I was Field Artillery. Gunfire is not that loud for cripes sake!
Freaking burns the few times I’ve fired with loose muffs even.
What?
“I was Field Artillery.”
Redleg here, too. Now, WHAT DID YOU SAY? COULD’T HEAR YOU.
What? I can't hear you.
Jet engines and firearms means that I don't get to hear some of my grandchildren. Shooting inside a closed room is hearing ruining.
/johnny
Man, it is inside a building. Go to your outdoor shed and shoot an AR-15 thru the open door toward someplace safe in your back yard. BOOM!! Your ears will ring for 5 minutes.
“I was Field Artillery. Gunfire is not that loud for cripes sake!”
I was Armor....and I spent 18 months with the 4.2” mortars. I also fire the self propelled Howitzers a time or two.
They are all loud...and your location relative to the gun orientation made a huge difference.
But...if you have ever fired a rifle indoors (not in a sound deadened indoor range or metal building....but inside a masonary building like this school), you will appreciate the painful ‘crack’ that it makes. Its painful, and differs fom the low boom of artillery.
“I was Field Artillery. Gunfire is not that loud for cripes sake!”
Ehh, what did you say?
(81 Mortars followed by years as a helicopter pilot. Earplugs are our friends!)
What?
j/k
“I was Field Artillery”
Yeah, outdoors
I was 16 year old when I went to camp and manned a turret of Quad 50 cals, no plugs or muffs available in 1955. Then over to the twin 40's, went on all day long.