Reply With QuoteNot too sure where you live...I am assuming the U.S....Originally Posted by HoboWithAK
With that said....Google is an amazing thing.
Thing is, i'm going on a Turkey hunt, and a pair of ComTacs will cost me as much as my Nova i'll be hunting with. Tac 6s are really all I can afford right now, unless someone is selling used pairs.
Edit- Anyone have a link to online retailers selling Sordins?
Not too sure where you live...I am assuming the U.S....
With that said....Google is an amazing thing.
Couldn't find anything on Froogle/Google that was in English. Maybe i'm just a bad search engine user.
Hearing protection
I know we had a related thread some time ago but this is an equipment-specific question:
Would the use of equipment like this be practical and/or allowed (for military duty)?
http://www.actiongear.com/cgi-bin/ta...ll=milcomRPA03
I can only talk for the Swedish army and I use a similar model called protector PELTOR Sound Trap and those are specially made to fit under the helmet
I think it's great that most modern Defence forces are incorporating hearing protection as standard piece of equipment into units. I note that many pics these days show soldiers with foam earplugs. (at least on exercises/target range)
I use to wear this one , and I am very satisfied with it!!
Peltor COMTAC
Hearing protection
A question for you guys who have seen action in the sandbox or A-stan or wherever:
Do you use any sort of hearing protection when going into a hot operation? Earplugs? Sound amplifying hearing protectors? Anything?
How about during CQB training and shooting practise?
carry hearing protection with you. It isn't heavy. Use it when ever the opportunity permits or you will regret it later.
This thread is in the wrong spot probably but depending on the situation you can get a set of the peltor reactive muffs (for $50 on sale) and keep them on. The block out the loud bangs well and you can hear conversation fine. Turn the volume up and you can hear better than normal. They are slim enough to fit under a helmet and pack up pretty small.
For CQB I recommend using the little yellow ones in the non radio ear as well, especially if you are blowing doors.
Whenever the giant jar of little orange foam earplugs packets get passed around I always grab a handful.
I put them in my J-hat pocket, in my DPM shirt pockets, in my Smock pockets, in my wet weather pockets, if I'm wearing gloves I put a pair under my glove on top of my hand, etc.
Having said that.....they usually fall out of my ears after a couple of bounds...so having a couple packets handy is good to have to replace when they fall out.
As a right handed shooter, I always try to keep at LEAST my right ear plugged so I get at least some hearing protection and can hopefully still hear fire control orders("one way range" only for me).
As Stoli mentioned ear protection is quite important.....it's my understanding that like your liver when damaged by drinking your ears do NOT recover when damaged by excessive noise.
when i was hunting in utah, i could barely hear my shots due to concentration, tunnel vision and all, and a little of "buck fever" to boot. Still I am sure damage still occurs, just that my brain is not registering the loudness of the shots.
The largest single physical damage WW2 veterans (and veterans of most any war in history) is hearing damage. Practically every vet has it on some level, from lowered hearing, to the constant ringing (what's the medical term again?) to sevear loss of hearing atleast later in life.
But that's modern day battle, think what the US civil war vets and all wars before that, who stood in regiments of 100's of men firing in unison suffered. 5-6-7-800 muskets going of at once.
Yeah you're hearing is a very precious thing. Once it's gone it doesn't return. However the Liver does recover from alcohol.
Tinnitus?
Don't wear earplugs in place of muffs if you don't have to, especially with larger ordinance. The ear plugs can't protect what goes through your skin, only what goes through your ear canal. I understand that it's easier to wear plugs than muffs under helmets and they are easier to put in and take out, but the thin ones work. I have a set of Peltor T6s, and while they don't even hit 25 db reduced, they give me better protection than a 32db set of earplugs.
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