Firearms and Ear Plugs

While at the rifle range, using foam ear plugs is essential. Some won’t even permit you to shoot without them! Certainly, it’s exciting to experience such a sound directly, personally, in real life, a sound that’s been processed for you through countless movies and television shows — nothing can compare to it, regardless of how realistic an audio set-up you have for your home theater! But the ear is a delicate thing, and hearing one of our most essential senses (to be sure, all of them are important, but imagining life without sight or sound mysteriously seems so much more tragic than one without smell or taste, sad as those losses would be, too), so protecting those delicate hairs within our ears is important.