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Old 12-22-2014, 12:50 PM   #8
Verjigorm
 
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Default Re: Hearing and firing guns

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Originally Posted by DouglasCole View Post
Firing fewer than 20 shots on a farm in Kansas when I was 19 or so with no hearing protection using a .22-250, my ear (right ear) was ringing for a week.

The movie HEAT has pretty realistic gun sounds, but no one actually does guns as loud as they really are, because "This is THX. The audience is now deaf."
I ran through 58 rounds of 12ga the other weekend in the open, and it didn't bother my hearing too much.

Enclosed spaces will make you sick though. Well, that's how I felt when shooting from a porch when I was a kid.

Edit: Personally, I find pistols to be more unerving than a shotgun. My AK was loud, but not too bad.
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