Thread: Dont take hearing protection lightly

Originally Posted by 6x47

Syringing with water is higher risk and less efficient.

I had been using a 12ga on rabbits, and put cotton wool in my left ear to kill the noise (ear plugs weren't as common 30 years ago as now). Some of it must've stayed in my lug hole afterwards.

A few days later I got into a mud fight at the riverbank, and copped a handful in the side of my head at close range. Some of the mud also stayed behind and mixed with the cotton wool to form a pretty effective seal that vibrated at certain frequencies.

I found this out one morning a day or so later while playing bass in church. Any time I played a low G the cotton/mud mix vibrated with a loud WWHHAANNGGGG noise that made it very hard to concentrate on playing the song. Which was awkward, because there were a lot of G notes in it .

Off to the doctors a few days later. After the usual chitchat he pulled out a syringe big enough to innoculate a mastodon with, filled it with water, stuck it in my left lughole, and fair leaned on it. He was not gentle at all.

I was looking out to the right hand side, waiting for a plume of water to spray out the other earhole, but to my surprise it it never came .
A fair fackin' torrent of mud, water and bits of cotton wool did come out my left one though.

Syringing hurts.