Safety Glasses Poll

How Often Do You Wear Safety Glasses?

  • Always

    Votes: 278 64.4%

  • Most of the time

    Votes: 71 16.4%

  • Sometimes, if I'm required to

    Votes: 53 12.3%

  • Never or almost never

    Votes: 30 6.9%
  • Total voters
    432
  • Poll closed .
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For folks looking for over the glasses safety glasses, UVEX makes a couple of different types that are easy to fit. An alternative is getting an inexpensive pair of safety glasses with the simple "cheater" lenses.
 
Every time and everyone that shoots with me does because I have spares with me.
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Same here. I always have extra pairs of all safety equipment (glasses, muffs, plugs) when I'm going shooing with friends. If for some reason I don't have enough for the number of people going, I swing by the local Wal-Mart or sports store and pick up what we need.
 
I ordered Rx safety glasses when I had flex spending money left near the end of the year. I had only worn my regular glasses prior to that while shooting. Mine are clear but I put on grey clip on lenses on when shooting outside.
 
I wear safety glasses whenever I do something that could cause something to fly into my eyes, Shooting, priming, machining, grinding, burning. It's always the time you said to yourself, "Awwwwwww, I won't take long and I'm careful.", and BAM something goes right into your eyes.
 
Prescription lenses, or sun glasses always! No reason not to on a range. We're not talking war zone hear.

I keep extra with me in case I ever take anyone.
 
I wear them most of the time. Sometimes I just flat out forget unless I see another shooter with them on.

The outdoor range I always remember because I'm never the only shooter.

The indoor range is a different story and they have a habit of fogging up. I'll take em off to defog,load up a magazine, and forget to put them back on.
 
+1 Always wear glasses on the range!!!

There have been a couple of occasions on and off the shooting range where a pair of glasses (shooting and sunglasses) protected me from eye injury.

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I not only wear them, pretty much all of the time I'm out and about I wear my Wiley-x sunglass/goggles. It's not a bad idea to always have your eyes protected to some degree.
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My daily wear glasses - so I can see - are polycarbonate - and thicker than the generic shooting glasses or shades made of polycarbonate.
 
I was doing volunteer work at the local DWR range. We were putting up a sun screen. The range required that we were safety glasses. Until that day I thought it was a good idea but didn't fully appreciate how good an idea it was.

Where we were working on the sunscreen was several feet behind the firing line. While we were working we had shooter on the line with an AR. I can't remember what I was doing exactly but I couldn't move I was holding the screen or something. The point of this rambling post is this; while I was there AR brass bounced off my safety glasses 3 times.

If I were not wearing the glasses the brass may bounced off my eyeballs.

I always where some sort of eye protection on the range either my prescription glasses or safety glasses.
 
Well, I am a prescription glasses wearer too. But, this time of year when the motorcycle comes out I wear safety glasses when I remember, which is most of the time. I wear them shooting, riding and casting. I wear my regular glasses for all of those events too.

I am considering this site though....

http://www.opticsplanet.com/
 
I wear ordinary vision corrective glasses with fairly substantial polycarbonate lenses. I would like to get some decent prescription Wiley X style glasses at some point, but haven't gotten around to it.

Wearing over-the-glasses industrial goggles over regular glasses when shooting in eastern NC humidity is a very good way to simulate shooting in thick fog, which is why I don't use those.
 
When learning to shoot and through my younger years, my father always had hearing protection for us but I don't recall wearing glasses as a kid.

I started wearing safety glasses within the last 10 years or so and now they're the first thing I reach for when doing anything that could mess up my eyes. I'd be quite disappointed in myself if I lost my vision because I didn't put on simple pair of specs...
 
I don't understand people who don't wear some sort of eye protection. Eventually, you'll find out why you should. Hearing and eye protection always, always, always.
 
I wear them at shooting ranges. In the woods, no. I always wear ear protection.
 
Range requirement vs. Shooting out in the sticks

Are your rural shooting areas immune from ricochets, blowback, and all other mishaps?

Funny, I target shoot out in public land, and I still get hit in the face with blowback and whatnot. You'd think that since there are no range rules out there, that mishaps just don't happen.:rolleyes:
 
I always wear safety glasses when shooting. When I first started shooting a few years ago I didn't want to wear them but my wife insisted. The second magazine I ran through my pistol a hot shell bounced off my glasses and down my shirt. It was unpleasant enough on my skin, I was glad it hadn't hit my eye. So I decided she was right and I always wear them since.
 
Are your rural shooting areas immune from ricochets, blowback, and all other mishaps?

Funny, I target shoot out in public land, and I still get hit in the face with blowback and whatnot. You'd think that since there are no range rules out there, that mishaps just don't happen.
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Really? The reason some of us only wear glasses at the range isn't because of any increased risk, it's because some ranges make you wear them. I didn't start this thread with the intent to say that I think people should or shouln't wear eye protection. Do whatever you want, I'm not your mother. I was just curious because there seem to be a lot of people who think not wearing safety glasses is somehow the end of the world. But of course, there are people who just have to start an arguement in every thread and be degrading to others because their way is the only right way...

The arguement about operating macinery that spits stuff into the air like sandblasting or cutting rebar or whatever, that has nothing to do with this thread, at all. Duh, if you're gonna do something that is going to spit tiny particles all over and around your face then you should probably wear some eye protection. But this thread isn't about that.

Hearing protection: here is a real risk, guns make loud noises every time you shoot them. It's hard to argue against that. I think almost everybody here uses hearing protection. This thread is about eye protection.

To be honest I think the risk is pretty low, otherwise I'd wear protection more often than I do. Like the arguement about hot brass hitting you in the eye, gee I've never had that happen. If I had a firearm that shot brass at my face I would either get rid of it or wear glasses. The truth is most of us don't have guns that do this. Also, the average non-moron would just go stand somewhere else or duck his head if he was in the way of flying brass. But, I guess, you could just put on safety glasses and take it:rolleyes:
 
Always

I was a "sometimes" guy until this incident:

In 2007 I was standing beside Bob Smith (FRGC president & LFI instructor) when (while shooting my Taurus PT911) he took a jacket fragment in the eye.

He was sighting over the top of his everyday glasses, pulled the trigger, turned to me, blinking, and said, "do you see anything in this eye?" We flushed it (I carry eyedrops), but it still bothered him.

Next morning he went to the ophthalmologist and had a sliver of copper removed from his eyeball.

Hey, it may never happen.

It's one of those "stakes vs odds" things.

When you're standing right there when it happens, the argument about how "likely" it is just disappears.

 
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I didn't just get banned, did I? :eek:

Edit by mod:
No, sorry, it was a bad link. I grabbed the link from an old quote list of mine without checking its validity. Oops. I've removed it and updated the explanation.​
 
I didn't just get banned, did I?
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It isn't working for me either :uhoh: I think the main point is in the quote though. Also please understand I would never say that wearing eye protection is a bad idea. I just don't appreciate being called an idiot because I don't. Please, for all of you who wear eye protection, do continue to do so. I'm sure as I get older I'll do it more and more. I wish I wore sunglasses because that would be an easy fix, but as it is I cannot stand them.
 
jake...

I get it, you only wear them because the range makes you. Bravo. You obviously couldn't understand what I was saying. I was saying that your position suffers from inexperience. You don't realize how probable mishaps are, so you won't wear them until one happens to you or unless you are required to do so. That's wonderful. It's not the end of the world, just your eyesight. Have a ball. But newsflash: when you fire a gun, tiny particles are spit violently from the gun. Get one in your eye and you'll wear protection thereafter. Hopefully it'll be minor and not major when it happens.
 
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