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[I Dont Care About You]

Hope you like tinnitus... Silencer Central says a Ruger 10/22 is aprox. 140db. Meanwhile 120bd is enough to cause instant damage and 85bd sustained is also enough to cause damage... Sure your longer barrels will bring that down a bit but nowhere near low enough to actually be hearing safe...

This is not correct. You are confusing constant, steady state noise with impulse noise and the two are very different. The OSHA limit for hearing damage from impulse noise is 140dB. Most long barrelled 22 rimfire rifles will approximate 140dB at the muzzle, which means they are 5-7dB less at the shooter's ear.

Sound tested according to MIL Std 1474 D, the firing pin drop on a rimfire rifle will run to 108dB.

 

[I Dont Care About You]

So sorry Mr "real shooter", please forgive my ignorance. I must have been delirious when I was bored as fu¢k all those years shooting your holy cartridge. I'll dust them off and have the time of my life. Woohoo, I can hardly wait, soon I'll be a "real shooter" too. Yippee.

Not interested in a di¢k measuring contest. The fudds get all uppity when the obvious is pointed out. Shoot your squirrels, .22's are boring and barely a step above air rifles, one should be able to point that out without the oldies freaking out.

Try shooting gophers at 200+ yds with a rimfire in a crosswind and I guarantee you its not boring ... unless you are incapable and can't manage to hit anything.

With my 22 target rifle I can run 80% or better on gopher headshots out to 70-80 yds. THAT is good fun.

 

[Pringlescanopen]

This is not correct. You are confusing constant, steady state noise with impulse noise and the two are very different. The OSHA limit for hearing damage from impulse noise is 140dB. Most long barrelled 22 rimfire rifles will approximate 140dB at the muzzle, which means they are 5-7dB less at the shooter's ear.

Sound tested according to MIL Std 1474 D, the firing pin drop on a rimfire rifle will run to 108dB.

I was one of those poor kids that had to hold the speakers to my KISS music right beside my ears for best effect. Then did some shooting without earplugs (a lot), but in open fields, and then got monitors thru my 20s. Hearing is perfect, apparently, since going to the ear doctor recently about not being able to understand conversations when there is a large background music. He stated, " well, that's more of a cognitive thing" LOL Okay. Thanks.lol

On a more serious note, if hearing is affecting you, and you test ok, you should keep checking why hearing is an issue.

 

[Pringlescanopen]

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Thanks, Gerard, appreciated, but Canuck is right. One being, I am too noob for this forum regarding sights for typing explanation. My guns days were before internet and this is the first time I'm seeing this stuff. Huge, but love Canada more and more the more I am seeing.

 

[GerardSamija]

... since going to the ear doctor recently about not being able to understand conversations when there is a large background music. He stated, " well, that's more of a cognitive thing" LOL Okay.

That's been a thing for me my whole life. Anything in the midrange vocal region, 'white noise' or actual conversations nearby, the radio chatterboxes yammering about something, traffic, even heavy rain. My ability to decipher what someone is saying right next to me dwindles rapidly with any of that. But my hearing in general is if anything too good. I hear those 'mosquito alarm' things they use to drive away teenagers, though I'm 62. When I was in high school band the teacher tested everyone's ability to hear the lowest intervals and name them from his piano, and I 'won' thus qualifying to play the bass. Loud noises hurt, so I have custom fitted silicone ear plugs which go past the second bend of my ear canals. Makes for an advantage in my work; setting up violin family instruments for optimum sound. But definitely a mixed blessing. Too often I overhear conversations I wish I'd not.

 

[Pringlescanopen]

That's been a thing for me my whole life. Anything in the midrange vocal region, 'white noise' or actual conversations nearby, the radio chatterboxes yammering about something, traffic, even heavy rain. My ability to decipher what someone is saying right next to me dwindles rapidly with any of that. But my hearing in general is if anything too good. I hear those 'mosquito alarm' things they use to drive away teenagers, though I'm 62. When I was in high school band the teacher tested everyone's ability to hear the lowest intervals and name them from his piano, and I 'won' thus qualifying to play the bass. Loud noises hurt, so I have custom fitted silicone ear plugs which go past the second bend of my ear canals. Makes for an advantage in my work; setting up violin family instruments for optimum sound. But definitely a mixed blessing. Too often I overhear conversations I wish I'd not.

I hear that! Just smoked me with the cognition part.lol Makes me think holding speakers to my ears (which all did no doubt) was more a get it all deal.lol

That said, your Violin tuning puts us at an entirely different wavelngth. Kudos!

 

[Pringlescanopen]

I used to have a ruger 22 that looked tactical about 30 years ago, and it had one of those flash muzzzles at the end of the barrel. Can you get them with the ruger 9mm carbine? I ask because looking down the pipe I see that the hand holder on the barrel is not on cue with the barrel. It's kind of annoying. My hand is pointing more right where my barrel is pointing more left. Slightly, but annoying. I suspect the case it's in assuming they leave factory 100%

I understand with a red dot or scope, its fine, but still annoying and I also think it looks better anyway. Knew there was something suspect about those awesome looking cages.