Frag Out! Magazine
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Earmuffs The basic hearing protectors used at the public, com- mercial shooting ranges. Cheap, rather comfortable, which ensure a fair level of protection and which do not require acrobatics when inserting them. Furthermore, easy when it comes to maintaining them clean. They consist of the flexible headband (in the cheaper versions – from plastic, in the more expensive – from the flat metal spring, coated by, e.g. plastic) and softly padded plastic cups which cover the ear concha. The cups are generally filled with sponge with small cells, and an insulation level is improved by filling the cup cover which adheres to the head. They are available in many colors and shapes of the cups – those intended for the shooters have even ap- propriate cuts which facilitate shooting from the long guns. Some models (e.g. Peltor Shotgunner) have a possibility of folding by putting cups into the head- band what significantly reduces their size during the transport. A range of attenuation of the passive hearing protec- tors is more or less as the SNR of 21–31 dB, depend- ing on the producer and their design (that is a de facto cup size). Those more round attenuate better, but they also may interfere with the butts and generally they make shooting more difficult. You cannot stand anything what is inserted into your ear? You don't have cash to spend money on the ac- tive hearing protectors because you have just began your adventure with shooting? It is a solution for you. We started with such, as well. ;) A general disadvantage of all passive hearing pro- tectors is a very hindered use of the cell phones – it is eliminated only by the active hearing pro- tectors about which we will write in the next part of the article. Shooting Complex protectors Peltor www.fragoutmag.com