not sure where this question goes but i am thinking it goes here, anyways, when y'all hunt, do y'all wear any ear protections? i have never hunt before and thinking about starting next year, i been wanting to upgrade my big ol shooting range ear muffler to something smaller and those caught my eyes...

I try to always wear some sort of ear protection when I shoot. I've lost too much of my hearing ability already. I have the ear muff type but 99% of the time I use the little foam type ear plugs. I can carry those around in my pocket and have them with me all the time. Using anything is better than nothing.

I use them and they work GREAT. If I'm at a range and it gets loud I put my muffs over them.

i am thinking about placing order for 2 or so pair, i use the foam ones, small plastic ones and pretty much anything else walmart offers

I think amazon has them. They fit well in the ear, and keep sound out. That's what matters.

Surefire it self has them, but I placed my order from optics planet, same price as surefire site and everywhere else, but its free shipping and 5% off

I've used four pairs.

My first pair i used on duty, and a running F-16 jet engine went from being insanely loud to a "whirrrr" doing an alarm response. I also used them to shoot a machine gun qualification in a semi-indoor range. 5,000 rounds of 7.62mm on full auto in 2 hours, anytime we weren't firing i heard fine. Everyone else was plugged and muffed and couldn't hear squat at any time. They aren't as good as electronic earpro, but for situations where you need to hear except when you fire and electronic muffs are not workable, they do VERY well. I wear mine hunting.


The only reason I've had more than one pair is the first fell on the floor of a Humvee (no 5 second rule, i wasn't sticking those back in my ears....), the second stays as a backup in my range bag and the other two are in my various sets of bailout bags for hunting/end of the world/whatever.

cool, i got three different model to try it out, at 13 to 14 bucks it ain't too bad, hell, i paid 40 for my muffler and it was just okay, nothing superb or great, as for foam ones, i hated those, takes forever just to shove it in my ear, plastic one with cord r okay, i guess i get what i paid for, hopefully those earpro will serve me well

If you need to hear/shoot, leave the little plug thing out on it's tab. If you need full earplug protection, stick it in.

aaah, i see... can't wait til it arrives and then head to the range and try it out...

I wear ear protection when I'm shooting and regret that I always haven't. Who knew? However, when I'm hunting, I don't. I want to hear everything around me and don't figure one shot will be a problem.