Thread: Hearing protection?

Thanks @Oli1102 I have had my hearing-aids ear plugs cast by Bay Audiology, and those moulded passive-impulse ear plugs may be the answer.
I'd still wear ear muffs over them too.
Just read an interesting article about shooting and ear muffs, etc...a gun shot is about 120 decibels.
Hearing damage/loss can occur >85dB. So take a baseline ear muff giving protection of (say) 25dB, take that 25dB off the 120dB of a gunshot = 95dB that you are still 'hearing'.
Way above the range of the hearing loss damage limit of 85dB.
I'd never really thought about those numbers before, but will be real careful now as I've already lost 30% hearing (thanks to NZ Army, tinnitus, etc).
I'm not an audiologist so I don't know if that is really how dB levels work re ear muffs/gunshots, etc. Maybe one of you can advise?
If that really is how the dB levels work, then most of us are way under in our hearing protection levels.