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To: Monty22002

I was Field Artillery. Gunfire is not that loud for cripes sake!


7 posted on 01/07/2013 2:40:33 PM PST by occamrzr06
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To: occamrzr06

Freaking burns the few times I’ve fired with loose muffs even.


8 posted on 01/07/2013 2:41:32 PM PST by Monty22002
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To: occamrzr06

What?


16 posted on 01/07/2013 2:44:45 PM PST by GnL
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To: occamrzr06

“I was Field Artillery.”

Redleg here, too. Now, WHAT DID YOU SAY? COULD’T HEAR YOU.


17 posted on 01/07/2013 2:44:49 PM PST by TheThirdRuffian (RINOS like Romney, McCain, Dole are sure losers. No more!)
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To: occamrzr06
Gunfire is not that loud for cripes sake!

What? I can't hear you.

Jet engines and firearms means that I don't get to hear some of my grandchildren. Shooting inside a closed room is hearing ruining.

/johnny

21 posted on 01/07/2013 2:48:01 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: occamrzr06

Man, it is inside a building. Go to your outdoor shed and shoot an AR-15 thru the open door toward someplace safe in your back yard. BOOM!! Your ears will ring for 5 minutes.


26 posted on 01/07/2013 2:49:53 PM PST by steerpike100
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To: occamrzr06

“I was Field Artillery. Gunfire is not that loud for cripes sake!”

I was Armor....and I spent 18 months with the 4.2” mortars. I also fire the self propelled Howitzers a time or two.

They are all loud...and your location relative to the gun orientation made a huge difference.

But...if you have ever fired a rifle indoors (not in a sound deadened indoor range or metal building....but inside a masonary building like this school), you will appreciate the painful ‘crack’ that it makes. Its painful, and differs fom the low boom of artillery.


32 posted on 01/07/2013 2:52:13 PM PST by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: occamrzr06

“I was Field Artillery. Gunfire is not that loud for cripes sake!”

Ehh, what did you say?

(81 Mortars followed by years as a helicopter pilot. Earplugs are our friends!)


139 posted on 01/07/2013 5:13:48 PM PST by BwanaNdege ("To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"- Voltaire)
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To: occamrzr06

What?

j/k


143 posted on 01/07/2013 5:17:21 PM PST by ExGeeEye (I'll give y'all 90 days for the wounds to heal; then we start on 2014. Carpe GOP!)
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To: occamrzr06

“I was Field Artillery”

Yeah, outdoors


150 posted on 01/07/2013 5:29:25 PM PST by Figment
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To: occamrzr06
I was Field Artillery. Gunfire is not that loud for cripes sake!

I was 16 year old when I went to camp and manned a turret of Quad 50 cals, no plugs or muffs available in 1955. Then over to the twin 40's, went on all day long.

263 posted on 01/07/2013 10:00:44 PM PST by itsahoot (Any enemy, that is allowed to have a King's X line, is undefeatable. (USS Taluga AO-62))
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