Indoor shooting is nice because you have automatic targets that can be set at predetermined distances, and you don't have to walk back and forth to study the target, or change them. One thing I would like to know is, in your own personal training, when your outdoors, do you think you should take a couple practice shots without hearing protection, so when you need to use your weapon/firearm, in an quick situation you will be accostomed to the sound, and therefor more natural to your shooting?
before you do the hearing rant on me just so you know I never used hearing protection in the military, and I also used to play heavy metal guitar (very loud), and my hearing is better than most people
I would hate to find out in a life-or-death, self defense situation, what my personal defense firearm sounded like, "without hearing protection". Especially if the shot was inside a building, and all you know is how it operates while wearing hearing protection. That right there could develop a "flinch" in someone so fast they might be too disoriented for a follow up shot. Although this type of training is too extreme for most of the folks here, I always want an advantage of knowing what I face, and how I will have to deal with the reaction. NOTE* I would never fire indoors without hearing protection for training purposes (although I have been exposed to the level of shock from sound waves, I use that as experience)
before you do the hearing rant on me just so you know I never used hearing protection in the military, and I also used to play heavy metal guitar (very loud), and my hearing is better than most people
I would hate to find out in a life-or-death, self defense situation, what my personal defense firearm sounded like, "without hearing protection". Especially if the shot was inside a building, and all you know is how it operates while wearing hearing protection. That right there could develop a "flinch" in someone so fast they might be too disoriented for a follow up shot. Although this type of training is too extreme for most of the folks here, I always want an advantage of knowing what I face, and how I will have to deal with the reaction. NOTE* I would never fire indoors without hearing protection for training purposes (although I have been exposed to the level of shock from sound waves, I use that as experience)