Interested for hunting in the Netherlands is still high. There are about 30,000 registered hunters in the Netherlands. For a successful hunt a well functioning hearing is important in order to determine the type of sound and also the direction of it. Awareness of the importance of preserving the hearing has increased and today it is a matter of course to protect your self both during training and hunting.

”The ultimate goal must be a time where no hunters are damaged by the hunting noise. This definitely demands that hearing protections always are used at all types of shooting, that means both at training as well as at hunting”. Dan Bagger-Sjöbäck, MD, Department of Ear, Nose and Throat, Karolinska Univiersity Hospital. How loud does it bang when you shoot – a study of hunting noise. Poster. Medical assembly 2003