bigsqueeze: If a person can wear hearing protection with a caliber of loud report and still retain 100% hearing after years of shooting, that is extremely good news to me.

So, what hearing protection do you use. I know there is another thread on this subject, but maybe I missed the comments on your type of results. What I have been using is ear plugs while hunting and ear plugs with ear protectors/muffs(don't know the right word).