Thread: Tinnitus - still need earmuff's?

Welcome @Bunker
My personal experience follows:
Shot 303/7.62 NATO for some years on ranges (Air Training Corps/National Service/TF), and quite a few hunting trips.
After being on the range (shooter/trainer), I had bad tinnitus and a severe headache.
Took several days for the tinnitus to recede.
Now (50 years later), wear $10.5K hearing aids to replace loss of high frequency hearing.
It's a bugger, because (having got used to 'normal' sounds), everything/everyone sounds like they are using/talking through a cheap 1950's transistor speaker.
Use earplugs and ear muffs - you don't realise how important your hearing is, until you don't have it.
Tinnitus is the 'early warning' of problems later in life.
Did the expensive hearing aids fix tinnitus - short answer, NO.
Still there but much reduced.
Firing a 'big 50' in the States, 3 years ago in an enclosed both (M82A1), with the brake angled back into the booth - f#%ked hearing for good, even wearing 35dBA earplugs.
My sad tale of ear abuse.

What everyone had to do before hearing aids.