I stopped at the last Dixie Gun show in Raleigh, and had a pair of custom molded ear plugs made by Lenny Kahn of Ear Inc. The process for getting them made was pretty simple. Lenny had me sit on a stool, and he places a small piece of cotton in the ear to keep the earplug away from the ear drum, and then he just squirts in the ear plug material, and lets it set up for a few minutes. I was expecting a nasty liquid in my ear, but I was pleasantly surprised when I found out it isn’t really a liquid when it goes in. After about 10 minutes or so, Lenny removed the plugs, and told me to come back in 30 minutes, to let the plugs cure for a bit.

The next night, I used the plugs at the Wake County Action Pistol match, and [...]