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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.