Hearing aids

[PWC]

If you have VA hearing aids, you might ask your audiologist to take molds of your ears and give them to you. They are better than 33db....nearly silent.

[gwp]

I will ask for ear molds at the next appointment.

[JOHN COOK]

Did this 30 years ago. Even if you don't have hearing aids the audiologist will make molds for a reasonable price. They work really good.

john

[Major Tom]

I don't get it? Ear molds to make you hear better? How can that be?

[Merc]

I think he means that he uses them for ear plugs when shooting.

[Allen]

Would these work better than the foam ear plugs? The type I'm speaking of you compress by rolling with your thumb and index finger then stick in your ear. It then expands out to the shape of the ear canal. This is what we used to combat the extreme noise at the refinery I used to work at. We had these things everywhere laying around in tubs and dispensors for us, the contractors and anyone else was going out into the noise areas.

[PWC]

Yes, I mean to use the molds as ear plugs. When they take the mold, it is almost completely silent, you can hear your heart beat.

[Merc]

Yes, I mean to use the molds as ear plugs. When they take the mold, it is almost completely silent, you can hear your heart beat.


Might be worth a try. I’ll be seeing my audiologist soon and I’ll see if she’ll make me a pair. My left ear is really weak and the right ear isn’t much better.

I wear both foam ear plugs and industrial ear muffs simultaneously to try to protect my worsening hearing from further damage. I don’t know how any soldier or marine who fired a .30-06 rifle during WW1 and 2 returned home with anything close to normal hearing. The .30-06 was as loud then as it is now and can cause considerable hearing loss if protection isn’t used.

[JB White]

I thought audiologists only worked the sound boards at concerts. The things I learn around here. Amazing! ;)
BTW, I don't want hearing aids. No way am I letting some gay guy near my ears.

[Vern Humphrey]

I thought audiologists only worked the sound boards at concerts. The things I learn around here. Amazing! ;)
BTW, I don't want hearing aids. No way am I letting some gay guy near my ears.

That's the newest disease -- Hearing AIDS. You get it from listening to A-holes.

[JB White]

What? What? You get it from listing tomatoes?

[Former Cav]

I wear both the roll up ear plugs (foam) and then the electronic ear muffs when I go shooting.
as for hearing aids themselves, the VA told me that what they had would raise ALL the sounds and actually make my hearing more of a problem.
My loss is 4000 to 8000 HZ so I have trouble in a restaurant with hardwood or tile floors and lots of chattter in the background.
Other then that, I seem to do better then my wife does with her 6000 dollar digital whiz bang hearing aids.
And her damned batteries DIE always at the most inconvenient time possible

[JOHN COOK]

I don't get it? Ear molds to make you hear better? How can that be?

Surely you jest !!! If not you you are about to fall in TOGOR's dark hole....

They work perfectly to block the sound. By the way, I also wear hearing aids and I get free batteries when ever I need them. If you need them you are a foolish person not to get them..

john

[jacksimonton]

I think electronic earplugs are more helpful to generic earplugs. The generic earplugs block the sound to the entrance to the, but the electronic earplugs give us a limited sound to our ear according to hearing ability. Hearing aids are beneficial to our ear, and it's the only key to protect hearing from the loud noise.

https://www.bigearinc.com/products/best-ear-protection-for-shooting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyNTlg0N6zA

[jacksimonton]

I think electronic hearing protection (https://www.bigearinc.com/product/electronic-hearing-protection) is better than generic earplugs at the time of the shooting.

[lyman]

I think electronic hearing protection (https://www.bigearinc.com/product/electronic-hearing-protection) is better than generic earplugs at the time of the shooting.

generally speaking I would agree, but it also depends on what you are shooting

some folks I know double up on hearing pro (electronic muffs and foam plugs)

[togor]

Yes foam + Mickey Mouse

[PWC]

Something overlooked is sound transmission thru bone. For rifle shooters, your cheek (bone) weld will transmit to your ear.

It's cooling off now in Phoenix and I want to try a piece of moleskin on the stock where I "weld".

[Allen]

When I worked at the refinery one of our radio headset styles was the thru bone type. We had to wear hearing protection but also had to hear radio transmission and speak back. I preferred the heavy, hot, muffs with the flex boom mic because of the dual speakers and speaker size but many preferred the bone type that had a small 1" pad on one cheek bone with a Mickey Mouse flimsy mic that did not transmit well. With this type foam plugs had to be worn in the exposed ear canals.

People that used them said they heard everything (radio wise) quite well and these were much lighter.

I often wondered how much of the unwanted equipment noise traveled thru the bones as well.

[dryheat]

I tried the roll up foam plugs, and I hated them. Like trying to stuff bisquit mix in your ear. I just use silencio rubber plugs and mickey mouse. I wear hearing aids. I can't imagine life without them. Mine behind the ear type. A lot of money but Blue paid for half.

[PWC]

I wear hearing aides too, but not when shooting. Silence is golden.