Count me in. I got it when I went to the dentist December 14, 1989. You shouldn't get your teeth worked on when you have a sore throat. The germs can spread easily to your ears that way. Guns, cars and motorcycles weren't a problem until then.
I hadn't noticed it today until I read this thread! I've had it for years, working in a machine shop for years before they knew about hearing protection, loud music, and finally to finish it off, guns. It never goes away, sometimes I just notice it less than others. I really hate quiet rooms!
Mike
Mike
24/7/365...only upside is sometimes I get away with not hearing the wife, well, it's the best excuse I have.
Shotguns are sneaky. There is a high frequency buried in the boom. Tinker AFB used to have a nice skeet range near a tall building with what I think are called "blast flutes." In any case, these are concrete channels several feet deep running up the sides of the building. They are supposed to deflect the blast of a nearby nuke. They reflected the sound of shots from the range. Sound: BOOM! Echo: a high pitched tink-tink-tink, getting fainter the farther away the reflective concrete channel was.
Bottom line, there is a frequency in a shotgun blast that's high enough to damage your hearing a little bit with every shot.
For hunting in open areas, it's probably negligible, but I have known many older skeet shooters who have lost almost all of their hearing over the years, with no other typical hearing damage factors present except being close to hundreds of thousands of shotgun blasts with relatively low powered skeet loads. (There is an archaic device called a Cutts Compensator that makes even mild skeet loads noticably hard on everyone's ears--it's a form of muzzle brake)
Trap shooters had a theory that Jack Daniels made them immune to hearing damage. . .
My own damage is genetic, construction (diamond edged concrete saws in a closed concrete room), Learjets, guns, early damage from fever . . . Oh--and rock and roll.
The ringing can be managed by acceptance. Consider it your friend. You'll never be alone, and it'll sing you one long song.
This is GC ... He was on the flight line. Plus he's been shooting since he could stand.
It bothers me a WHOLE lot more than it bothers him. I have to repeat everything I say 3 times ... First time I say it, no response; second time I get "huh" and then the third time he says "Gosh baby, you don't gotta yell at me!"
Well, apparently, I DO have to yell at him ...
I keep telling him he needs to go get his hearing checked ... He keeps telling me to mind my own business ...
I've only had medication-induced tinnitis ... I swear if I thought I was gonna have to deal with that racket 24/7 I'd go nuts ... I feel for you guys!
This is my wife and me. BB, and my wife need to learn that there is a "voice" between mumbling, her normal low frequency speaking tone, and yelling. LOL
Oh yeah, don't try to talk to me when you're walking away either.
Mine is probably from my time on aircraft carriers in the Navy. You don't realize how much noise is ever present below decks. Working as a CSR wearing headphones for the last 8 1/2 years hasn't helped.
Similar threads
Latest posts
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Whatever happen to Trumps proposal on legalizing suppressors without permit?
- Latest: red dirt shootist
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
