Electronic Ear Defenders

minktrapper

I am looking for electronic ear defenders. Preferably fairly new ones. Definitely not ones that are old and maybe not functioning properly.

Bogwoppit

I have these; Honeywell 1013530 Howard Leight Impact Sport Earmuff https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001T7QJ9O/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_GkT8yb028A728

I find them excellent

Luckysasha

I Second that. Great ear defenders and I got mine for €25 in an Amazon sale. I use them for everything from cutting the grass to a day at the pistol range.

Captainaxiom

You won't get better in that pice range than the Howard leight

minktrapper

I posted this in the wanted/for sale section. I don't know how it ended up here. Thanks for the replies anyhow.

minktrapper

Luckysasha wrote: »

I Second that. Great ear defenders and I got mine for €25 in an Amazon sale. I use them for everything from cutting the grass to a day at the pistol range.

Where did they come from. A lot of stores won't send them to Ireland.

Bogwoppit

minktrapper wrote: »

Where did they come from. A lot of stores won't send them to Ireland.

Use parcel motel or an equivalent.

Captainaxiom

Or An Post addressspal

minktrapper

Captainaxiom wrote: »

Or An Post addressspal

Any idea what they charge?

Bogwoppit

I think it's €3.80.

minktrapper

Can anybody enlighten me as to the difference between the ear defenders mentioned above and 3M Peltor sport tac electronic ear muffs. They have a 26 dB rating.

hedzball

minktrapper wrote: »

Can anybody enlighten me as to the difference between the ear defenders mentioned above and 3M Peltor sport tac electronic ear muffs. They have a 26 dB rating.

I can. As I've had both.

The Howard Leights are a great muff and comfortable work just as well as the 3m ones.

The 3m in terms of build and comfort are in another level again. I could wear them for 5+ hours and they're sitting on without need to realign in a hurry.


The only issue is the price but....

I got together with a few buddys and bought 4 from the states through ebay delivered and tax paid we got them for 55e a set :pac::pac:


I'd go 3m if you can get them .. I wouldn't be paying 80-100 quid for them like they are in the UK



'hdz

minktrapper

Are they any better at hearing protection rather than just comfort. Extra comfort is great but hearing protection is what I am more interested in. I saw somewhere that it takes a certain amount of time for the electronics to work. In that there is an interval between the gun shot and the electronics shutting down the noise level. Some muffs are faster than others.

hedzball

minktrapper wrote: »

Are they any better at hearing protection rather than just comfort. Extra comfort is great but hearing protection is what I am more interested in. I saw somewhere that it takes a certain amount of time for the electronics to work. In that there is an interval between the gun shot and the electronics shutting down the noise level. Some muffs are faster than others.

They both mute before the bang. All sound be it louder or quieter travel at the one speed in the same conditions.

Neither leave you wanting.

tac foley

hedzball wrote: »

They both mute before the bang. All sound be it louder or quieter travel at the one speed in the same conditions.

That's an interesting situation, physically speaking. You are saying that the muting preempts the sound....

What if the shooter decided not to shoot then?

It's a bit like Schroedinger's Cat, right?

Schroedinger's Ear Muffs?

tac

Nekarsulm

Yes but electricity travels at the speed of light, 300 million metres per second .
Sound travels at 340 metres per second, almost a million times slower.

Lots of time for the electronics to kick in before the sound wave travels the distance through the muffs to your ear.

The pigeon man

Most electronic ear muffs offer less protection than standard ear muffs. That's because the electronics take up space where there would normally be foam padding.

I have the peltor sport tac and my friend has the Howard leight impact sport. Both offer good protection from the noise of a shotgun discharge with standard loads in open space, but in a confined space such as a covered shooting stand I wear both ear plugs and the ear muffs because it is too loud with the extra protection.

tac foley

Although it's way to late for me now, I still wear a set of Leight and roll-up squishies when shooting. We don't have dividers in the covered parts of our outdoor ranges, just the indoor ranges on which I no longer shoot.

tac

minktrapper

I was speaking to a man once that was almost completely deaf from shooting and his hearing specialist said always wear a cap when shooting as a lot of sound goes through your skull . As in your bones and skin as well as your ears.

Anyone any idea as to how the electronics work in electronic muffs.

Chiparus

The electronic ear defenders work as normal ear defenders when turned off , when turned on that transmit normal sounds up to a limit. They even augmentate normal sounds so can hear normal conversations some distance away.

minktrapper

Is it ok to use rechargable batteries in the Howard Leight Impact sport ear defenders. I can't see anything in the instructions.