Best Hearing Protection for Shooting 2023 Part 1

Best Hearing Protection for Shooting 2023 - First 5 Tests!

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Please comment below with your favorite hearing pro . Has your experience been different than mine?

[joysun]

Thank you for the straightforward no BS comment! Very helpful!

[Theelax]

Funny this is about sound. If I turn it down to where the shots don't annoy me, I can't hear you.

[justmelissa]

I bought the Walker 100 Xcel Digital Electronic Muff w/ voice clarity and my husband and son Love them! Now they are not the razors, so I know they’re different, but they’re still made by Walker and they said that they work great! To each their own.

[TheRichieBen]

4:58 you mean Howard Light Impact Pro. Not Walkers. No such thing as Walkers Impact Pro. Thank.

[keplergso]

I bought a 32dB electronic ear defender, not too expensive (100/110€ in Europe) : the Peltor ProTac Shooter (green), especially made for big and sudden noises, like shots fire, it gives 32dB attenuation. At this price, most of ear defenders gives only 26dB attenuation.The same model exists too for big and long noises (big machines) : the Peltor ProTac III (black), same price. But the shells are big, so, potentially, I'll use my old passive Peltor X4 (32dB) which has thin shells, to shoot with my 308 rifle at shooting range, in order to more easily shoulder the butt.

[keesketsers]

In Holland, pretty much all pro (and enthousiastic amateur) shooters wear MSA / Sordin Supreme. The rest wears 3M Peltor (so do I, Peltor Sporttac). Walker, Howard Leight and others are very rarely seen. Some people wear a cheap chinese copy of one of the other brands but I would NEVER gamble my hearing for a cheap price. Those chinese copies are not tested and some sounds that wreck your hearing cannot be easily heard. So even if it sounds quiet, you can still get hearing damage. Just get the good stuff like 3M or Sordin.

[davidmcclain]

Thank you for the informative video. I am a new gun owner and I bought the HL Impact Sport. Went to a gun range two days ago and my right ear is still plugged. And they were not very comfortable just as you described. I just sent them back and I'm going to try the HL Pro.

[dougumbarger]

So..the ENTIRE point of hearing protection is, well, HEARING PROTECTION right? So not one mention of the decibel rating (level of protection) on any of these in your video? SERIOUSLY? Comfort is secondary at best, and it's all you talked about.

[Blueknight]

What I'm hearing (pun intended) is that the best hearing protection is the cheap foamy ear plugs or the silicon ear plugs and stay away from the expensive electronic hearing protection all together.

[MargeSimpsons]

Well, thank you for the shooting sound on the back that I didn't want to hear, so unpleasant sound exactly why I wanted to check which noise cancelling is best instead got annoyed by the unwanted sound 🙄

[Fatal-fzqi]

You must’ve got some defective Axils because they are fantastic

[alwaysrockn]

So, you were mentioning a Walker Pro but held up a HL Pro. So, the winner is the HL Pro then, right, aside from the Pro Ear?

[kenohki]

Everyone has their own opinion. However, I bought both the Axil and the Walker Razors. My experience in an indoor range was similar to what you described in that I found both Axil and Razor severely lacking. After I heard the first shot fired from three booths down, I literally ran out of the range to put on my $14 H*** F**** active headset back on which worked so much better. Same thing when I tried the Razor headset. Looking at the Peltor and AKT, but for now, still using my bulky $14 ones.

[mozemorze]

Do headphones properly attenuate sounds at closed ranges? I work at a shooting range, sometimes spending up to 12 h nonstop there. I need something that very well suppresses the sound of firing both from 9mm and 7.62 greetings

[WilliamRepsher]

Spend once cry once, buy quality 200-300 and have them for 6-10 years or buy budget and rebuy it over and over with lower overall user experience. Buy MSA Sordin, OTTO, maybe not AMPs but you get what I’m saying, I’m guilty too, I have a garage full of garbage to prove it. Trust me spend for quality on your ear pro. You won’t regret it.

[gregbeall]

I prefer the Walker Excel versions over the Razors

[GUARDIAN.]

The newer walker xtrm set is pretty nice

[dezibeldani]

2:37 "SHOTS FIRED! SHOTS FIRED!"
3:08 again...
3:48 and again...
4:46 well, that's the last one

[josephbishop]

I take it the impact pro's are Howard Leight not Walker

[scamperstephen]

I traveled 7 hours trip bought myself a set of impact sport H light they are crap mate, buy once cry once get the pelators only one set of ears mate don’t waste them