Once we did get an appointment it took less than an hour to get in, have a hearing test and get molds made. We delayed getting these for almost 5 months during Covid-19 as we could not get in to see an audiologist.

+/- 25 dB Passive Noise Reduction Rating.

Batteries last for about 300 hours and the units give you a low battery warning. The ESP system comes with a pair of the ESP APEX as well as a user guide, batteries, a cleaning tool, a rigid case and a one year repair warranty and your original impressions. During turkey season we could still hear far off gobblers in sustained 10 to 15 mile an hour winds. We like having the ability to hear those around us and hear game come in. This is critical here in midwest windy states like Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota where we do a lot of our hunting. Why we chose the ESP APEX?Īs we stated above, the first and primary reason we choose the APEX from Electronic Shooters Protection (ESP) is that they produce one of the best premium digital hearing protection devices on the market and the only one with serious dynamic wind noise suppression.

It was outstanding to be able to converse with our friends at range day without having to constantly remove our hearing protection from our ears whether in the duck blind, on the range or in the field. We also tested them at range day for POMA and this last week sighting in the new Henry 45/70. We got to test these out during spring turkey season in some pretty heavy winds in both eastern and western Nebraska. Today’s hearing protection can often provide an amplification of sounds to help you hear more sounds whether that is the squirrels sneaking under your deer stand, the ducks in flight, the pheasant cackle or the gobblers drumming behind you. At these numbers, you can do permanent damage to your ears and reduce your ability to hear over time. Shotguns, rifles and pistols can produce sound levels between 120db and 160db depending on the load, barrel and muzzle breaks or porting for gases. It didn’t help that I was always standing right beside him working to get the best angle of footage for the camera and his muzzle break was probably kicking out decibels above 150db.

Every time he shot his rifle, I would get a ringing sound in my ears. He brought along a 300 Win Mag with a muzzle break, and I was filming his hunts. I was one of those hunters who never used hearing protection in the field until I took a trip abroad to video tape a hunt for a friend. I chose these specifically because of the dynamic wind noise suppression for our big game and upland hunting in the Midwest.

After meeting with the team at ESP, I decided to try out a pair of the Electronic Shooters Protection APEX in ear sound protection. They just could not produce a real life sound without increasing the sound of wind in my ears and blocking out everything around. I tried several different forms of ear protection and a great number of them drove me absolutely crazy in the high winds of Nebraska. Most individual hunters want to hear naturally the sounds around them when they are hunting. Hunters have often ignored the great advice by doctors, friends and family to use hearing protection to protect their hearing. Eyes and ears are always the rule at most shooting ranges but not necessarily in the field.

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