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Might not be the gunshot after all. Left ear 100% wax blockage, right ear 95% wax blockage. They are going to flush the ears with a special compound. No wonder the world was going dull and muffled!
I set off a large fire cracker in the basement when I was eight and still have the ringing, I will say that shooting trap and skeet for many years without ear protection, the shootem up in Vietnam and working construction may have reinforced the ringing but it has only been 62 yrs now , I guess in 20-30 yrs it will no longer be a problem. It isn't all bad if your married, at least you have one good excuse.
It isn't all bad if your married, at least you have one good excuse.Men in my family go deaf as a post in mid to late 70s. I have always said it was a defensive mechanism against a nagging old wife. Got my butt stomped a few times for that remark when I was a young smart mouth. Women in my family got them some nasty Irish tempers. They also got a Mickey mouth, and God put their volume control in backward, telling them to stop yelling in your ears only turns up the volume.