DO YOU WESR SHOOTING GLASSES????

[jdixon]

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I am another who always wears the eye protection. I submit to you that the BP firearms throw substantially more eye damaging particulates into the air than do a modern firearm. Agreed?!?! As a police officer for more than 25 years now, every time we fire on our range (4 times a year for qualification), the first thing the range officer says over the P.A. when ready to fire on the line is "eyes and ears in place?" This is when everyone is shooting a Glock! Everytime I fire a weapon, hunting, target, long gun, pistol or shotgun, whatever, glasses of some kind are over my eyes. It only takes once my man. The potential to damage yourself physically to the point you can no longer enjoy the sport of shooting or hunting is not one I am willing to take - wear the glasses - ALWAYS!!!!

 

[OTHERN]

I always wear eye protection and have not shot at some primitive events when eye protection was not allowed or had so many restrictions that effectively no protection was allowed.

I find that precussion guns cause more problems than flinters, but BOTH can create problems.

Othern

 

[peter]

While still in grammer school I saw what happens to eyes when foreign objects slam into them, also saw my older brother go thru the agony of welding flash burn. Now, 30 years later, I feel naked without eye protection, and not only at the range, but when drilling, grinding, blowing something off with compressed air, and sometimes using spray cans, ( brake and carb cleaners burn like a bi...). Oh yeah, think your tough?, try putting one drop of gas not in your eye but next to it, pain is so great that sympathetic reaction shuts down both eyes. Heck , I even have dark outdoor wrap around glasses for both shooting and driving. The young guys call them old man glaucoma glasses, but I like em, like me they ain't pretty but they work just fine.

 

[vradin]

Always. It's required when I'm teaching at camp, and everyone wears eye protection on my range. We use ANSI Z-81 approved glasses for the Scouts and staff.

Same with hearing protection, except sometimes I'll take them off when we're shooting only .22's, but always for the ML's.

Another safety device for lefties shotting a RH rifle is an archery armguard. It fits on the right arm and protects against the powder burn and tattoo from the cap.

Until eye and hearing transplants become 1)possible and 2) dirt cheap it's worth the cost to wear the safety gear.

vic

 

[oomcurt]

To be totally honest..nope. I've worked around all kinds of machinery in my life, was a carpenter/woodworker and have hunted now for over 50 some years. Never wore any type of safety glasses unless the situation was really hairy. Same with hearing protection...except if I was at a range and shooting modern high power rifles like a 300 Win Mag. With black powder one just does not get the concussion or muzzle blast that modern guns produce. Now, I will grant you things can happen..but as far as was mentioned with cartridge guns..getting hit with shell fragments..something is radically wrong with that gun imho. Incidentally, it was mentioned on a diffent thread some time ago..about the safety on guns, modern guns...never ever did I have a safety fail me. I dunno what some folks are shooting as far as that goes..but I never had a problem.

 

[AZ-Robert]

As a sissy, I'd like to keep my eyesight. :redface:

I'm such a sissy, I wear safety glasses to hammer in nails! Never used to wear them at all, but a year or so ago a glancing blow jumped a nail back at me that bounced off my forehead. Proved me to be hard-headed, maybe, but that was enough of a lesson for me. Got a real nice set of glasses at a low price at the local hardware store - wraparound, nearly transparent looking from the inside out, but bit reflective when looking from the outside in. Shatterproof, polarized, and UV blocking, and pretty close to stylish in appearance (no accounting for taste ). Now I wear them when doing just about anything involving tools, machinery, or guns - so light weight and clear I barely notice they are there.

 

[nvbirdman]

After you have had an Ophthalmologist pick pieces of lead, gliding metal, and unburned powder off your eyeball you WILL wear eye protection.

 

[davy]

After you have had an Ophthalmologist pick pieces of lead, gliding metal, and unburned powder off your eyeball you WILL wear eye protection.

I concur.. many years ago I got grinder debris in my eye .. wow! talk about pain .. not to mention the anxiety of thinkin you are blinded! It made a believer outta me, danged quick, fast, and ina hurry!

I now wear em for everything ... course age don help nuthing either! :curse:

Davy

 

[Slamfire]

Well you can think that if you want, but I think General Sterling Price or Hop Sing got Rooster's eye, while he was in a drunken stupor. :crackup:

 

[LRB]

You can get Williamsburg sunglasses with a UV rating of 400 from Williamsburg's website or from Avalon Forge. The lenses are 1 9/16". Not as much coverage as good shooting glasses, but much better than nothing, and very PC if the nose pads are removed. They are only $9.95 + shipping. I was able to fit an old set of prescription lenses to mine with a Dremel tool, using the sun lenses as a pattern.

 

[3 stinky dogs]

I wear the glasses when ever I shoot anything from a slingshot to my modern guns.The range I go to han a pair of glasses that have a piece of copper embeded in them from shooting somthing sitting next to w wall of pictures that show accident as a result of bad gun handling habets.

 

[shmrck1]

Absolutely!!!!! I use the yellow shooting glasses and
though not prescription i see a much better target when
i use them. When hunting i don't where them on my eyes,
but they are on my forehead and i drop them down when i am
ready to shoot. I have to replace my shooting glasses about
every 1 1/2 to 2 years because of nicks from percussion
caps and flint.
As far as hearing protection, always at the range but
never while hunting...I have a hard enough time hearing
what's going on while deer hunting without putting
something in my ears. Before someone suggest a Walker's
Game Ear, i don't think i can qualify the price.
I usually get a deer every year, although not always
a buck, but i like eating the does over the bucks anyway.
Now a days i will not shoot a buck under 8pts of which
i have a few...I know i'm getting off topic :sorry:
snake-eyes :m2c:

 

[bradmartin]

Growing up I was more worried about what my Dad would do to me if he found me shooting without my eyes and ears on then any harm that would come from my firearm. :nono: It just makes since.

 

[Trina]

( please excuse my typing....I am wounded)

:haha: :haha: :haha: whats your excuse the rest of the time :winking: :kid:



Always eyes and ears....besides now If dont wear glasses I cant see darn I get aggravated with these old eyes

 

[2172]

I need them for vision correction anyhow, but had the experience last year of a piece of a cap, a big piece, coming through the nose bridge and hitting the corner of my eyelid..stung, didn't do any damage...I must hold my head at a peculiar angle or something..Hank

 

[Tahquamenon]

I agree completely!

I always protect my eyes and have extra sets of both safety glasses and hearing protection for the range for those that are with and around the shooting activity. I don't wear hearing protection for hunting though.

You are right, it only takes once and eye replacement surgery is not quite there yet.

eace:

 

[kodiakemt414]

If I don't then I can't see the end of the barrel. When I have contacts in, I do where them. Like others have said, it only takes once. I don't know about the rest of ya, not being able to shoot is one thing but not beings able to see the wife and kids anymore would just ruin me. Shoot safe is the name of the game.

 

[Choctaw]

Always.

 

[B.Habermehl]

Eye glasses and ear plugs allways when shooting or doing range officer duty. BJH

 

[robinghewitt]

To be totally honest..nope

Looks like we're in a minority here :thumbsup: