Do you plug your ears when hunting?

[shrpshtrjoe]

No, absolutely not. Honestly do you even hear the shot or feel the recoil when you shoot a deer? I know I don't.

+1 couldn't agree more ..

 

[wilcam47]

if you are in a box blind it would be easy to put in ear plugs...and i would think be a necessity for me anyhow....out in the open...one shot i dont hear...

 

[IndispensableDestiny]

Next time your hunting and want hearing protection give this a try

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Tampon are good for spraying scent on. The ones with plastic applicators are best.

I don't pug my ears when hunting. When it come to take a shot, all I hear is the beating of my heart anyway.

 

[MDHunter]

It doesn't matter if you hear the shot when you pull the trigger...the damage to your ears is being done, whether your mind blocks it out or not.

I'm not as good as I should be about it when deer hunting; I bring them, don't always get a chance to put them in before the shot. Just got back from an Alaska hunt, did put them in before downing this feller...the .338 makes quite a boom, even without a muzzle brake.

Use them if you get a chance, guys and gals...tinnitus is not a good thing.

 

[WSM]

I dont wear them. Your ears play tricks on you enough as it is, a mature deer will not make much sound so you need to be able to hear every little noise.
I have been hunting deer with a rifle for 27 yrs now and the shot has never bothered me. I do wait for a broad side or quartering shot so only i am only pulling the trigger once.

I disagree, deer are about the noisiest critters in the forest. They are only second to squirrels.