In order to participate in the GunBroker Member forums, you must be logged in with your GunBroker.com account. Click the sign-in button at the top right of the forums page to get connected.
Hearing Protection During Battle
JackHammers
Member Posts: 3 ✭
I would like to ask from your personal experience, what did you do to protect your hearing during battle? It seems if you protect your hearing, it would put you at a disadvantage? I ask this question because I have read that firing guns in your home will damage your ears and if you were in a car, it would be worse.. The firing of guns would damage your ears. Also, I have purchased earmuff protection for my family, but I think that they would need to hear me or be able to react to sound in such a situation. Thanks for any help.
Comments
Priorities
A life long problem is not much of a problem, if your remaining life is not that long.
Adrenalin!
Cigarette filters, not all that good but helped some.
Smoky
Cotton in the ears would probably give you 50% protection and still be able to hear conversation. On the firing range cotton plus earmuffs almost totally blocks hearing conversation.
Nothing.
In combat, I wore a ballistic helmet with earphone cups to hear the radios. The "thud" of a 500-lb bomb a kilometer or so away rattled the plane, but was hardly noticeable. I have, on the other hand, heard the distinct sonic snap of AK rounds going past my boom mic, likely less than a yard or so from my handsome profile. Those got my attention a lot more. I quit keeping count at a half million rounds fired at me. Got shot at with everything from a crossbow to a SAM. Trust me, the potential loss of hearing was not one of my priorities.
WHAAT . . . .
HUH? Never heard of such a thing in 1970 and haven't heard much of anything since.
I find myself in a very quiet place and hear plenty! 😕
The saving grace is that the VA will give you free hearing aids. Ask me how I know. LOL
You also get 10% disability if you file. Hearing is the one thing they cannot dispute. Trust me.
Are you serious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "Excuse me Mr. Slime ball, don't shoot until I put my ear plugs in". When shooting in closed quarters plug one ear with yer other hand. I'd rather be deaf than dead.
That's why The Marine Corp is issuing combat rifles with silencers now. They are also dropping Tanks for a force multiplier.
serf
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2021/01/05/stealth-fighters-why-all-marine-infantry-are-getting-silencers/?sh=388498f71f46
As well as reducing sound, a silencer can virtually eliminate muzzle flash, which can be the only way of locating a shooter, especially at night when opponents are typically shooting at each other’s muzzle flashes. In this situation a suppressor becomes a cloak of invisibility.
HUH?? What's ear protection?
Suppressors are an improvement when shooting in enclosed spaces but not anything like the movies. Shooting near anything that reflects the sound back toward the shooter is pretty darned loud.