well... now that was just dumb

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just thought i'd let ya know that you should remember to put your glasses on when shooting. having them is good. bringing them w/ you is gooder. putting them on while you are benching and sandbagging your freshly (over) lubricated glock would be goodest of all.

i have 'em. i brought them w/ me. i forgot to put them on - yep, left them right next to my bags, where i nearly had to touch them to bag the gun. i also put a couple drops of oil on the glock before i started my load-proofing (a pretty hot load). i was rewarded promptly and properly w/ oil in my eye. didn't feel good, but didn't blind me either. count it as a gentle reminder.

as you were.
 
+1 on the glad your eye is okay and that it counts as a reminder, not an injury.

Don't forget the safety glasses when cleaning your guns either. I got my reminder when some Gun Scrubber sprayed right back into my eye. It was very painfull and a bit scary. I always keep a pair of wrap-around safety glasses in my cleaning kit since then.

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Your not running 40 S&W proof loads in your Glock, I hope? You don't have much room to play with when it comes to that caliber and handgun combination. Please be careful.

Cheers
 
I've had an empty come back and ruin a pair of shooting glasses. Sometimes I think about what it would have done to my dominant eye if it hadn't put a deep crescent shaped gouge in the lens of my shooting glasses instead.

The glasses were toast since the gouge was directly over my eye. It would have been ugly if I had forgotten to put them on.

I wear them while cleaning too--back when I was wearing hard contacts, I actually had a small piece of something bounce off a contact. Very weird feeling, that.
 
rex- no, when i say i am 'proofing' a load, it means i have already tested it for accuracy and function, and i am coming back to it on different days under different conditions to see if all is as expected. i do this after i have gone thru load development, and have 2 or 3 loads that shot exceptionally accurate, so i pit them head-to-head on different days/conditions to see what my final load is.
 
dakotasin,

I got ya. Sorry about that. I am not a reloader and misunderstood the terminology/context of what you were doing.

Take care
 
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