Background: The high noise training environment in shooting sports poses a potential threat to athletes' hearing health, and raising the awareness of hearing protection among shooting athletes is of great importance for protecting their hearing. Objective: To understand the basic situation of gun noise exposure and hearing loss among shooting athletes, to explore their attitudes and awareness towards the impact of gun noise and to analyze and evaluate them, and to provide theoretical guidance for the prevention and protection of shooting athletes' auditory health. Methods: Between January and July 2023, by tracking the shooting team of Hubei Province, 42 qualified Hubei Province shooting team athletes were selected as the research objects, and questionnaires were filled in and pure tone audiometry tests were conducted. The BD-Ⅱ-116 type of auditory experiment instrument, which had been adjusted and calibrated, was used to conduct bilateral air conduction pure tone detection of the athletes in a noise <30dB room to judge the athletes' speech frequency hearing loss (>20dB) and high frequency hearing loss (>20dB). And the correlation between protective awareness and the athlete's auditory characteristics was studied. Results: (1) The size of the athlete's hearing protection awareness is related to the training year (χ2=5.839, p=0.016) and gun type (χ2=8.145, p=0.004), and the athletes with longer training years and caliber gun types have higher hearing protection awareness. The hearing protection awareness of shooting athletes with ear ringing is higher than that of athletes without ear ringing (χ2=7.0, p=0.008). (2) There is a good consistency between the exposure to gunshot noise and the cognition of noise among shooting athletes. The subjective judgment of gun noise by athletes is positively correlated with their awareness of auditory protection (R=0.403, p=0.008), and the cognition of gun noise and awareness of auditory protection are positively correlated (R=0.402, p=0.008). (3) Compared with other factors (such as the risk of noise-induced hearing loss), the reminder and supervision of coaches play a more critical role in athletes' persistence in using hearing protection devices. Conclusion: Although most athletes have certain cognition and awareness of gun noise in shooting, this protective awareness only stays at the cognitive level and has not been well implemented in practice. Coaches and relevant personnel should strengthen noise protection and hearing health education for shooting athletes, enhance their awareness of auditory protection, and supervise them to wear hearing protection measures during training to protect their hearing health.