[REVIEW] Etymotic Gunsport Pro Hearing Protection Earplugs

By James England

“WHAT?!”

“HUH?!”

The two most common things said whenever I’m at the gun range talking to anyone around me. I keep telling myself it’s just practice for when I get really old and my hearing degrades but the truth is, I need to conserve my hearing now.

Hearing is one of those senses that once you start to lose it, you never get it back. As a veteran, I’ll occasionally be reminded of this when I hear a sharp whistle of tinnitus and think to myself it’s the slow death rattle of my ear drums.

Thankfully, I have a great opportunity to try out something that can help preserve the hearing I have left and make it easy to communicate with others. Several months back, I got my hands on some Etymotic Gunsport Pro Hearing Protection Earplugs. These earplugs aren’t the normal ten cent plugs I normally throw in.

These Etymotic Gunsport Earplugs are specifically designed to amplify ambient noise by up to five times while protecting against the sharp report of a gunshot. The Gunsport Earplugs give me a 15 decibel range of automatic hearing protection. So, when the range is hot, and shots are firing, I can filter out damaging levels of noise …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation