Thread: What would your ultimate Bush Pig rifle build be and what NZ gunsmith would you use?

Originally Posted by deer243

... I know many old time shooters and alot of their hearing is fine,but those ones that arent told me they used to fire untold shots without hearing protection and often sighted in whereever without hearing protection and still arnt stone deaf. ..

The trouble with those observations is that casually talking to a person face-to-face doesn't give an accurate indication of what their hearing is like less-than-ideal situations , especially in background noise. I would say well over half of my patients who wear their hearing aids -all- the time can still hear me fact-to-face without their aids . But they are hopeless at distance, with any quieter/female voices and most particularly if there is -any- background noise about. They often avoid social events because they know they will be reduced to guessing what's being said and making embarrassing mistakes from guessing.

If someone is obviously "deaf", their loss would be making their life and all those around them miserable. I can tell you shooting does your hearing no favours and adding age to that is inevitable.