Who Hunts Using Suppressed Guns?

[omicron1792]

May have issues

What kind of issues?

 

[Mudguts83]

I plan to. Got the cash saved for the milling. Will need to save a bit more for the suppressor. I don't hike with earmuffs and the in-ears (that I've bought) don't seem to do the trick. I don't want to be deaf by 60, so a 1k bucks for prevention will end up being worth it.

 

[sandhillhunter]

If you think suppressors are expensive, try $8,000 for hearing aids every few years. I got hearing aids at age 50 after years of hunting (waterfowl, upland, and big game) without ear pro. (I realize you don’t have to spend $8k but i have bad tinnitus and the newer technology is supposed to be better at helping it). And i saw my dad practically deaf at 65 even with hearing aids and i wanted to try and prevent that.

Once I started realizing I had a problem, i began wearing hearing protection for everything- including shop and yard tools, and double ear pro for range time.

But, due to the cumulative nature of hearing loss, it was too late.

Now I have a couple of suppressors and don’t think I’ll ever shoot a center fire rifle without one again unless my life depends on it.


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[streamerfish]

I’d keep the $350 swfa and go factory on all the rest if it was the difference between suppressor or not.

yeah.....I will see how it goes when i get to shooting with the SWFA. I would like one, especially after being at UM and they took shot a couple rounds with one on for me to hear. It seemed like a pretty significant difference to me.

 

[cams]

+1 for hunting suppressed.
Found it helpful to teach my kids rifle shooting suppressed. Easy transition to hunting, they can concentrate on the trigger press and not worry about a loud bang.
Can be a huge pain hiking around brush with a suppressed rifle though.

 

[Kimber7man]

I’m glad I didn’t suppress the rock and roll music of the 80s.

A lot of you guys missed that
And that’s a shame

2nd row at the 1984 tour in Indy, my ears rang for almost a week….