If you listen to music while you shoot what is it?

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I generally would find music distracting from the focused task at hand, and certainly find anything which accelerates my heart rate to be contraindicated to productive shooting.

I think the only thing I have actually listened to while wearing my Bluetooth earpro has been investing and finance podcasts.
 
Might be a generational thing, but I've never tried listening to music while shooting. I'd say that would be a bad idea at a shooting range where you need to hear the range officer(s) call cease fires, and such.

The booms and bangs with the smell of burnt gun powder have been plenty of music to my ears all these years when out shooting.
 
While shooting? Strictly my own pulse. Shooting for me is about concentration rather than distraction.

While handloading or cleaning guns, I usually have on classical, Nordic pop/folk, Celtic, medieval/renaissance (Jordi Savall esp.), harp and lute (also mostly classical), liturgical chant, Tuvan throat singing, modern (Glass, Reich, Adams, etc.), pop country, geezer rock, some jazz. My music tastes pretty much run the gamut, except for really annoying stuff like Fado, rap, Muzak, opera or Mexican folk singing.

When charging cases with powder I limit vocals to singing in languages I don't understand -- Gregorian chant and Georgian polyphony are both good. No temptation to sing along.
 
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Tried it once, was far too much clutter. Fine when cycling but I avoid it like coffee during range time. What I listened to?


 
There is nothing that can get you more focused then Comfortably Numb.
 
I just have the local radio station on low most of the day. More talk and commercial than music but there’s a lot of local news and traffic reports. Since I drive 200 miles a day for work that gets important pretty quick. Yesterday I got stuck on the way home for an hour because of a field on fire that was alongside a subdivision. I was not listening to the right channel. My wife was and she went around it.
 
FL-NC said:
we used to listen to Dropkick Murphys
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Ok, I know this is a tad off subject; apologies, but indulge me if you will.

I can't find the photo... Shame. My son went a festival in the Charlotte NC area (I think) specifically to hear Dropkick Murphys. At their booth someone asked him if he knew the words to one of their songs (he did) and he sang it as best his can't-carry-a-tune voice allowed. Guy told him, "Check back at (some specific time)."
When my son returned he was informed he would be singing lead on that song with the Murphy's. He tore the stage up.

Hate I can't find the photo. A friend on another forum Photoshop'd it onto a Rolling Stone cover.

The kid stayed high for years after that.
 
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