Get used to the sound, because if you need to shoot for a real purpose, you wont be using ear protection.
Posted on 12/24/2016 9:04:41 AM PST by rktman
“I was a tunnel rat in Vietnam”
Whoa, thanks for your service. I went to aircraft mechanic school in Phila. with a bunch of vets using their GI Bill benefits.
They were constantly disrupting the class with their “war stories,” usually the AF guys that had locals doing their laundry for them amoung other such horrors. More than once I had to ask the instructor to please get back to actual school work as I was working my way thru school and needed to learn this stuff... lol.
Anyway, there was one guy that sat in the back of the class and never said a word, little guy, who missed class off and on.
So one day I asked him if he had been in the service? Yeah, he said. What branch?, I asked, having to pry each word out of him. Marines, he replied. What did you do? Tunnel Rat, he says.
Needless to say, he wasn’t impressed with all the bragging going on in class day in and day out. I asked why he missed so much class and he said that he had contracted malaria overseas and it would occasionally act up.
Hats off to you and your fellow rats. I can’t imagine our current crop of snowflakes being able to endure what you did.
Get used to the sound, because if you need to shoot for a real purpose, you wont be using ear protection.
So you amplify the gunshot noise?
Man, wrench—you’re tuff! ;o)
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Since Nov 10, 2016
You’re right of course...but there are benefits from not wearing hearing protection. Like sleeping through rocket attacks, while everyone else is panicked, I would sleep like a baby.
Sir, you have my complete admiration.
Cannot imagine crawling through those tunnels.
Over the 1/2 semester course, I think we fired a total of 25 .22 longs, each. We went to the nearby indoor National Guard range.
“...if you ever need to shoot “for a real purpose,” you won’t even hear the gun shots.”
Just as, if my house catches fire, I won’t hesitate to jump from an upstairs window. A broken leg will heal; 3rd degree burns over 90% of my body will not. Neither will I be digging around for my ear plugs when I’m being shot at.
“I would sleep like a baby.”
Me, too, on nights when we didn’t get rocket fire. Nights when we did, I invariably woke up, usually about 0145, and started getting my flak jacket and helmet on and grabbing my rifle. I was going through the bunker door about the time the first one hit.
Call B.S. if you want, but it was like I had a sixth sense or something. I wasn’t going to ask any questions at the time.
I was on an Army rifle team in the mid-60’s. Yeah, we used the filters-in- the-ears trick. Nobody used anything effective and we shot a lot of rounds from M-14’s. My hearing has been bad (tinnitus, inability to differentiate sounds) since about 1975. Sucks. Unless I am looking right at you, I cannot understand what you are saying if there is any background sound at all. I was a medic and I should have known better! I wear hearing protection now and demand that others around me do as well.
I’ve experienced the same upon a covey of quail rising.
However, tinnitus is real. I have it even right now, from various causes. I was talking about it with my wife’s audiologist friend and told her the most significant onset was at a particular rock and roll music performance I stupidly went to.
She told me it’s cumulative...a round or two, or several, out hunting, don’t help matters, but a full practice session at the range is destructive.
Never put anything smaller than your elbow into your ear(s). Beans are real bad, and kids need to be warned from the stage when they can understand "No!" Spent brass is no good, either, especially if it gets rammed in. I don't know where you come up with this idea.
Back in the day, coming back off the range was bad for a few days. Then, nobody used protection. Machismo. Stupido. Eh? Eh?
Been there, done that. Conjunctive tissue burned from plasma spraying with not enough tint. Nothing like the feeling of having your eyeballs rolled around in beach sand. For days.
at home and for carrying. to be respectful of others ears.
I don’t know what rurnt means, but she was an idiot NeverTrumper Michelle Fields supporting dumb****.
Rurnt is southern country for ruined past tense
Exaggerated for emphasis
Get used to the sound, because if you need to shoot for a real purpose, you wont be using ear protection.
Pretty stupid advice. i shot when young - sans protection - and have a constant ringing from it. Ruining your hearing so you won't be surprised at how loud the weapon is ain't a good game plan.
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