You don't need a permit for a pair of these and they actually increase your hearing while simultaneously blocking gunshots-nothing wrong with that.
Posted on 06/16/2013 5:25:57 PM PDT by marktwain
Guess I’m a little different. The satisfaction of delivering 12 ga., 00 buck or flechettes indoors without earplugs to felonious invaders would leave me grinning—bleeding ears, wobbly walk and all. ;-D
Dead just sucks.
Not you personally, dead.
/johnny
I can stand 45 ACP outside, I don’t know about in a small room. I shot 1911s next to other sailors and marines, with no hearing protection. The weapon I was standing behind was nowhere near as loud as the ones on either side of me though. I noticed that with M14s too.
22 mag is real loud. 357 mag out of a three or four inch barrel is REAL loud. Hearing damage loud.
The smell of burning powder brings the unpleasant memory of seemingly endless rotations on ranges, doing all that we were told, when we were told. I try not to remember those times much. Serious talk of injury and death reminds me of bouncing and other civilian duties. I avoid remembering those, too. So back to morbid humor. ;-)
Ever hear any of the variations of the running cadence, to the melody of “Music, Music, Music” (”put another nickle in”), “Load another magazine, in my trusty M-16. All I ever wanna see, is bodies, bodies, bodies?”
Seriously, there’s an effective attitude for fighting/warfare and an attitude for everything else in our wonderful civilian world, IMO. One can learn to separate the two quite well. In a fight, a man’s mind should be as calm and serene as the surface of a still pond. But he should not move like pond water.
;-)
“This guy thought he was ‘James Bond’, with a license to kill!”
Ambitious deputy prosecutor
not a good idea.
Pump shotgun for home defense, with shorter barrel.
The sound of a pump racking one into the chamber has caused many a crook to flee. Even if they have a handgun, shotty beats handgun in close quarters.
Outside, is a different story.
You don't need a permit for a pair of these and they actually increase your hearing while simultaneously blocking gunshots-nothing wrong with that.
Here the cops use frangible rounds in the ar15s. That’s what one of them told me when we were talking at the local gun shop. I was asking him about DRT. He said it was good and that the Hornady Zombie Max was essentially the same as what they used to lessen over penetration.
FWIW.
I guess it depends on your frame of mind, surroundings slang and the dictionary you are using. A M4 is a machined gun as is a MP3. I am not so narrow minded to have to have exact precise “Hoyle” definition of everything as I come in contact with many groups and dialect. Some people are just hard to talk to.
Hearing loss is cumulative. A single home defense shooting is not going to damage your hearing. Continuous (unprotected) exposure, to the roar of a common garden variety chain saw or lawn mower, will do more damage.
Silencers don’t reduce the “force” of bullets.
Ear plugs and bayonet.
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