Gun Noise protection

I'm looking into noise protection for shooting firearms. I have profound loss and it is important I protect what little hearing I have left. Particularly, I'm looking for protection when shooting an M1 Garand (168 db). Does anyone use electronic ear muffs? Beyond ear drum damage, does the protection you wear also guard against other types for loss?

Ive always used the silicone cone shaped inserts with multi ribbs on them, it completely blocks out everything.
The ear cups, electronic ones allow to hear a person but cuts off at louder dbs

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Found this article:
G&A Basics: The Science of Hearing Protection - Guns & Ammo

The author is hearing impaired.

VacationGuy234 said:

I'm looking into noise protection for shooting firearms. I have profound loss and it is important I protect what little hearing I have left. Particularly, I'm looking for protection when shooting an M1 Garand (168 db). Does anyone use electronic ear muffs? Beyond ear drum damage, does the protection you wear also guard against other types for loss?

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electronic ear muffs? no you don't need that. the reason for this is because hearing people don't have to repeatedly remove their ear muffs after shooting to communicate with with people. and it's pretty expensive.

you should look for higher-rating earmuffs (anywhere that's close to NRR 30). or just take off your hearing aids and put in ear plugs and then wear earmuffs.