Eyeglasses a substitute for safety glasses, no.

There are few indoor ranges around here with a rule about having to wear safety glasses and they count eyeglasses as eye protection, with that said mine are too damn small to count for squat

1. I only buy polycarbonate lenses.
2. My range glasses (single vision since transitions are not good for many optics) are 3M safety glasses that do not need side shields.

Mike

Arizona_Mike said:

1. I only buy polycarbonate lenses.
2. My range glasses (single vision since transitions are not good for many optics) are 3M safety glasses that do not need side shields.

Mike

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Transitions® is the Brand name for photochromic lenses in materials other than glass. (That's still called PhotoGrey or PhotoBrown) You mean progressive lenses, or more colloquially, no-line bifocals.

Sorry, not meaning to be critical, but that's the 'clip/magazine' controversy in my profession, and I have to explain it to people all the time.

Also I wear progressive lenses, and shoot scoped rifles and pistols, and red dot topped rifles, with them, and never had a problem. If they are a probem for you, you are sighting wrong. Get your nose down on the stock where it belongs, not up in the air. (Or cheek down on your shoulder, for pistol.)

captainamerica, I think you meant Non-safety Rx lenses will break much easier than safety Rx lenses, right? Yes and no. It all depends on the prescription, and material. A high minus or high plus polycarbonate non-safety lens will be much more shatter-resistant than a light Rx plastic safety lens, for instance.

Non-safety Rx lenses will break much easier than Rx type and they can fragment/fracture into tiny pieces. Safety glasses are appropriate for flying objects including gun powder, copper/metal fouling bits, etc.; but even then they can only hold up to so much power, speed, size before they break. They still should be less likely to dissolve into lots of tiny pieces.

I worked a few years in landscaping to be smart enough to know that things can fly at your eyes not only from the front.

Your eyes, your choice. I always wear proper eye protection.