some wads of tp in my ears before lighting up a sounder, but I have plenty of time to prepare in that situation. My hearing is severely damaged already from being around loud stereos, concerts in the 80's & 90;s, race cars, construction sites, firearms, etc. I will never hear silence again, tinnitus is very real.

It's funny what I can hear and what I can't though. I guess certain frequencies are going or gone, others aren't. My grandfather was the same way, he served in an artillery battalion in WWII and of course had significant hearing loss, then went into industrial manufacturing afterward. As an example, he couldn't hear Cicadas at all, but could hear human voices fairly well. My wife swears I'm the opposite, I swear she just mumbles a lot, lol.

Up until 2000 I never wore hearing protection while hunting except shooting prairie dogs. In 2001 I interviewed and tested for another federal LEO job. I was in early 40's then and had lost considerable hearing in my left ear. From that date forward I have worn some type of protection while hunting or shooting. Many years of bird and varmint hunting with nothing took it's toll. Every rifle an ammo carrier with two ear plugs. I also use Sport Ear, Sound Gear and Walkers 2.0 electronic protection. When I'm doing metal work I have the Peltor on using a saw or grinder.

Bottom line: Its all about choices! Yep, ilm gonna be 69 in Feb, and my right ear is
already failing. I hear weird things at times, think my hearing is going down, but aging is
effecting it too!

I will say this some of new stuff on the market today new muffs, and auto plugs sold are
pretty neat, wish they were around 40+ yrs ago when i was shooting heavy....

Would like to try someday the ear plugs that amplify and reduce shots at the same time....
not sure the brand of them, id be willing to try some of them.

Always electronic muffs except with magnums, then it's basic plugs plus muffs. Did a lot of 12ga rounds without hearing protection when I was young, but at 70 my hearing is solid with normal high frequency roll off.

I sure wished I had. Never used them up until probably 10 years ago. Decades of shooting and too loud of music has left me with screaming tinnitus and loss of hearing. Oh, and that one time I walked up on a mobile 155 artillery battery without ear plugs when three of them cut loose didn't help.

I'm hoping to get some of those new in the ear electronic noise cancelers for Christmas.

I started shooting mid-life after working in the plants most of my life where hearing safety was always pushed hard, so I’ve always worn them.

On my ears, the plugs don’t work as good as the muffs, so around all the power tools and at the bench I wear the muffs, then I wear the plugs in the blind, even with a hoodie or whatever. The plugs don’t seem to mute the soft sounds…….I can still hear the animals in the brush. Last week I heard the doe blow an alarm when she busted me in the blind. She was about 75 yards away. I always wear hearing protection.

Let us know what you got and how you like them please.

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