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To: 300winmag
I also let each student fire one shot without ear protection...

At various times I have been...privileged to be in the presence of a .380 ACP (mine, liked it, wish I still had it), a .38 SPL and a .45ACP (other peoples') and a 155mm howitzer (Uncle Sam's; I was about 50 feet away), without ear protection when they were fired. The .380 was an experiment on my part that I resolved not to repeat; the remainder were surprises.

2,570 posted on 03/20/2005 6:15:49 AM PST by ExGeeEye ("Chipul tau si dragostea din tei, Mi-amintesc de ochii tai...")
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To: ExGeeEye; 300winmag
privileged to be in the presence of a .380 ACP (mine, liked it, wish I still had it), a .38 SPL and a .45ACP (other peoples') and a 155mm howitzer (Uncle Sam's; I was about 50 feet away), without ear protection when they were fired

lost most of muh hearin' in the right ear to an 8" SP Howitzer in the fight at Um Hujul... 8" in direct fire is devastatin' but definitely a last resort... still, we didn't havetuh engage dismounts... they wuz scattered all over the desert floor...

now I got tinitus in both ears... funny how I can look you in the eye at 10' and not unnerstnd yuh sometimes, but I can hear a deer walkin' in the woods at 100 yds in a high wind...

2,571 posted on 03/20/2005 6:43:19 AM PST by g'nad
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To: ExGeeEye; 300winmag; g'nad

Times have sure changed, I shot on the Knights of Columbus rifle team in high school, in a basement range, .22 rifle. Ear protection? What's that.


2,578 posted on 03/20/2005 10:16:17 AM PST by osagebowman
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