PROTECT YOUR HEARING NOW Most hunters and shooters associate hearing loss with repetitive shooting over the years, loud music or driving heavy or farm equipment, and, for many of the older generation, during a time when hearing protection was an afterthought. “It doesn’t have to be repetitive, especially if you already hearing loss,” Deborah Price with Hearing Professional Center said. “I went to Africa last year, took one shot without my earplugs in and blew out half the hearing in my left year. I was fatigued because I had just flown over there and forgot. And the shot was from a .270, not the loudest of guns.” Few audiologists understand the hearing issues that develop with hunters and shooters. Price is the exception. “I’m pretty much the guru of audiologists in the hunting industry nationwide,” she said. “A few others dabble in it, but I have the most significant presence. It has to do with the fact that I am a hunter.” Price, an audiologist since 1978, is a Life Member of Dallas Safari Club and has been an exhibitor at the DSC convention each year since 1986. She has a piece of advice for those of us with hearing loss from shooting and hunting. “If you have hearing loss, seek help,” she said. “People don’t see them anymore. And it’s the mannerisms and behavior of the person with hearing loss that makes them look old, not the hearing aid.” Price offered a final warning. “If you go long enough without getting stimulation, it will affect you cognitively,” she said. In layman’s terms, if you aren’t hearing things, it will affect your brain and you’ll start losing mental aptitude. “The longer you go without hearing aids when you need them, you’ll start losing stuff mentally and you don’t get that back,” Price said. The Hearing Professional Center booth will be in the same area as always, and, of course, there will be hearing testing at the booth.
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