The good news in a high stress high adrenaline environment a phenomenon occurs called Auditory Exclusion. It won't prevent damage to your hearing if you are exposed to enough high noise levels but you will not be effected as much by the sound of a gunshot, especially if you are doing the shooting.
Your strength increases but you develop tunnel vision and tunnel hearing which means you won't hear all the yelling and screaming of others while you are focused on the immediate danger, Booger man or men in this case. Unfortunately this does not apply to your sight and is why I argue against shooting +P or magnum rounds out of snubby barrels if you expect the shooting to go down in low light conditions. I don't feel a large powerful round accompanied by a large ball of flame is going to turn out well if you need to fire a follow up shot and your night sight is gone.
Just my 2 cents but I am more of a 38 special out of a 4" barrel or a 20 gauge with 2 3/4" loads kind of guy in that situation. Lights on or daytime outside give me the biggest baddest gun in my collection but at night, uh, uh.
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