Thread: Dont take hearing protection lightly

some people can blast their ears to deafness without a squeak of tinnitus, some people get tinnitus matching hearing loss, and some can lose very little or no hearing and get a lot of tinnitus.You get used to it, but as the above blokes say you would rather not have it. I got 10-15 high pitch whines oscillating in my left ear, crickets in the background and hissing behind my head... though that could be snakes creeping up on me this is Australia after all.

I reckon this is one of the reasons people preferred longer barrels a couple of generations ago before hearing protection was common. Sudden mild hearing loss and tinnitus was seen as a pretty good reason not to chop high powered rifles down to 20". With a longer barrel, not only is the noise further from the ears, the muzzle pressure has more time to drop, which contributes to less db blast.