Who wears earplugs hunting?

[missed mallards]

Started wearing them more this year. I have always gotten headaches from shooting, although I never new the reason. It was common practice for me to carry around a bottle of Excedrin to enjoy a hunt, as a migrain will stop most anything. For no other reason, I put a pair in one afternoon and the headache didn't come, and my shooting % increased. I imagine I had began to 'flinch' from the sound. Anyway, to answer your post, I wear them hunting.

[Splash_em]

I wear one in my left ear (shoot right handed) unless I'm in a pit. Then I'll wear both.

Always wear them shooting doves.

[Bababooey]

I wear the magnum ear custom in ear. They are expensive but I had a good connection and the doc said I had to get them. I am 32 and have a 20-30% hearing loss from shooting guns. They are fantastic and allow you to hear ducks, deer, and any other critter out there.

As far as the duck calling goes, I always make it a habit to make sure I hunt with someone that can call better than me.

http://www.magnumear.com/

[GulfCoast]

I have the similar version from EAR (analog, not digital). I use them for doves, pheasant, birds, everything but ducks. I use a foamy in my left ear for ducks, and keep the right open.

[Anatidae]

We use to use Sonic ear valves for years......until my first shot in Canada last year. I had them 'in'......sat-up to whack a goose 10 feet over my footbag and my left ear went numb.

So, I went to foamies........wife has too much trouble communicating with me......always frowning and mumbling something else I can't hear......'probably better-off not knowing what she said, but I can tell she isn't pleased with whatever I did....or didn't do.....not to mention my being totally unresponsive.

I tried muffs this year.......what a cluster bomb. Between glasses, face mask, duck calls, gloves, hoodlum, and muffs.....I spent more time adjusting stuff than looking for ducks. One time, I sat down on a log against a tree that had a little limb sticking out over my head. I was getting all set.....put the muffs over my ears and in so doing....pinned the limb between the muffs and my hat. Needles to say when I went to move or turn my head I flet this constant resistance........Man, you talk about feeling like a DUFUS.....Jeez!!

So, I'll try something with micro-processor baffles or something like that......it's a real problem, but it's a bigger problem when everybody else knows there's ducks overhead and your totally oblivious. "HUH?....HUH?......WHAT?........I CAN"T HEAR YOU.......HUH?.......hey y'all, there's ducks RIGHT THERE!"........and they've known about it for a good 3 minutes.

[RNAIL]

wear the ear mufs with the sound canceling, they are stero so I can hear what going on but something only as load as a hand clap will shut the sound out. Caldwell's for 30.00. Good investment for me, now my ears don't ring as bad after a hunt.

[cheeko]

I wear them all the time.It took me a little while to get use to them.The only time i dont use them is turkey hunting.

[sondance]

Almost every time I am in the pit I have baffled ear plugs. Helps a lot

[CAN-MAN]

significant damage to my right ear by 18 yo, i wear a plug in my right ear most of the time, no noticeable deficits when im hunting
err left ear, i been drinking a touch

[wing shot]

I hunted several times this year....4 people in a boat. I was the only one wearing earplugs (wax type for swimmers). You talking about getting you your eardrums blasted. It blows my mind people don't wear earplugs while shooting shotguns.

[landscaper]

I only wear them when I deer hunt with my pistol. Big bang in the timber = big ache in the head.

I've never felt like I needed them duck hunting though except in a pit. I had a rookie ring my ears so bad in a pit that I thought I had been shot in the side of the head. Couldn't see straight for several minutes. When I recovered enough to be able to hear myself cuss I gave the poor guy a curring to remember.

[Buckwabit]

I had alot of ear problems as a kid and lost about 40% of hearing in both ears. I'm deaf. I couldn't imagine wearing earplugs too.

[Super-X]

Have used the foam ones on occaision, but after hunting out of a pit this year....I'll be sure to have something when pit hunting from now on

[cwink]

Huh? What did you say??? I need to get me some of those for sure..