Guys.. I'm in my 50's.. I'm also a Certified Safety Consultant by trade..
I deal with high noise DAILY... 85-100DB is nothing to ignore....Most of time we should be wearing double hearing protection... If you don't think that years of shooting shotguns in from a pit blind will NOT effect UR hearing???
Think again!!! I have a lot of hearing loss.. Just so U know.. We ALL should wear it..
Even in the blind if we aint' calling..
I hunted with a friend last year for teal..I always give my little safety speech about shooting over peoples heads etc.. Well a few teal came over on my side of blind I stayed seated and ducked a little..
The person to my left got excited and swings he gun over and near my ear, and then shoots about 6-12' away from my left ear .. I thought he stuck an ice pick into my eardrum.. The echo from the shoot in that steel blind damaged my left ear horribly..
It took about 2 month for my hearing to return in my left ear.. It will never return to normal in that ear again..
Hearing is something you young guys take for granted...I know I did when I was U alls age.. SO BE CAREFUL..
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