I gave myself tinnitus dry firing an airgun indoorsFucking hate this piece of shit
Back in the eighties air protection outdoors was for faggots, it was available but you had to go out of your way to use it. SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEgo my ears every moment.
>>64749640I miss the days when being called gay and retarded was derogatory. Now it's a merit to fill your social media bio with pronouns and diagnoses.
>>64749640I didn't even know airguns could fucking explode as loud as an actual gunpermanent ringing because I DIDN'T load something how fucking absolutely retarded is thatholy shit I am mad
>>64749762moving air can be loud af
>>64749769It literally exploded when it dry fired, there a fireball and smoke and it was so loud I went deaf for multiple seconds and I only heard it as a faint pop as I lost my hearingand this only happened because I waited to lower the loading port so I didn't somehow accidently shoot a hole in my roofWhy do I have to suffer for the rest of my conscious life because of something so stupid
>>64749762>how fucking absolutely retarded is thatIt makes perfect fucking sense, anon. You're just stupid.>Gun is designed to operate with the pneumatic resistance provided by a pellet>Let's try to fire it without that resistance and see what happens? What could go wrong?Brilliant. Move. Anon.>It exploded!Congrats, you just learned about dieseling. If you rapidly compress oil it ignites. Epiphany time.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWHAT?
>>64749804OP is less dumb then the anon who had his buddy shoot him in the head with an air rifle use a salad bowl as a helmet though.
>>64749804do you think I dry fired or on purpose you retardand I know about dieseling, it did more than that
Dry firing can damage certain kinds of airguns (though others will be fine, like PCP or CO2 ones don't really operate differently with a pellet vs without so long as there is enough pressure to keep the hammer from hurting anything). But it shouldn't cause the kind of explosion described here>>64749788unless something was damaged, overfilled or you used the wrong lubricants or some shit.Real air rifles though (vs little bb gun sorts of things) should still be taken seriously just like a real gun, rtfm etc.
>>64749847>don't really operate differently with a pellet vs withoutthere is a pretty noticeable sound differenceidiot either shot it with all the packing grease/oil on it or oiled it himself and it dieseled.
>>64749847I literally didn't do anything, I've never lubed the compression chamber, never taken it apart, shot it only a few hundred timesThat's the first time I ever dry fired it (read: ON ACCIDENT) and it fucking blew up like a .22 and I was shooting out a window in a small room into the yardnow my ear will never stop ringing it's been months
>>64749856.22s aren't that loud, I've shot .22s indoors before without any problems. Are you sure you aren't just being emotional?
>>64749881>.22s aren't that loudnta but yes they are you dumb fucker, where "that loud" means ">140dB". They aren't as loud as big center fire for sure, but way above what you should be exposing yourself too without earpro or a suppressor.>I've shot .22s indoors before without any problemsWhen was the last time you had your hearing checked anon? Serious question. Tinnitus is on some level chance and biology based, you can luck out on avoiding it or not, but you can suffer a lot of hearing damage without getting the EEEEEEE. High frequencies usually go first, you won't necessarily notice. It raises your chances of long term going deaf a lot though when you're in your 60s/70s/80s.
>>64749897>It raises your chances of long term going deaf a lot though when you're in your 60s/70s/80s.That sounds like a problem for future me. In other words, not my problem.
>>64749903>That sounds like a problem for future me. In other words, not my problem.are you perchance black? ever had an iq test? just curious.
>>64749609OP... I don't think an airgun is loud enough to cause tinnitus. Even indoors. It has to be from some other source you're not telling us about.
>>64749788The ringing will most likely go away anon, relax. Chronic tinnitus usually happens for repeated hearing damage over time. You could get it permanently from one incident but its rare. It'll stop eventually (most likely). Don't panic just yet.
>>64749609Dry firing an airgun can damage it. Check your manual. Mine says never do it. Shoot some paper towels through the bore to give resistance.
>>64749881yes you retard, I'm not just hallucinating the fucking ringing I already had tinnitus before this incident but I could ignore it if I didn't think about it, now it's there all the time no matter whatall because I DIDN'T load something on accidentmake it make sense
>>64749856I was gonna type out a response about how OP is both a retard and a pussy, but holy shit>It's been monthsYou're cooked. Learn to live with your disability. Idek how you managed to fuck yourself like that with an airgun of all things, truly impressive.
>>64749822lmao that was quite a thread>https://desuarchive.org/k/thread/57726039/#
>>64749640I never used ear pro up to 7.62x39mm but the tinnitus is just low key *there*, it's never been present enough to be annoying. It could have as easily been the live music, and my own amp was a 450 watt eighties beast; back then you didn't use the PA for anything but vocals really, you did it all with amps. Lately you don't even see big amp stacks with much more than a 100 watt head.Everything in music weighs SO MUCH LESS. I/O box and a $200 NUC pc. I can connect to anything from old telephone wire to optical cable. Shit's cheap too.
>>64749609>doesn't wear earpro>gets tinnitus>wtf how could this happen to me
>>64750010>earpro>for a fucking air rifleair rifles aren't supposed to goddamn explode
>>64750013Sure, and neither are normal guns but defects still happen sometimes. And you don't talk details but I've seen PCP air rifles factory rated for over 4000 psi. That's serious no-fucking-joke levels of pressure anon, and if it's something like a carbon fiber tank then they're incredibly strong for their weight but they are stiff and don't have gentle failure modes either, if it starts to go it'll be a catastrophic failure. And a lot of those guns are chinese at the core and the pressure ratings are at least some part bullshit, they are effectively unregulated and rated to juice specs and you're a fool if you run it. Even with quality stuff a lot of people put in a step down in-line regulator and then run a lighter hammer that'll be fine at 2000-2500 psi if they're not hunting, get a lot more with tuning for different loads.Point being "air rifles" aren't a child bb anon.
>>64750041Mine is just a spring gun How am I supposed to know it ignites the oil in the chamber and blows the fuck up if you dry fire it before it already raped my hearing for life the one time I ever forgot to load it
>>64750013>I took on the risk of firing an air rifle indoors, fucked up, accidentally detonated the oil in it, and now have permanent hearing damage because earpro is gay or somethingbtw not all air rifles are hearing safe, especially not indoors
>>64750043>How am I supposed to know it ignites the oil in the chamber and blows the fuck upiunno, do some research before dicking around with one? It's like complaining about getting hearing damage from firing a suppressed .22 because you were shooting supersonic ammo
>>64750050literally the only thing I did wrong is forgetting to put the loading port down before I took aimI have a scope on it so I can see it if I'm looking through and didn't realize I forgot until I already pulled the triggerI've shot out my window plenty of times before, it's not loud, it's a fucking airgun>>64750064and how am I supposed to do "research" for a freak accident that doesn't happen under normal use and I had no idea could even happen at all? I knew not to dry fire it because it could damage the gun, nothing I ever read or watched said that it would literally fucking explode
>>64749911Never had a problem with my IQ
>>64750069>"research" for a freak accident that doesn't happen under normal usedieseling air rifles is quite common, and unintentionally doing so is a well known hazard. You got complacent because you thought>it's just an airgunwhen many air rifles go over 120 dB, hell there's plenty of springers that can go over 130 dB.
>>64750104I've shot the thing hundreds of times, it's not fucking loud at alldieseling is not what happened, it literally EXPLODED there was a fireballthis was never mentioned anywhere or in anything I looked at
>>64750119>dieseling is not what happened, it literally EXPLODEDthat is quite literally what dieseling is you tard, the oil that got misted detonated because of the pressure>it's not fucking loud at allyeah noises below 140 dB won't cause pain, but they still can cause hearing damage
>>64749609At least you got it from a gun. I got tinnitus from going to a smokey pool hall, catching a mild cold, and getting a middle ear infection.Sometimes when I get sick with a sinus infection though, the ringing stops and it's the weirdest feeling.
>>64750128It could have easily been above 140, and>yeah noises below 140 dB won't cause pain, but they still can cause hearing damageyeah 140 isn't some conservative estimate it's an industry cheapskate-as-fuck number of "yeah this is the absolute least number our lawyers can arguably claim on some humans won't cause instantaneous permanent damage and thus we can't get sued for" if you actually give a shit about your ears you should be more conservative then that. NIOSH (who never had any regulatory power unlike OSHA and thus weren't lobbied as hard) image related.
>>64750128no it fucking isn't, I've looked this up now so I know you're full of shitdetonation is NOT dieseling and there isn't a fireball or immensely loud explosion with dieseling
>>64750128you are out of your mind if you think a .177 single shot spring airgun is loud enough to cause hearing damage under any normal circumstancesmy nerf gun with fly wheels is louder than the damn thing
