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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NDbowman" data-source="post: 333395" data-attributes="member: 1525">Like everyone else on here, I too suffer from hearing loss and ringing of the ears. I worked around loud equipment and tractors, shot lots of guns, hunted with a crazy unsafe bunch when i was a teenager, many times someone would touch of a round to close to your ear, or one goofy bastard fired a 243 over me and another guys head to scare us, he was on a porch and we were sitting below it, also blew up a 12 guage barrel. All that was without hearing protection. I got tested when I was 19 and was told my left ear was a candidate for a hearing aid. I wore ear plugs pretty much ever since while shooting, hunting, or around equipment. I don't think my hearing has gotten much worse but I really wish I'd wore hearing protection sooner and try to give people ear plugs when ever they come to target shoot if they don't have any. I've wanted to try a custom set of electronic hearing protection ear plugs but haven't yet, years ago I tried walkers game ear and hated how the wind blowing on them made noise and didn't like the way normal sounds sounded.Now i almost always carry a corded pair of 3M push in plugs. the ones you roll up and sitck in your ear are better but the pushin ones work better for me with dirty hands or if you need to remove them to hear someone.</blockquote>