[taf2]

I spent a weekend with my east texas relatives shooting pumpkins with big guns and my hearing has not recovered since that was like 15 years ago...

[eplanit]

For me it was using a nail gun once after forgetting to put on the ear protectors. That was 10 years ago. The ringing in the ear closest to the nail gun is constant and sometimes annoying, but mostly which I can subconsciously filter out.