TIPS

Tip from: Andy Tannock

Whether clay bustin' or copping the blast of magnum ammo at close quarters in a maimai, we do urge hunters to take the responsibility to protect their hearing. I personally resisted wearing ear-muffs duck hunting for years, even though my hearing is already scratchy. To me it was more important not to miss out on hearing some incoming birds, than to wear 'sissy' ear-muffs. Last season I tried a set of Peltor Electronic muffs and was astounded to learn that I shot just as well with them on as without. Better still, the microphones in them picked up even more sound than my un-muffed ears could - in other words I could hear more not less!