Would /do you say screw it, Im not waring seatbelts, because I have airbags? It really is the same thing.kinda Im canless at this point waiting for approval like everyone else, but have shot suppressed many times, and when the bullet hitting the target is louder that the shot, its clearly helping. I think my ears popped just looking at the pic with that comp Kinda thinking "brutal" is a understatement.īut who cares? Its a good looking rig and really.How much do you shoot it UNsuppressed? Through a SOCOM-SB on there and it's comfortable to shoot with just plugs.ĮTA- gratuitous pic of Colt 6921SP upper. I've got a Surefire brake on my Colt 6921SP 10" upper and its brutal with no can. I can talk louder than my Liberty Pinnacle.Īs far as a can being worth it or not on 556, shoot a 10.3" SBR with and without a can sometime and you'll figure it out pretty fast. Only thing I shoot without plugs or muffs is subsonic 22lr and 300 blackout both suppressed. Same here, although I use Surefire plugs with cans and switch to Peltor muffs with no can. Only get one set of eyes and ears, so take all the care of them you can. I always use foam plugs with my silencers and foam + muffs without.īut I also wear foam plugs (and safety glasses) when cutting grass, edging the driveway, blowing off the sidewalk, etc. Left my mouth open once and burned my throat, but the ears were just fine. My ears didn't hurt even a teeny bit, though. Seemed very quiet, but then with the amount of concussion from that rifle it's hard to really tell. I've even shot my Barrett with just the orange plugs. I only wear the orange plugs when I forget my surefires, but when I do, I sometimes have a hard time getting them out of my ear afterward. I usually see people with the plugs hardly in, which has got to be loud as hell.ĪMEN! 95% of people probably are wearing the plugs wrong. If you really bury those suckers in your ears and let the foam fill up all the way they are very effective. So, it's all subjective.īy the way, when I asked, he said his name was "what?" 22 rimfire rifles and supersonic ammo.Ĭall it trying to save what hearing I still have.Ī younger guy at the range was shooting a 10". Otherwise, I use plugs and/ or Muffs all the time, even with suppressed. Shooting M193 in an 18" rifle length gas tube AR with a Thunderbeast Ultra 9 -actually seemed hearing safe, standing, out in the open.Īs soon as you shot near any large object that would reflect the supersonic crack, or even in prone, it wasn't safe without at least light foam plugs. To me to be safe it has to be down under 100 db or so. Getting a silencer and then not using hearing protection because you have one is about the most ironic way to damage your hearing I can imagine. 130 dB, even for less than a second, is bad for your hearing if you do it 100 - 500 times. I don't know anyone who shoots less than 100 rounds in a range session. Gunshots are short lived, but you're probably not firing one shot at the range. There's a period of exposure that also needs considered at different dB values. People read what they want from the OSHA chart and ignore the context. The bolt closing is pretty damn loud itself. However, as someone else already said: without hearing protection, drop the bolt on your AR with your head on the stock and ask yourself if that's hearing safe. Many cans meter under BFN at the ear.Īgreed with what Renegade is saying about the sonic crack, the data is out there. If it was over 130 the meter would show that. It does hearing damage.ĭownrange yes, but not at the ear. No suppressor fitting supersonic ammo is hearing safe. The sonic crack is still over 130 DB no matter how you cut it.
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