Hearing protection recommendations?

The indoor range that our group shoots at over the past 5 years has pistol only and rifle and pistol lanes.

One of the guys brings his 50 cal Desert Eagle or his S&W 500 50 cal magnum almost every time, and our group gets to shoot it. It will get the attention of nearly everyone within 10 lanes because the sound is obviously the loudest of any gunfire at the time.

Of course the recoil and muzzle flip is typically way more than most people have experienced.

I don't find the sound level or the pressure level, concussion, to be uncomfortable at all. At 6 feet behind the shooter of 500 magnum, the concussion hitting my chest is a new experience. In fact, while watching others shoot, there is lots of joking and laughs about its "big bang". My Howard Leight Impact Sport earmuffs work fine.
 
When living in mountains of Va. a long time friend from high school also lived there and we had a very nice hunt club/ shooting ranges on his land in Floyd County. Old farm house was fine for week or week end of hunting or shooting. Always wore muffs but when he got one of the first S&W 500s and we shot it it reminded us of firing mortars. Concussion was huge even outside. IIRC I fired one cylinder at a B-27 at about 200 yards and got all on target. First and last time shooting it. Had leather gloves on and hand felt like " a Nun had used a wooden ruler" on hand, lol.
 
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