Being the gun caption on open 40MM and 3"50 gun mounts I had phones on, but needed to keep one ear open to hear the loading system and gun crews, it was a safety issue. I did a lot of shooting of 30-06 in my 03-A3, 38 long colt in a revolver, 45-70 25-35, 30-30, 38-55 and many 22 rounds through rifle and pistol. I did not use ear protection because it was unhandy and unmanly in those days. When I went into the Navy I had good enough hearing that they wanted me to train for sonar or radio. What did the most damage was the 3"50's with their high frequency and sharp blast. I recommend hearing protection for all shooting, but often it is grab and go in my world with firearms, a planned sighting in session is different.
jud
Jules-
Tried http://www.zyvestra.com/ ?
I am not advocating but you might see if your MD would suggest this.
Good Luck !
Derek
I fall into the group of unprotected ears during one round out of the .357 over 20 years ago. Left really howls and the right is a constant lower ring.
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what somebody answer that damn phone
Last week, the kid could have used a blindfold......;-)
screaming women at concerts...
that's the worst thing for me particularly when they do it right behind me. I would turn around and perform an ***-chewing but they'd probably think I'm a jerk.
That's probably a loss of 10, 20, or 30 dB at 1200 Hz.
screaming women at concerts...
The more I think about it the more I hear it. Mine's probably from playing rock & roll music for the last 40+ years and going to insanely loud concerts. The one that I remember really thinking it was doing damage was Alice in Chains. We went out to the lobby with our hands over our ears even though I like their music. It also seems to get louder with stress, I don't know but I think mine might be tied to high blood pressure. Maybe I should go to the doctor more than every five years when I've got something urgent. Ya think?
Oh, and the other thing is that a couple that we used to go to a lot of rock concerts with (now divorced) both did that whistling thing with their two fingers so loud you think your ears are going to bleed. They thought it was funny when we'd crumple to the ground in pain.
There are other things besides tinnitus that cause problems in separating sounds, in ears that can still pick up faint sounds when there is no competition.
One of them is when the joints between the tiny bones in the inner ear get loose so they rattle instead of transmitting the pure sound. It is common as people get older.
screaming women at concerts...
stress does make it louder or tired at the end of a hard day.
screaming women at concerts...
Screaming women 'after' concerts always were a favorite of mine. Pink Floyd, Ted Nugent, almost any group. Not all of them can go back stage but a lot of them can still scream for hours. Just saying.
Ear plugs were in used before, during and after.
