DO YOU WESR SHOOTING GLASSES????

[16gauge]

I used to work in the Emergency room in Detroit. One day they brought in a 14 year old kid who was shooting his BB gun in the basement of his home without eye protection. He hit something hard and the BB traveled back down the line of sight and pierced his eyeball. I saw the X-ray...one little BB floating in the center of the eyeball. They removed his eye.....think what an inexpensive pair of shooting glasses could have saved.

 

[mglampson]

I bought a pair of shooting glasses with wire metal frames that hooked behind the ears and had round lenses. They looked alot more PC if that makes a difference. I sat on the dang things the first day I got em :curse:. Really should get another pair. Don't even remember where I got em though, Jas Townsend maybe?

Britches

 

[Stumpkiller]

I'm "lucky" enough to not be able to see six inches without eyeglasses, so I always wear them when shooting. Luckily, I'm still correctable better than 20/20 so it is a blessing and a curse.

I wear the "Sonic" piston style ear protection when target shooting, also.

 

[musketman]

DO YOU WESR SHOOTING GLASSES????

No, but I have saftey contact lenses... :haha:

 

[JOHN L. HINNANT]

Greetiings WV SCROUNGER,

ALWAYS!

Some 52 years ago. I started small bore competition shooting on a 4H rifle team. Shooting glasses were required, and you could lose your spot on the team for not wearing them.

In fact, show up at practice or a match without your glasses, and you would not be allowed to shoot. No exceptions. Old habits die hard, and since that time, I have never shot without them, on the range or in the field. The habit is so ingrained, I am very uncomfortable if I start to shoot without them on.

So yes to that question, I am never without my shooting glasses when shooting, although today, they require a prescription ground into the lense.

Best regards and good shooting,

John L, Hinnant

 

:bull: Safety contact, boy now I have heard of everything. As someone that deals with OSHA, Oh well safety contacts are a lot less cost as to not SEEING.

 

[musketman]

:bull: Safety contact, boy now I have heard of everything. As someone that deals with OSHA, Oh well safety contacts are a lot less cost as to not SEEING.

It was a joke...

 

[walruskid1]

shooting hi power had a competitors 30-06 case get between my glasses and my eyelid. made a nice sizzle and blister. needless to say the rest of the match was a wash. now i wear side shields too. they also block out distractions.

 

[Old40Rod]

They only time I have gotten bad "PC" vibes at a BP shoot was wearing the amber lenses in my shooting glasses. I switched to the clear lenses and all was reasonably well.

 

For middle aged and later eyes I accidentally discovered that a pair of prescription glasses that I had made for computer use worked fine. The difference between reading glasses and those for ordinary wear is that with reading glasses the center of focus of each lense is moved a slightly towards the center of the face with out any other change in prescription. This is because as your eyes focus on close objects, the pupils move closer together. This allows me to see the front sight clearly. When I have front and rear sight aligned properly I can shift focus to the target. The black of the target will be slightly out of focus but not enough to matter. Using glasses, I can shoot 1 - 1 1/2 inch groups at 50 yards using a rest. Shooting offhand at 50 yards I can't do as well but that has nothing to do with vision.

 

[WV_Hillbilly]

I used to work in the Emergency room in Detroit. One day they brought in a 14 year old kid who was shooting his BB gun in the basement of his home without eye protection. He hit something hard and the BB traveled back down the line of sight and pierced his eyeball. I saw the X-ray...one little BB floating in the center of the eyeball. They removed his eye.....think what an inexpensive pair of shooting glasses could have saved.

Man, just thinking about that is making me queezy. Now that poor kid is going to wear an eyepatch the rest of his life, or do they still put in artificial eyes once the eye stops growing? Either way, it proves the old adage that the Moms used to say, "Watch out! You could put an eye out with that thing!(BB gun)". Very tragic happening...:boohoo:

Shoot Safely--even if it is JUST a BB gun!,
WV_Hillbilly

 

[Walker357]

Tried shootin without my glasses once. Couldn't find the rifle. My wife says I haven't worn enough hearing protection, or at least that what I think she said. Nobody takes better care of my body than I do! ::

 

[wwfeatherston]

Can't see the dang front sight without them!

Seriously, though, I have been hit in the face by bits of fouling, powder or whatever firing wheelguns enough to realise that, while they did no damage to my skin, they would not be benefical to what is left of my sight!