Ok. I'll be the contrarian here. I think you were smart to fire the pistol without ear protection just to see how it sounds. No, it didn't permanently affect your hearing and firing it several more times won't either.
No, I'm not saying do it a lot and yes, I wear ear protection but for many years while not shooting more than a few hundred rounds a year, I never owned ear protection. No body did back then. Most of us couldn't afford to shoot enough to cause a hearing loss. Can I hear?.......A knat scratch his *** at 100 yards!
Let's have some common sense here...Pleeeeeese! You all sound like the radical militants on other subjects that I have heard.
Wear um but don't freak over a few times without um. I think what you did was a good idea and I advocate it for everybody that shoots. For one thing, it will hopefully prevent you doing something worse which really might injury your ears like firing in a closed space........Like out of a car window or in a small room. Now you know, it's going to be really bad if you do. So you learned something.
PigPen
No, I'm not saying do it a lot and yes, I wear ear protection but for many years while not shooting more than a few hundred rounds a year, I never owned ear protection. No body did back then. Most of us couldn't afford to shoot enough to cause a hearing loss. Can I hear?.......A knat scratch his *** at 100 yards!
Let's have some common sense here...Pleeeeeese! You all sound like the radical militants on other subjects that I have heard.
Wear um but don't freak over a few times without um. I think what you did was a good idea and I advocate it for everybody that shoots. For one thing, it will hopefully prevent you doing something worse which really might injury your ears like firing in a closed space........Like out of a car window or in a small room. Now you know, it's going to be really bad if you do. So you learned something.
PigPen