Dave

I'm just asking, are 16-inch builds still cool?

And your answer is no.

He said no.

In defense situations.

And there's where, again, I think it's nothing is that cut and dry.

All right, so here we go.

Typical 5.56 16-inch rifle blast hovers around 170 decibels.

Okay.

Permanent hearing damage begins around 140 decibels.

Yeah.

So you're going to have immediate temporary threshold shift

greatly muffled hearing for days guaranteed how many times have you shot several rounds off even just outside without ear pro on on a 556 16 inch build once or twice and i was like well where's my ears but now we're talking about inside i understand i'm just still saying though yes it's going to cause damage to your ears but you're not going deaf in that instant you're not

Yeah, but I'm reading all the shit that's going to happen.

Well, that's fine.

It can happen.

Doesn't mean it's going to happen either.

It's not good.

I'm not saying it's a good thing.

I'm always going to say it roars in your ears.

I'm not saying it's going to skew you over risk hearing damage.