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Originally Posted by chuck
I’m talking about your ears. You know. Adding a break. Permanent damage to your hearing.
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I had a friend by a Tikka T3 superlite in 300wsm last spring, he brought it over to sight in. After the first couple times shooting he decided he wanted a brake on it. He came back the third time with the brake installed, shot it off the bench and loved it.
Fast forward to this fall. I told him if he’s going to shoot that rifle with the brake on that he had better pack ear protection. “Naw, I won’t even notice the bang while I’m hunting......”
Well the moose ran out, the gun went boom.... boom.... boom.
Once we met up he unknowingly yelled “My ears are eff’d up! The first shot really hurt but the next two weren’t so bad”
His hearing was shot for two days then slowly started to recover. I’ll take recoil over hearing loss any day of the week.