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As I wear digital hearing aids anyway, so when shooting clay birds I just turn them off and use muffs also. When huntinding waterfowl I just turn them off when they start flying, probably not the best system, but it is what I use now.
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I wear hearing protection, plugs, when hunting doves and snipe, but not when hunting turkeys and woodcock. Audiologists state that there is potential for irreversible hearing loss with continuous exposure to 80-90 decibels (dB) of noise. A 12 gauge shotgun blast is between 130-155 dBs. Some ears suffer permanent damage from one exposure to shotgun blast noise. The best hearing protectors advertise no more than 32 dB of noise reduction, but actual reduction to the ear canal may not be that high. Double protection, plugs and muffs are not purely additive because of the flesh-bone conduction. Bone and tissue conduct some of the noise to the ear canal despite protection. After protection, we are still left with about 100 dB or more noise. Have any of you with years of shooting competitively while wearing the best hearing protection you could buy, experienced hearing loss in your ear that faces the muzzle end of your shotgun?
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Have any of you with years of shooting competitively while wearing the best hearing protection you could buy, experienced hearing loss in your ear that faces the muzzle end of your shotgun? My audiologist told me that right-handed shooters typically lose hearing in their left ear (that is my case), and lefties lose it in their right ear. You will normally lose higher frequency (3khz+) hearing as you age, and shooting just accelerates the process.
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Starkey was the company I had the digitals from and they certainly stood behind their product by giving me a refund.
Popplecop:
I thought most hearing aids had built in hearing protection that closed down when there was a loud noise?
Last edited by Chicago; 07/30/11 04:52 PM.
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I thought most hearing aids had built in hearing protection that closed down when there was a loud noise? I have never seen that in a regular hearing aid, but I never wear mine, either. Gives me plausible deniability.
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I thought most hearing aids had built in hearing protection that closed down when there was a loud noise? I have never seen that in a regular hearing aid, but I never wear mine, either. Gives me plausible deniability. Pretty sure that is what the audiologist told me when I was researching digital hearing protection but maybe you have to ask for it - not sure.
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