&@$/@!! Yikes!!

[Jim567]

I have taken to using an electronic ear protection set.
Yesterday at the range I was deep in concentration about ready to touch off the second round in a three round string .
All a sudden an urgent woman’s voice yells in my ear “ warning”!!
Battery will be discharged in 54321 !!
Scared the living you know what out of me !!!
I had a good laugh after my heart stopped racing

 

[Rachen]

"......Brace yourselves...Five seconds".

I was strapped all over...Belly, forehead, shins...But I shook worse than ever.

It's better after you unload...Until you do, you sit there in total darkness, wrapped like a mummy against the acceleration...Barely able to breathe.

Knowing that there is just nitrogen around you in the capsule, even if you could get your helmet open, which you can't, and knowing that the capsule is surrounded by the firing tube anyhow...And if the ship gets hit before they fire you...You haven't got a prayer...

 

[Al Norris]

Quite frankly, I have no clue what this thread might be about.

Jim doesn't tell us what make and/or model of ear protection does this or even why it's now a conversation piece.

Rachen simply drops some quotes from Starship Troopers.

Closed.