All the ranges I currently frequent have mandatory hearing protection rules but I know that wearing hearing protection has not always been in high fashion.
My question is: How many years did you shoot before you started wearing hearing protection?
When I was growing up I never wore protection when hunting or when spending a Saturday shredding tin cans with my .22. We never had actual gun ranges (that I knew of) in Arkansas when I was growing up so I'm uncertain whether ranges required them then or not (1960's).
I don't hunt anymore but do regularly run across pig hunters while hiking and none of them are wearing hearing protection. What about any bird hunters? Do you wear hearing protection?
migoi
My question is: How many years did you shoot before you started wearing hearing protection?
When I was growing up I never wore protection when hunting or when spending a Saturday shredding tin cans with my .22. We never had actual gun ranges (that I knew of) in Arkansas when I was growing up so I'm uncertain whether ranges required them then or not (1960's).
I don't hunt anymore but do regularly run across pig hunters while hiking and none of them are wearing hearing protection. What about any bird hunters? Do you wear hearing protection?
migoi