Gunfire Sound Levels

[Pa.Bill]

Found this site: www.freehearingtest.com/hia_gunfirenoise.shtml

You can take a free hearing test and the site also gives dB's for centerfire rifles, handguns and shotguns.

Example: .357 mag dB rating is 165. 2mil seconds of .357 dB is equal to over
40 hours in a noisy work place.

The test is interesting ......I failed the last question - Actually I couldn't
hear it. So, my hearing is not 100%. Wondering how others will do?

~GOOD LUCK~
Bill---------------------------->

[Punisher]

past them all no prob, but my hearing is a little better than average........those are all supposed to be audible to the average human ear. the funnest one i took was the one for the military when you sit in the little booth with the headphones on.............

[knighthawk06699]

I passed all three, but in hind sight when I went in to the Air Force at my entry physical and hearing tests the lady asked me "'I bet you can hear a mouse piss on a cotton ball, can't you?"

[PossumBackstrap]

100% pretty easy. And that's after years of gunfire and machineguns in the Marines and hunting and shooting all my life. Ever run across a guy who can't hear a rattlesnake? Man that's scary when you're jumping out of the way and they're just standing there looking at you wondering what in the heck you're doing.

[Pa.Bill]

Just took the test again.
This time I did hear the last sound. Wonder if drinking beer has anything to do with it. (Did have some the first time)

Rattlesnake----The site does have a list of different sounds you can click on.
Rattlesnake is one.

~BEST~
Bill---------------->

[NathanW]

DAMNIT, I am deaf, LOL, but I already knew that! right ear is useless, and left ear is not far behind!