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<blockquote data-quote="Tom_C" data-source="post: 2126892" data-attributes="member: 105172"><p>OK, so you had never heard of electronic hearing protection (I'm not sure how you could have missed it if your ever go online on any hunting or shooting websites). Electronic hearing protection uses ear plugs or ear muffs with electronic circuitry where there is a microphone on the outside, a miniature speaker inside, and the electronics act like a hearing aid to pass through the sound. They will have a volume control that lets you set whether the normal sound is reduced or about normal, or amplified, but the electronic circuit monitors the sound and cuts off completely whenever the outside sound is too loud.</p><p></p><p>Cheap systems cost as little as $30-40 for electronic ear muffs that are ok for casual range shooting, better systems using muffs or ear plugs cost $100 or more (some much more). All work reasonably well at blocking shooting noise, but the better systems work much better at giving you natural sound and avoiding wind noise. The better systems also generally recover more quickly after the shot (the cheapest systems might take as much as 1/2 second after a shot before the sound comes back on).</p><p></p><p>I don't want to be <em>that guy</em>, but why did you buy a rifle with a muzzle brake if you don't want one.</p><p></p><p>Since you never heard of electronic hearing protection, perhaps you also didn't know that the muzzle brake on your rifle is simply screwed on the end of the barrel and can just be unscrewed and removed. If you want to put the muzzle brake back on afterwards you will probably need to buy a "crush washer" but those are cheap. The crush washer isn't absolutely essential, but it is needed if you expect to get the muzzle brake installed where it is both tight <em>and</em> properly oriented. You might also want to get a "thread protector" to screw on the threads while the muzzle brake is removed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tom_C, post: 2126892, member: 105172"] OK, so you had never heard of electronic hearing protection (I'm not sure how you could have missed it if your ever go online on any hunting or shooting websites). Electronic hearing protection uses ear plugs or ear muffs with electronic circuitry where there is a microphone on the outside, a miniature speaker inside, and the electronics act like a hearing aid to pass through the sound. They will have a volume control that lets you set whether the normal sound is reduced or about normal, or amplified, but the electronic circuit monitors the sound and cuts off completely whenever the outside sound is too loud. Cheap systems cost as little as $30-40 for electronic ear muffs that are ok for casual range shooting, better systems using muffs or ear plugs cost $100 or more (some much more). All work reasonably well at blocking shooting noise, but the better systems work much better at giving you natural sound and avoiding wind noise. The better systems also generally recover more quickly after the shot (the cheapest systems might take as much as 1/2 second after a shot before the sound comes back on). I don't want to be [I]that guy[/I], but why did you buy a rifle with a muzzle brake if you don't want one. Since you never heard of electronic hearing protection, perhaps you also didn't know that the muzzle brake on your rifle is simply screwed on the end of the barrel and can just be unscrewed and removed. If you want to put the muzzle brake back on afterwards you will probably need to buy a "crush washer" but those are cheap. The crush washer isn't absolutely essential, but it is needed if you expect to get the muzzle brake installed where it is both tight [I]and[/I] properly oriented. You might also want to get a "thread protector" to screw on the threads while the muzzle brake is removed. [/QUOTE]
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