Acceptable hunting accuracy, the topic of this post. I feel like I shoot much better when I wear electronic hearing protection. Were your ears naked? There are certain guns where I don't worry if I have it or not, but I shoot better when I know my ears aren't gonna get nuked. I can just about tolerate wearing it all the time for everything except hunting pheasants when it is windy or deer driving in the brush. Both cases, wind noise or brush noise is too disorienting through the ear pieces, and they always get snagged when deer driving. Other times I will wear the muffs just above my ears for natural stereo hearing, then if a deer comes into view I can get them into place or I will just have earplugs around my neck.