Frag Out! Magazine
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9 mm rounds Yes, especially among the old shooters, mainly with a duty past, you can meet persons who use this substitute. To tell you the truth, I personally used such a protection during my military service be- cause an alternative consisted in… nothing. In the best case you could find the devastated protectors for the "jackhammer" (you know, such gray, with the earmuffs made from the oil-cloth), which were fair- ly average.Regrettably, an ammunition used as the earplugs has more disadvantages than advantages. It is not a hygienic solution, and in the extreme case also lead to the irritations, inflammatory condi- tions or allergic reactions. The rounds pushed into the ears are slightly stable, and sound attenuation, which is from an assumption particularly not good, in 100% depends on the size of the ear canal.A level of attenuation - not measurable. After static shooting these "protectors" are placed in the ear somehow, but during the dynamic shoot- ings their falling out is only a matter of time, and consequently it may lead to either hearing impair- ment (if a shooter decides to continue shooting) or an accident (if a shooter tries to correct a position of such an "earplug" with a hand in which he holds a weapon). We decidedly advise against. PPE