Dec
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I suppose the question would be why. Those things are murder on your
ears outside and every insult to your ears will hurt you later.
Sometimes you just have to believe. ;-)

I never fired a round of anything in my range in Md without muffs.
I was in the house when we had an AD of a 12 gauge tho and it was
impressive.
.......
40 years ago I lived in an old farm house and shot my 357 into a big block of wood at the bottom of an enclosed stairwell. All I heard was an enormously loud “BONK!!!”

I thought the precession had blown both eardrums-thankfully not. But I’ve had a subtle hissing in both ears even to this day.