Thread: Educate me on bushpigs

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

Never said that it would eliminate hearing loss... however the implication is obvious... less noise = less damage. <140Db vs 165DB+ is a significant difference in damage. Also suppressors are always on your rifle, unlike hearing protection not being always in your ears. Also there are significant disadvantages with having to manage hearing protection. Batteries, moisture, not losing them, wind noise, river noise. I have both suppressors and electronic ear protection and frankly for bush hunting they are next to useless..

Actually the better I got the less I shot.

Yeah well normal people shoot more with more identified opportunities to do so. Identifying opportunities comes from getting better at identifying them. Clearly your different...

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.

Bullocks - try shooting slow powders through pistols and getting the same performance... everything is a continuum chap and slow powder performance gets optimised in longer barrels. Conversely faster powers are optimised in shorter barrels.

And in my case wrong again.

Who would really know?