HayesGreener
Ronin
Yes, and you have access to a backhoe...
Easiest home defense gun on the ears
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TEXASforLIFE
SAINT
I might have some work for him
Lexie__M
Custom
Someone in my neighborhood has one of these.
After a heavy rainstorm, I find the blue with orange tips bullets in my front yard
Recusant
Hellcat
I forgot to mention when I posted this that while you need shells for a gun you will need poison for your darts to make them most effective. Hence, you'll need a supply of these little creatures:
But before you rush out to your pet store this is a virtual video worth watching:
Second thought, I'll just risk losing my hearing!
Snake45
Professional
Outrageous! Why can ordinary American citizens own Poison Frogs? Only the Police and the Military should have Poison Frogs!
HayesGreener
Ronin
Tragically, every year thousands of young toad lickers die from mistaking poison frogs for hallucinogenic toads, despite "Just say no to toad licking" programs in elementary schools. Mexican Poison Frog cartels persist in smuggling poison frogs across the uncontrolled Texas and Arizona borders as the frog poisonings continue to mount.Outrageous! Why can ordinary American citizens own Poison Frogs? Only the Police and the Military should have Poison Frogs!
The Texas program of shipping huge terrariums of frogs to New York and Chicago has brought an outcry from the left. Frog Lives Matter activists have in protest hijacked truckloads of the frogs and released them into the rivers, lakes, and streams, sending them back to nature where they belong.
French chefs have offered to assist with a cuisses de grenouille festival but frog rights protestors have threatened a boycott.
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The Night Rider
Professional
You didn't offend me.I understood it perfectly. I thought I had a somewhat similar "alarm at work" story that was amusing. Sorry to have offended you.
To clarify the point that I was trying to make, my tinnitus is bad enough that I mistook the alarm for my ears ringing.
There wasn't any other causative factor.
The Night Rider
Professional
I did irreparable damage to my ears the very first time I did this.
I take these hearing loss discussions very seriously because (like many here) I'm living with the results of not taking preventative measures.
my wife almost gave up on watching TV with me because I either had it so loud the neighbors could hear it or I had the captions on which bothered her to no end. Captions make it very hard to watch anything on TV because your trying to keep up with reading the dialog and watching the action.
It was almost impossible to have a conversation with (anyone really) my grand beasts
The people I worked with got really tired of repeating themselves to me. I frequently got in trouble for not answering radio calls. and using a telephone was impossible.
One of the coolest features on my hearing aids is that I can route my phone calls through them. I still hate talking on the phone but at least now I can hear who's pissing me off.
I even occasionally read posts from stupid people on the internet saying that they occasionally shoot without hearing protection to get their ears used to it.
Your ears don't get used to it, you just go Deaf
rcurtner
Professional
Same at my house. I've gone through quite a few pairs of hearing aids over the past 35 years. The VA has been very good to me.
Bassbob
Emissary
Between riding a fire engine for several years as a young man and 60 years of shooting everything from a .22 to a 12 lb Napoleon cannon I get to listed to the little crickets 24/7
Belt Fed
Ronin
Seen people shooting rifles with muzzle brakes with no protection. I don't like shooting a brake with protection.
Snake45
Professional
And I realized, too late for the edit, that I didn't tell my story quite right.
My building's fire alarm (it was VERY loud, and it was a fire drill) just happened to be the exact same tone as the last note of Clarence Clemons' sax solo. My initial thought was, "MAN, that Clarence Clemons can really hold a note!"
The Night Rider
Professional
old but still kicking
Elite
Ya gotta love the Far Side stuff. What a hilarious bunch of comedy that Gary Larson I think it was used to create.
Belt Fed
Ronin
The green woman was kinda hawt.
I'd stay with the 12 ga. Thats what I use for HD. Get a linear compensator/flash can at least 3 inches long. Send that blast in the direction of the intruder. (he'll be disorentented) as well as 9 big ole pellets. (00 Buck) Don't think you will notice the blast signature with the high level of adrenalin being released. With that load in a 12 gauge, 1 or 2 shots, only one side of the story will be told afterwords. If you use a pistol or revolver, you might want to practice to see how well you can place multiple shots on target. Adrenaline makes us do funny things. Thats a lot more input for your ears by the way.