SirRealism
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- Nov 17, 2008
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Long guns around here are "cruiser ready," which means magazine loaded/inserted, but chamber empty.
I will also suggest that if you choose to use an AR for home defense that you keep a set of electronic earmuffs with it. You may not have time to use them, but if you do, you will be glad you did. In addition to minimizing the permanent damage to your hearing if you have to shoot your AR indoors, you'll also be able to hear better with the earmuffs than you could without them. The downside is if you can't wear earmuffs when shooting a long gun (like me) because the seal is broken when you get a cheekweld.
There's another huge downside. Unless I'm mistaken, electronic earmuffs are mono, not stereo.
In order to locate the location a noise source, your brain uses a complex combination of the difference in time (in milliseconds) of arrival at your ear (for left/right) and the seemingly indistinguishable differences in sound created by the unique shape of your outer ear (front/back).
Unless I'm very mistaken, you'd be giving up all of that with electronic earmuffs. If something goes bump (or click), I want to be sure I know where it's coming from.