I have hunted my whole life. I made the mistake of shooting guns a few times when I was younger without ear protection. My ears were ringing so bad I couldn’t hear anything for the next hour or so. Whenever you see or hear about old world wars, you see them constantly shooting machine guns, artillery, and tanks going off. How on earth did the soldiers communicate to each with the combination of how loud war was and their ears being deafened?
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