Thread: Educate me on bushpigs

Originally Posted by Sidney

Dude you must have missed the memo about single loud noise exposure creating lasting and ongoing cumulative damage. .

A suppressor will not save you from hearing loss. Though it may lessen it a little. Good quality electronic muffs will save your hearing

Originally Posted by Sidney

If you are any good as a hunter you will be firing more shots that will damage your hearing, than you might be prepared to live with whilst getting old. ..

Actually the better I got the less I shot.

Originally Posted by Sidney

Besides, reloaders using faster powders can make up most of any speed lost from shortened barrels. .

No that's a piece of collective wisdom that is simply false, barrel length is irrelevant when it comes to powder burn rate for best velocity. However you can drop projectile weight to gain velocity but that will have its own implications.

Originally Posted by Sidney

The fascinating thing about those with negative opinions about well set up shortened and suppressed rifles, is that those holding such opinions usually don't have, or haven't owned a well set up shortened and suppressed rifle to enable them to form a creditable opinion. You know actually knowing something about what they want to share with the rest of us.

Its the world we live in...

And in my case wrong again.