He must be talking about a "flush and flurry" type clays game, to have been wearing all that hearing protection........... one of those games where you cannot take the time to look down bore before reloading the barrel. When hunting it is no problem to quickly "see daylight" out the muzzle before dropping a fresh load in the chamber.

Hearing protection is counter-productive when hunting.

SRH

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