Hearing Protection

On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 11:46:56 -0800, "Brett A. Thomas" calmly ranted:

Bueno, Bwana.

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Black powder in 9mm ? That's either deeply perverse, or you're using a nitro powder. Some of use care, y'know?

I suppose you _could_ load a 9mm semi-auto with black powder. But you'd have to change calibre for each round; 9mm, 8.5mm, 8mm... You'd be firing .22s by the time you got some fouling in there.

Some of them even cut the noise down, but I'd still prefer to skip the sweaty ears and the head-vice effect.

Are you already damaged?

My FIL dosen't "need" hearing protection either, but we have to repeat everything we say to him more than once.

Barry

The golf course versions cut 20-30 foot swaths and go 25 MPH, with 10,

Barry

It grosses ME out.

Barry

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 14:22:00 -0700, Andy Dingley wrote (in article ):

-Bruce

Oddly enough I have shot 9mm revolver - some funny Ruger (?) thing firing dog-cheap Israeli mil-surplus from half-moon clips. They were too rubbish to shoot reliably in a semi-auto, but they worked in a revolver.

Black powder revolver is still a mucky business though. After a while it just stops going round 8-)

I've never tried the Bose ones, but if you're looking for something a little less expensive, Koss makes a pair for around $20. The plugs that come with the headphones (They are in-ear bud style) aren't really very good as far as NRR goes, but you can get any pair of foam earplugs, and put them on the phones as a replacement. I've tried a bunch of different hearing protection, and finally just gave up and use the regular foam earplugs (without the headphone) these days. They do make your ears itch a bit for the first couple of months when they're in, but your ears do get used to them eventually. The biggest thing you can do to help with the itch is just to clean out your ears everytime you get out of the shower.

Aut inveniam viam aut faciam

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 09:44:11 -0500, "Buck Turgidson" vaguely proposed a theory ......and in reply I say!:

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Hah! Fun ain't it?

Dang it! How about a Windex Alert notice before posting something like that? Do you know how hard it is to get iced tea off the monitor and out of the keyboard?

:-)

On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 21:22:00 +0000, Andy Dingley calmly ranted:

(Psst, black-colored powder, ya damned literalist.) ;)

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Barry responds:

It's not wide open--we planted more than 60 trees about 10-17 years ago, there are three buildings, and it is not flat and smooth. We could probably bush hog half an acre at the back, but my wife has butterfly bushes and some shrubs there which are hard to mark out, so it combines a rotary rider and a rotary push.

Charlie Self "Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy." Edgar Bergen, (Charlie McCarthy)

Never seen any black-colored nitro powder. It's all gray.

Perhaps you meant a black-colored firearm?

Does shooting require a different i-t-e foam than the Walgreens plugs have? (I.e., you're only interested in short-duration narrow-band events.)

Back on topic, I go with the Hearos 33 Db plugs. I wear them to movies, too. Besides the hearing-safety issue, it's just so much more relaxing to block out the din of power tools.

In article , "Buck Turgidson" wrote: [snip]

muffs and plugs. The Howard Leight Orange plugs work

That is called 'doing the Wolfowitz'..

This thread is already dead, but anyway, I put the foam inserts in as soon as I get into the shop. Then I put the Peltors on when I fire up the router, or the shop vac, etc. But not the table saw.

sandman notes:

Is that new or regional or was mine regional? When we were kids, some wiseacres would wet down a finger and stick it into the ear of the unsuspecting victim at the desk in front of us. Known as a "wet Willie" at that time.

That was our idea of big time hell raising in school.

Charlie Self "Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to." Mark Twain