Shooting glasses

George P said:

If I am shooting I am wearing eyes and ears; that includes hunting as well.

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+1 for me & another +1 for my wife.

I'm another eyes and ears guy and have been for a long time. The eyes part is going to get interesting as I'm getting new eyes starting shortly after Thanksgiving and finishing up just before Christmas. It will be a whole new deal glasses wise with out cataracts. Eye guy says I will have to continue wearing glasses for polarization as I have double vision from an accident and need it to eliminate the DV thing.

doubleh said:

I'm another eyes and ears guy and have been for a long time. The eyes part is going to get interesting as I'm getting new eyes starting shortly after Thanksgiving and finishing up just before Christmas. It will be a whole new deal glasses wise with out cataracts. Eye guy says I will have to continue wearing glasses for polarization as I have double vision from an accident and need it to eliminate the DV thing.

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Best wishes for complications free surgeries! I have cataract surgery for my left eye scheduled 1 week from today. We'll see about my right eye in 2021.

doubleh said:

I'm another eyes and ears guy and have been for a long time. The eyes part is going to get interesting as I'm getting new eyes starting shortly after Thanksgiving and finishing up just before Christmas. It will be a whole new deal glasses wise with out cataracts. Eye guy says I will have to continue wearing glasses for polarization as I have double vision from an accident and need it to eliminate the DV thing.

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Sounds like the perfect excuse to get another gun. That way you can live up to the quote from Tombstone...."I have two guns, one for each of you".

I don't like them, and I never used to wear them, but now I can't see the sights properly without correction so I have to wear them.

Ive been using the SSP "top focal" glasses for a while now. Great safety/shooting/sunglasses, with the magnification "bi focal" up in the top part of the lense, right where youre looking, when you look for the sights.

The big advantage to them is, Ive always got them on and always have nice, clear sights, no matter where I anm, if I should need them.

It takes years of shooting to go deaf but you can go blind right away with a shooting mishap.

Safety glasses have saved my eye sight more than once both on and off the range.

AK103K said:

Sounds like the perfect excuse to get another gun. That way you can live up to the quote from Tombstone...."I have two guns, one for each of you".

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I had the same thought so bought one Saturday afternoon. See my "New project started" thread.

Mr. Zorg said:

Best wishes for complications free surgeries! I have cataract surgery for my left eye scheduled 1 week from today. We'll see about my right eye in 2021.

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I'm taking one medication I have to be off of for three weeks before surgery or my first one would have been done next week. The surgeon informed me I have excellent eyes except for the cataracts and thinks three weeks between surgeries is enough. I hope he know what he is doing. He did come with really good recommendations.

Always, without fail. I wear them all day at work and when wrenching in the garage too though, so it's just natural. I basically have clear and tinted safety glasses with me at all times.

We only come with two eyes, and I do not consider the second one a spare.

I shoot muzzle-loaders, so eye protection would be a must even if I did not need glasses to see the sights sharply.

I've already got tinnitus and I'm probably more than half-blind without my glasses, I have to protect what I have.
Depending one what I'm shooting, I'd either wear my normal glasses (already the right material) or slip safety glasses over them.
Finally went out and have prescription safety goggles on order. An excellent investment, and transition lenses are an easy way to make life better anyway.

I've had two incidents on the range where high-speed bits of brass were plated onto my glasses.
I've also seen other folks with bounced lead chunks that tried to attack their eyes but their glasses blocked them.

Stuff like that is a cautionary tale to wear eye pro.

I wear glasses anyway and make sure I get polycarbonate lenses, so I do by default. That being said, I've wanted to get actual safety glasses for awhile with better coverage than my regular glasses.

I like wearing safety glasses that have cheaters. I like my eyesight and like to be able to read or examine close up.

The topic of shooting and wearing (or not wearing) eye protection brings back an unpleasant memory for me.
If I hadn't been wearing glasses I would have lost an eye when I shooting a old .22 rifle.
Metal fatigue blew out the chamber and fragments of metal blasted right back in my face.
Metal fragments stung my face just below my eye but my eye glasses must have saved my eye because I was wearing them at time.
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It's gettin' to be about this time of year again



I'll own up I never wore shooting glasses in the 1970's, 1980's, and into the middle 1990's until after needing prescription eyewear to begin with, and my employers footed the bill for 1 pair prescription safety glasses per year with change in prescription or every 2 years regrdless. But BB guns and metallic cartridges were only a piece of the picture of risks I regularly faced. For example I never wore a helmet riding a bicycle, I didn't always wear safety glasses on the job after sunset, and didn't wear any hearing protection at live concerts I paid my hard earned money to attend including an especially memorable performance by Judas Priest with seats 3 rows from the stage in front of the stage left bank of speakers, and a lot of sundry stuff during those years. YMMV of course.

WEAR YOUR SAFETY GLASSES!!!

And hearing protection!!!