Does anyone NOT wear eye protection?

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better safe than sorry.

My local indoor range had a chemical flash fire when a round . Sent three people to the hospital with serious burns to the face.

Knew a guy who died because he was a construction worker, and didnt wear glasses while using a manual hammer on some 16-p nails. Hit the head the wrong way, it flipped up and bolted into his eye. he died of a cerebral hemmorage, or whatever.

it's kind of like wearing your seatbelt. If doing something is well-known to be linked to fatal or disfiguring accidents, then take the safety precautions.
 
For years I didn't wear eye protection. Now I always do. Nothing crazy happened, I just decided it was smart.
 
I wear eye protection at an indoor range, of course. Not when shooting outside, though. I'm aware that there are very good safety reasons to wear them, but I really don't like safety glasses. I won't go so far as to say they ruin my shooting experience, but it does make it a lot harder to get into it.

Also, I can't see for crap with my glasses always fogging up. I'd rather be able to see what's going on around me clearly. There's always the chance a gun could blow up in my face, it's true. I could also get cancer, or get hit by a bus.

Actually, I'm hoping that if I ever have a gun blow up in my face, it just leaves me with a cool scar. Or just takes my left eye... I can do without that one, I think. I could wear an eye patch, and work phrases like "Yargh", "Avast ye", and "Scurvy Dog" into conversation a lot more. On a similar note, if I ever lose a hand, I'm not getting one of those fancy prosthetics. Nope, I'm having a socket affixed to my nub, anchored in the bone. Then I'm going to pester my machinist friend into making a variety of cool accessories that I can screw into the socket, including a hook (I'm a sucker for the classics), a knife, a church key (I'll be popular at parties, for once), and maybe a cup holder.

I try to look on the bright side of things.
 
When I was younger and shooting at my cabin I never used to wear eye protection. When I started really getting into shooting and going to ranges that required it, I realized how smart it was to wear them. I now always wear eye protection no matter where I shoot. The only time I don't is when I'm hunting.
 
I wear glasses anyway, so except for the added cost for some 'shootin' glasses' it is no problem wearing eye protection.
 
I forgot to put mine on at the range last week and it was a very odd experience. I couldn't figure out what was different until the end of the shoot.
Of course, if I was in a less 'formal' setting, hunting or something, I probably wouldn't necessarily have them with me.
 
Yes, I not wear eye protections. I have good guns and make my cartridges.
Only when keep shooting with iron sights, I use + 0.5 eye glasses because am aboat 70-year old.
PS, I use hearing aid. Mayby never white stick. In my glass is Gutty Shark whiskey. :cool:
 
I am ashamed to say that I don't like to and avoid it when I can. My pistols seem to spit the casing well away from my eyes so I have never had a problem so far...
 
I'm going to be the odd-man-out and say that I don't in most cases.

Unless I have reason to believe the firearm or ammunition merits it, I typically shoot without it. If I have ENOUGH concern about the firearm or ammunition, I'm not going to shoot it.

While I realize that ANY protection that you have is better than not having it, I realize that practically any practical use I have for my rifle will be done without eye-protection.

I don't hunt with safety glasses on. It just isn't practical and can be a liability to the hunt.

This isn't a position I'm interested in arguing. It's just a statement of facts. I'd say do what is comfortable to you and what the situation merits.


-- John
 
Don't the shells eject to the right of semi-autos? I have some glasses, but I rarely remember to bring them with me to shoot, so I rarely wear them. Maybe I should more often.
 
If I'm shooting outdoors, I wear my 11 year old Oakley Romeo's (with prescription lenses). Indoors (which is rare), I usually just wear my prescription eyeglasses. Probably about time to update the prescription lenses in the Oakley's though.
 
I must to write; surplus shooers must to use eye protections. Volf and S&B-users ofcourse!
 
Almost always. When it gets real dark, I can't see with my shooting glasses on. (All of mine look like sunglasses.) I paid a few grand for LASIK surgery, so I don't want to screw my eyes up again. (ESPECIALLY on indoor ranges. Damn! I've never been hit by so much flying brass in my life!)
 
I have been hit all over, including the face, by pistol bullet fragments off of steel plate targets and rocks, once even by a whole bullet rebounding 15 yards off a well seasoned railroad tie when I flinched a shot below the target. Seen many other similar cases.

I have been hit in the head and face by hot brass ejected from autoloading rifles and pistols on the firing point to my left.

I once saw two (2.0) match conditioned AR15s kaBoom in consecutive relays at a highpower match.

You better believe I wear eye protection for ALL shooting.
 
Glasses are a good idea. You only have two eyes. I wear perscription glasses mostly and wear sun glasses over top outdoors. Sometimes I wear safety glasses that way too.
 
Glasses

I always wear perscription glasses so I never bought a pair and figured that these are good enough but after hearing some crazy stories of riccocets that have gone thru people shooting glasses its making me want to invest in a pair i can put on over my normal lens. Besides my lens are pretty small when I think about it, my eyes are already ****ed up I dont want to be blind next.
 
Usualy not. During matches, I try to, but my glasses tend to fog up, which isn't a good thing in the middle of a rapid fire string.

In 15 years of shooting I've never had anything more than a little bit of gas from my AR get back to my eyes.

I always make my kids at least wear their glasses and sometiimes they complain for the same reason, so then I get to play the "Do as I say and not as I do" card.
 
I was out on the range about 2 years ago and forgot my shooting glasses on my reloading bench. I just received my 40 Cal. Hi-Power and wanted to shoot it. About half way through the first mag, I was struck by a hunk of brass on the bridge of my nose. I dropped the gun on the table and ran to my truck to use the mirror to see what happened to me. It scared my son when he saw blood on my face. When I checked the ejected brass on the ground, I found that every case had swelled and split. If I had seen this, I would have put the gun away. This ammo was bought at a gun show. I stripped the rest of the box. I did not have my dies and componets for the 40 yet. I have never gone to the range since without my shooting glasses. They are in my shooting bag and I carry a spare pair for any one I shoot with that does not have a pair.
 
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