When you don't have an earplug …
Updated: January 9th, 2013
The first Beatles concerts in the United States was so loud policemen had to plug their ears with bullets. To see the full size photo click through to CNN and look at photo #5.
[ Many thanks to Mik for emailing me the photo. ]
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I had a friend in the USMC at Camp Pendleton. He was a WO5 and wore two hearing aids. Never having seen a Marine with hearing aids, I asked him about it. "I used to be a Cannon Cocker" was his reply!!!
I've seen chewing gum chewed up and stuck inside ears for ear plugs.
Hearing protection, Use them, it truly sucks to be hearing impaired due to nerve damage.
The funniest ear plugs was the guy who used C- ration toilet paper for ear protection, Yup with large tufts of white paper sticking out.
For some rifles there just is not any way to improvise ear plugs though, The M-40 RR is one example.