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You should start shooting a smaller caliber and work out the flinch if it
It's got an Accubrake on it now
Yep, you can do a whole lot better than that.
Both my cousins were in M1 Abrams in Desert Storm. One of was outside the tank taking a wizz and his crew fired the 120 mm cannon . It knocked him flat and lost hearing in one ear permently , other some loss. I don't remember for sure but I thought he said it knocked him out also ? My other cousin told me one night they picked up a tank with night vision or infrared. You send a laser signal and other tank or Bradley sends one back. If not it's an Iraqi T70 or whatever. No laser back. Boom. Dead tank and occupants . It was an allied French tank . There was more collateral kills in that short war than by the Iraqi's. Very sad.
I have and use Walkers Ears hearing aid/hearing protection and they work well. But I must admit I do not wear hearing protection when hunting.
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Lol ! I'm in same boat . I bought walker ear buds to wear hunting last year and didn't wear them. My hearing is toast. I wear hearing aides. One time I shot my 300 RUM with them in. I has a brake. I thought I scrambled my brain .I have and use Walkers Ears hearing aid/hearing protection and they work well. But I must admit I do not wear hearing protection when hunting.
I feel so much better now that I got that off my chest
WOW!!
I used them too or the yellow foamies, but I also used a headset over them. That was the standard-issue item for PPE, but most only wear one or the other. I used both from 1986-1996 while working flightline aircraft maintenance and still wear them today.
I understand the muzzle blast from tank cannon. In Vietnam at a fire support base, we were getting hit that night. So we were on the perimeter with our rifles giving supporting fire. A Sheridan Tank was setting up to fire their main gun. It's a 152mm cannon. (I believe the velocity is much faster in 120mm cannon, than the 152mm gun, which would I believe it would create greater damage to your ears). We were next to it. We pulled back so he fire. They couldn't get it to fire. We moved up again to put supporting fire. This went on three time or so. Anyway we would move up each time to put supporting fire. So they did get the cannon to fire, but we were even with the muzzle. I throw my rifle up in the air, and at the same time watch the man next to be do a complete 360 flit from being flat footed. He hit the ground. Me being a medic attended to him. He was bleeding from both ears. There was several minutes before I could hear. I grab him and took him to the Aid Station on the fire support base. Why the same thing didn't happen to me I don't know. My ear ring from that time on. About a month or so later I was on the left side of an APC when we hit a 40lbs land mine on the left side. Getting a heavy blast from the land mine, again and I couldn't hear for awhile. My hearing came back, but the ringing increased.
