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You are definityly wise to do so! My ears starting ringing back as a teen. We never used ear plugs, shot shotguns, worked around oilfields, then I went in the Army. They gave us some useless rubber plugs, but 8 inch Howitzers really "hammer you" with a shock wave. Then driving 318 Detroit turbo charged tracks with poor sound panels, oh yes, what joy! Out of the Army, back into the oilfields with loud, reverberating machinery..and when you "did" get time off...its back to shooting w/o aby protection! So, now have zero HiFy hearing. Lots of ringing. Take from an Ol Phart...use those hearing protectors!

I'm only looking at CFE because it gave good results in another 18" 7mm-08, although that was with the 120 NBT. If it won't work in this rifle, I'll likely look at Big Game also. Hopefully there will be time to load some ammo this week and find a time to shoot when it's not 90F+ outside. Anything accurate that's going 2,950fps or better will be good by me.