Ears Ringing from the range!

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I know I have heating loss from my younger days. About 4 years ago I have 4 12" Rockford Falsgate punch hx2s that hit about 157 db, AND I WOULD RIDE AROUND LIKE THAT UNTILL IT MADE ME SICK!!!!!!! I had to replace the rear 1/4 panel glass twice because it would vibrate loose.

This is a whole different kind of hearing loss.
 
Road wild,
After a trip to the range, I always have trouble hearing words like mow, trim, clean, take, out, gargage, change, and diaper....:D It seems to last until the next range trip.....Maybe I need to see a Dr.
 
Way back in the day. We used to go shooting all the time. Without ear plugs. In fact they werent even mentioned. You hardly saw guys wearing ear plugs. At the end of shooting yep i remember those ringing ear days. it could last up to a week but mine always went away.
 
scrat, don't forget to come back in, say, 25 more years (you're still young) and let us know how your hearing is. I've seen many old school shooters with premature deafness of varying intensities. One common diagnosis is shouting when talking. People just can't hear themselves, lack ear-larynx nervous feedback, and speak up to compensate, like a teenager will do when using headphones.

Ear damage is normally underestimated because as it's cumulative, it grows very slowly and it's not noticeable for decades. It's the opposite of "fire-burns". You'll only burn your hand once, and you'll learn the lesson. You associate it instantly, every animal learns that way.

But this is different. Like casting lead with poor ventilation, it can take months or years before you notice you're poisoned.
 
+1 for fans at night.

As a young child, I had several dozen ear infections, mostly in my left ear. If I concentrate, I can tell that my left ear feels muffled all the time.

Aside from the hearing loss due to infections, as a teenager and 20-something, I played in bands and was "too cool" to wear earplugs.

Now I get to listen to a constant tone in my ears. It's not bad during the day when there is noise, but if I don't have a fan at night, it keeps me up and makes me nuts.

I don't usually wear muffs and plugs, though, because the plugs I have are rated a lot higher than most store bought plugs. When I pull out the M44, however, you bet I double up. I can't imagine Russian soldiers shooting that thing with no protection at all. Half their army was killed, the other half was deaf. :scrutiny:
 
Back in the 70's i shot pigeons every weekend. It was not unusual to fire 200 cartridges at a time useing no ear protection. Now I'm a deaf old git who's ears ring. Has the TV turned up to loud and when there are a group of people talking i don't bother listening. I always wear ear protection now . Lesson learned.
 
Good thing suppressors are tightly controlled and punitively taxed in this nation.

:banghead::banghead::banghead:
 
Makes you think about the military folks who get tangled up in "stuff".
There was a program on TV a few days ago about the Vietnam war and they interviewed some vets...some had hearing aids....If one or two shots do this...try a firefight...
A few times...probably no big deal. More than a few will probably have some level of effect.
 
A major cause of hearing loss was land mines -- try running over an anti-tank mine in an APC! Everyone in the track winds up either deaf or with ruptured ear drums.
 
I never had the "lucksury" of running over a landmine...but I heard from folks who did - my biggest hearing discomfort was close proximity to claymores and behind (in-directly of course) to RPG7's...my hearing is not what it used to be...but mine was not caused by a one(or few) off thing...I may need a hearing aid in 10 or so years...
 
We're off target, but contact the VA. Hearing aids cost literally thousands of dollars, but with a Purple Heart you have priority -- they will do the test, and if your hearing is below a certain level, you get free hearing aids -- and free batteries.
 
I don't even notice the "crickets" anymore they have been chirping so long. That is until I think about them. When I saw this post I started hearing them and they are loud. As soon as I get my mind on something else and forget about them they won't bother me until I think about them again.

Carry on a conversation with any background noise. Forget it. I can only understand about every fifth word.
 
Same here -- but hearing aids really help.

My aunt, who passed away about a year ago, lived in Texas near Austin. I went to visit and noticed whole valley bulldozed -- the chaparal and scrub oak there is not easy to clear.

Then she told me the story -- she was grocery shopping and on the way home there was an 18-wheeler right on her bumper. It followed her home -- she could hear it.

When she got in the house, she put in her hearing aids and heard a siren. But there aren't any sirens around there.

Turns out what followed her home was the tornado that devastated Jeral, Texas.:D
 
I winter in Yuma Arizona where I shoot weekly with about 30 other Timeless Classics, all of us over 60 and some over 70. EVERY ONE has some hearing loss, at least half wear a hearing aid and a couple are almost totally deaf. Wear that ear protection, guys, you only get two and there are no more issued!!
 
My Dad has lost some of his hearing, but he thinks the majority of it was working in chemical plants back when they just put out a pile of cotton rather than good ear plugs. He does think the army took care of some of it though.

He got ear plugs a while back and was pleasantly surprised to hear birds again.

+1 on doubling up if you can.
 
It's quite funny, I'm on the range on a daily basis in my job and the best earplugs I have found to work AND be comfortable after a few hours on the range to be the 3 dollar stanley construction earplugs at walmart.

I have tried a few of the expensive brands but they were either uncomfortable or didn't work well at all.
 
I always wear both plugs and muffs actually you can get a better noise reduction from plugs than from muffs ! I work in noisy invirons so I use both when i shoot !
 
Loud !!

used to work in a VERY LOUD work enviroment .The company provided us with top of the line custom fit earplugs called "noisebreakers". They cut out all noise above 85db.
I walked into the local indoor range wearing them and before I took 2 steps it was get the H out of there !
 
i was using a .22 powder nailer in my basement to secure some footers into concrete. i said to myself...self, ive fired a .22 outside without ear proctection, its not that noisy. this can't be that loud. i was wrong. one shot later my ears were ringing like crazy and i got my ear protection.

my ears rang for about a month from that little adventure.
 
As a kid i went to a gun show at a local range with my father. He gave me a set of ears to wear and made sure i put them in but after a while i got tired of not being able to have a conversation with some of the vendors so i took them out. I was about 200 feet from the firing line where they were shooting everything from .22 shorts to belted magnums. My father noticed this about 30 min later and made me put them back in but a t the time it didnt sound very loud but when i laid down to go to bed that night and the room went silent i could still hear a loud ringing and gunshots. it sounded like there was a war a mile or so away and the ringing was VERY loud and annoying.

the "ghost sounds" of the gunshots i was hearing lasted almost 12 hours and the ringing almost 24 hours. Now i ALWAYS wear hearing protection unless im just shooting a .22 rifle. Even though i should my .22 rifle sounds no louder than a good air rifle.
 
when i laid down to go to bed that night and the room went silent i could still hear a loud ringing
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If you have ringing in your ears -- even if it goes away after a while -- you have suffered permanent hearing damage.

Always wear hearing protection!
 
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