My solution was to get corrective lenses in high-quality safety glasses, it wasn't cheap but for shooting, riding motorcycles and a job that requires safety glasses all the time, it is worth it to me.How do those of you who wear prescription glasses approach this? I have yet to find anything that I can use that does not scratch the lenses of my prescription glasses.
Get some of these, or similar:How do those of you who wear prescription glasses approach this? I have yet to find anything that I can use that does not scratch the lenses of my prescription glasses.
Others have pointed out they must meet ANSI standards for safety.Will standard hardware store style safety glasses work for shooting? Or do I need to get some specialized shooting glasses?
The standard polycarbonate prescription lenses are not ANSI safety lenses, but you CAN get Rx safety glasses complete with removable side shields. They can be had in bifocal, trifocal or gradient, and can be treated for scratch resistance, sun shading, anti-glare or most any other lens treatment.I buy polycarbonate prescription lenses. They'll just have to do, even though they aren't quite as thick as polycarbonate safety glasses. I have enough trouble seeing through my high-dollar, high index, progressive lens glasses without putting another pair over them. I have tried it many times.
A hardened safety glass lens - which I understand is still used sometimes - is only 1/10th as impact resistant as a polycarbonate safety lens, so even a thinner poly lens is useful.
Here's a question. Are polycarb safety glasses treated with scratch protection? Polycarb is soft and scratches very easily (no matter what you do.)
ANSI and military safety standards are different both in terms of the diameter of the steel ball used in the test and the velocity.
www.elvex.com/high-impact-safety-glasses.htm
John