Barney's Colt

[jeepnik]

Where’s their ear protection?

It's 1965. For those too young to remember hearing protection and eye protection were always a thing when firing weapons. Many of my generation have poor hearing and tinnitus because muffs and plugs simply were not used. Time moves on things change, sometimes for the better.

 

[DR505]

Jet engines and aircraft carrier operations caused much of my hearing loss and I have a service connected disability for tinnitus and hearing loss. I am religious about using hearing protection now. I always doubled up on ear-pro in law enforcement as a firearms instructor and doing bomb technician work.

 

[warnerwh]

You have that right regarding being on a carrier. You could scream in the face of a person next to you and all they would see is your mouth moving, and that was without your muffs on. This was just walking through the hangar bay when someone was working on one of the planes. Nothing like being young.

 

[stonebuster]

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There was an episode where he said he wanted to be respected. Not the gun getting the respect. I think they were going to do a movie called “The Sheriff without a gun.” On that episode.

Andy occasionally strapped on a gun when hunting fugitives and, sometimes grabbed a long gun out of the rack.

I remember Andy grabbing a revolver at his house off the top of a piece of furniture when an x-con came calling.

 

[Old_Grouch]

There was one episod in which Andy was wearing his gun belt and holster, but there was no gun in it. I don't know if the prop master was out sick that day or what but Andy kept his hand on the holster trying to hide the fact that it was empty.

 

[Armybrat]

If you live long enough you may get to where you no longer notice it. I no longer notice it as long as I don't think about and when I do it's now a very low sound like hearing the wind blow.

My tinnitus is a pretty darn loud high pitched tone accompanied by a flock of chirping birds & cicadas.
I have just ignored it for decades.

 

[tightgroup tiger]

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There was an episode where he said he wanted to be respected. Not the gun getting the respect. I think they were going to do a movie called “The Sheriff without a gun.” On that episode.

Andy occasionally strapped on a gun when hunting fugitives and, sometimes grabbed a long gun out of the rack.

He doesn't look right with a gun, especially in a basket weave looking holster that doesn't match the belt.

 

[SwampWolf]

My tinnitus is a pretty darn loud high pitched tone accompanied by a flock of chirping birds & cicadas.

In addition to shooting handguns and rifles for the four years I was in the Air Force, I was also exposed to the noise of jet engines from B-47 and B-52 bombers, KC 135 tankers and F-101 "VooDoo" fighters; all unprotected hearing. I didn't know what tinnitus was but I was keenly aware of the noise it "made"; so much so that shortly after we were married, I had my wife hold her ear flush against mine to see if she could hear it too. After "listening" for a few seconds, she said, "I don't hear a thing"; to which I replied, "You're going deaf too!"

 

[halfmoonclip]

They gave us ear plugs at Ord in '70, but they didn't tell us to put them in, so we didn't. We did have them displayed, in their plastic case, from the epaulets on our field jackets, but that was it. No safety glasses.
If you've never thought about it, the gas port in an AR bolt carrier vents both gas and noise, so the guy to my left on the firing line installed the tinnitus in my left ear. Muffed sport shooting since then shouldn't have done too much harm, but the ambient noise during cafeteria duty (I was a middle school teacher) can't have helped. (Side story; we used a decimeter to measure the noise the kids made; we also checked during a teachers' meeting; there wasn't much difference.) It wasn't that the kids, or the teachers, were deliberately screaming; just trying to be heard above the background noise was a challenge.
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