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Anyone ever fire their gun inside without ear pro?
Posted on 1/26/18 at 8:47 am
Posted on 1/26/18 at 8:47 am
I was practicing opening my safe and getting my gun for home defense and the reality that I would fire a 357mag INDOORS without any ear protection hit me. An eardrum can rupture at 150 decibels and that would be higher than 160 easy, at which point permanent hearing loss can occur.
I worry not so much for me, but for my 3 month old...but I know a deaf family is better than a dead one.
Have any of you thought about this? Has anyone had to DC their weapon indoors without ear pro? I know they make electronic earmuffs where it let's in conversational sound but blocks louder sound, but the last thing I want to be doing in a home invasion is fumbling for some ear muffs.
I worry not so much for me, but for my 3 month old...but I know a deaf family is better than a dead one.
Have any of you thought about this? Has anyone had to DC their weapon indoors without ear pro? I know they make electronic earmuffs where it let's in conversational sound but blocks louder sound, but the last thing I want to be doing in a home invasion is fumbling for some ear muffs.
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Posted on 1/26/18 at 8:51 am to Browncoatrebel
Huh?
Posted on 1/26/18 at 8:55 am to Browncoatrebel
load it with .38's. It'll help. Trust me though, in a situation like that you're so amped up you won't even hear it.
Posted on 1/26/18 at 8:56 am to Browncoatrebel
Have I ever considered how much I value my hearing vs how much I value my life? No, never.
Posted on 1/26/18 at 9:00 am to Browncoatrebel
Last year I was being lazy and hunting out of a box stand. It was an 8'x4' box and i was all the way on one side. A deer came out and instead of making noise and walking over I fired my .308 with the barrel inside the box. I couldn't hear right for 2 or 3 days. I could imagine a .357 in a house would be way worse than that
Posted on 1/26/18 at 9:08 am to Browncoatrebel
Fired one in a truck cab once, rolled the passenger window down and shot a doe.30-06
Freaking couldn't hear for a week.
Freaking couldn't hear for a week.
Posted on 1/26/18 at 9:11 am to Browncoatrebel
That and the muzzle flash will be blinding. I have a 357SIG and the way my house is layed out I need to scramble to confront them before they make it down my hallway, my son's room is first. If I make it to that corner and whatever's in my house appears to be a threat, we're both in for the loudest, brightest confrontation of our lives. Hopefully I get the pointy stuff out first. I have 13 in my gun, but the first one willl be the one that counts. We'll both be blind and bleeding out of our ears. The flash-bang out of a compact 357SIG is pretty epic in a well lit indoor range with hearing protection.
Posted on 1/26/18 at 9:14 am to Browncoatrebel
Yes. And I do not use hearing protection for defensive simulations.
Sue me.
.357 is loud.
12 gauge inside of an SUV is louder
Sue me.
.357 is loud.
12 gauge inside of an SUV is louder
Posted on 1/26/18 at 9:14 am to Browncoatrebel
I once had to react quick to a possum issue (my house was in a rural area then, the same property is part of the city I live in now) and leaned out my back door with a Remington 870 and fired. Chamber was still inside the door. My ears rang for days after that. I should have taken one more step outside, I can only imagine how loud that would have been had the entire gun been inside. But I am of the opinion that hearing loss if better than death if it's a home defense issue.
Hopefully you never have to find out.
Hopefully you never have to find out.
Posted on 1/26/18 at 9:18 am to YOURADHERE
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Have I ever considered how much I value my hearing vs how much I value my life? No, never
Sorry, kind of a convoluted question. I guess I just worry about blowing out my infants ear drums and causing permanent hearing loss and I was just wondering if anyone's ever had that experience of firing in a small room indoors in a home invasion. One of my ear plugs fell out at an outdoor range and the guy next to me was firing a 44mag, my ear was ringing for days...but like someone said, you might not even hear it
On a separate note, It would be awesome if they had earbuds that you could sleep in that would let you hear someone trying to break in but block out 60 decibel+. Maybe in a few years..
Posted on 1/26/18 at 9:20 am to Browncoatrebel
Try shouting ears, making sure everyone has theirs on, then firing a barret with yours on top of your head.
Posted on 1/26/18 at 9:23 am to mdomingue
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Hopefully you never have to find out. ?
Amen to that brother. But BR is getting so bad.. 3 people were broken into on my street and I live a block away from OLOL hospital.. They are getting ballsy these days
Posted on 1/26/18 at 9:27 am to Browncoatrebel
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I would fire a 357mag INDOORS
you call that home defensing?
Posted on 1/26/18 at 9:30 am to Browncoatrebel
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t would be awesome if they had earbuds that you could sleep in that would let you hear someone trying to break in but block out 60 decibel+
if you have to go to this level, you need to move. There's no point in living somewhere that your family's safety is even remotely in danger. Worse things than your child losing his/her hearing can happen.
Posted on 1/26/18 at 9:42 am to tenfoe
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if you have to go to this level, you need to move
Fair enough
Posted on 1/26/18 at 9:51 am to Browncoatrebel
Bill Burr has a joke about this and why you should have a .22 for home defense.
Bill Burr: Get a 22 Caliber
Bill Burr: Get a 22 Caliber
Posted on 1/26/18 at 9:53 am to Browncoatrebel
Only a .40 and in self defense.
Posted on 1/26/18 at 9:55 am to Browncoatrebel
If someone is in my house and I am going to discharge my firearm to protect my family my hearing is literally one of the last things on my mind.
I've seen folks (I think bapple) post something about the body in high adrenaline situations like that naturally protecting itself but I haven't read up on it.
I've seen folks (I think bapple) post something about the body in high adrenaline situations like that naturally protecting itself but I haven't read up on it.
Posted on 1/26/18 at 9:58 am to Browncoatrebel
I shot a coon in a camp once with a snubnose 357 and it wasn't that terrible. It was backed up in a corner hissing and the guy that owned the camp told me to shoot it. I told him I didn't want to put a hole in the wall and he told me " there's a hole somewhere big enough for a coon to get in, you think I care about a bullet hole?"
Posted on 1/26/18 at 10:16 am to Browncoatrebel
Took my ear muffs off when I was reloading my handgun at an indoor range. Forgot a guy was two lanes down shooting his handgun. Ears rang the rest of that day, and I had ear plugs in.
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