Safety Glasses Poll

[Lonestar49]

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I wear them every time, anytime, in one format or another just like doing yard work, working in the bushes, turning one's head (into something just right) breaking up small broken twigs, etc., etc., as it only takes but once, and if your lucky a second time, to play it smart and safe.. when it comes to anything that can, quickly (cause that how it always happens) come flying into unprotected eyes..

I have no objections to anyone's choice, but once bitten, most understand the need as, just like once you launch a bullet, there's no calling it back, the same truth can hold true once you take something in the eye, you can't call it back and risk permanent injury or worse, loss..

To each his own, but all it takes is, as the old saying goes.. "one silver bullet to bring ya down.."


Luck,


Ls

 

[natman]

Depends on how you define "safety" glasses. I always wear decent sized plastic prescription glasses, but only to see.

If I didn't I'd wear shooting glasses every time.

 

[M2 Carbine]

I have to admit I never wear "safety glasses".
I wear prescription tri focals but the lens isn't real safety glass.

 

[LeonCarr]

Back when I was about 20, we were out shooting skeet one day. The next day my eye started bothering me. I went to the doctor and he removed a black speck from the white part of my left eye. Guess what that was?

I was a sometime guy until that day, now I am an always guy.

Just my .02,
LeonCarr

 

[KBintheSLC]

I always wear either clear safety glasses or regular sunglasses. Its a good idea to protect your eyes when shooting. I have been hit by bullet fragments on more than one occasion. One fragment lodged itself a good 2mm into my cheek... had to pull it out with tweezers. If that had hit my naked eye, I'd look like a pirate right now.

 

[SwordRapier]

For me safety glasses are like ccw. I'd rather have them and not need them then need them and not have 'em.

 

[stonecutter2]

I wear them most of the time. I wear glasses anyways, so i always have something over my eyes, but i almost always wear shooting glasses, if even over my regular glasses.

One time i was shooting my SA GI .45 and a casing ricocheted off the wall of the lane i was in, and guess where it hit. Yep, right square where my right eye is. Luckily i was wearing my safety glasses, so it scratched them and not my prescription glasses. I was really glad I wore them that day! It saved me a trip to buy a new lens for my prescription glasses, and keeping anything over my eyes saved me serious injury.

I've also gotten blasted a bit with some .357 powder spraying a bit backwards out of my revolver...the glasses covered my eyes so i didn't get burning powder in them! My face got speckled a bit :\

Our local range requires glasses and ear plugs/cans, so it's an always when i shoot there. When I'm out in the country with friends - not nearly as often as I should, but i still do wear them most of the time.

 

[hso]

Just curious as to how many THR shooters wear safety glasses and to what extent....I bet the absence of safety glasses is more common than the OP thinks.

2/3 rds of the 165 members to respond said they wear them all the time. 80% said most of the time or all the time.

Seems like the great majority of member think it's important to protect their eyesight by wearing some protection while shooting.

 

[Lee Roder]

I wear them everytime I shoot, partly because I need glasses to see the target!

Me too. Sucks but otherwise my entire sight picture's a blur.

 

[wankerjake]

jake...

I get it, you only wear them because the range makes you. Bravo. You obviously couldn't understand what I was saying

I could see what you meant, but thought you worded it poorly, when you could tell (I assume) that the reason I don't wear them out in the sticks has nothing to do with incresed or decreased risk. If you wanted to bring that point up you could have done it in a more mannerly way and it would have added to the discussion instead of being rude about it and calling me out. Take a look at the thread and most of the responses relate worthwhile experiences about why one does or does not use eye protection, and then take a look at your post and leadcounsel's post and tell me you don't see a difference in attitudes. It's just rude and it takes away from the discussion instead of adding to it. For what it's worth, I disagree only with your approach to the topic, and not at all with your position.

 

[hso]

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.

I work in the safety profession and the folks that don't want to wear safety glasses in the workplace say the same things. "Never saw it happen before." "Nothing close has ever happened to me." "I can't get used to them." They're usually the one that the odds catch up to because when luck fails them they don't have anything between them and a trip to the eye doctor.

Casings may eject "funny" due to underpowered ammunition instead of a defective handgun. Shoot enough different ammo long enough and you'll encounter a casing that bounces off your face instead of 6 ft to the right. Same for shooting on a range or with a buddy. Primers may be loose and spew burnt/burning powders. Premature ignition may occur and a ruptured case might spit brass or the gun come apart. Odds are low, but the consequences are severe. If the world were 100% predictable we'd check our calendars for the scheduled encounter with the bad guy and schedule a conflict instead of practicing awareness or carrying a gun for the chance encounter.

 

[BullRunBear]

Eye and ear protection is mandatory at our range but the eye protection was never discretionary for me. I needed glasses to see the target unless it was 4 inches away and my glasses used safety lenses. A couple of weeks ago I got contact lenses (they can finally handle my level of astigmatism). The first stop after leaving the optometrist was to get sunglasses and safety glasses for shooting.

One advantage is that I can now use one of those Meritt optical diaphrams. I didn't want to attach one to my regular glasses but have no problem doing so with the shooting glasses.

Jeff

 

[Dravur]

Considering that I don't want to have to get a parrot and start saying ARRRR....I wear glass every time. I also wear ear plug and muffs as my ears are important as well.

If you don't wanna wear eye and ear protection.... well, that's just crazy talk

 

[Dominus]

Any time I shoot I have safety glasses on.

 

[Skillet]

I always forget to, but I just got some as of recent and I will use them when out at the range from now on. Most of the time I wear sunglasses because in an outdoor deserty range things can get into your eye easily if it is on a windy day. We recently switched from earplugs to earmuffs, and I tell you! it's nice.

 

[meadmkr]

When I wore prescription glasses they were always on for shooting/hunting. I wore contacts a bit so I wore SGs then and now after Lasik I always wear them, even for yard work!
Normally I like clear or smoke colored but have picked up vermillion and orange to try for skeet shooting. Never really liked the amber lenses for some reason though.

 

[CoRoMo]

Just last Saturday I took a .22 semi-auto rifle out that I had recently fixed (now that thing runs like water falls!). I had eye and ear protection on and I was firing away into a backstop. I was videotaping the shoot and I watched it later at home. The video camera picked up the sound of a ricochet that I never would have heard with my ears plugged. I don't know where that bullet ended up, but it certainly didn't stay where I sent it.

 

[Dokkalfar]

I almost always do, except for occasionaly the time I'm using the 9x scope on the .270 to check shots from the .22s (3x just isnt too great at 50 or 100yds)

But the sunglasses I usually wear are actually safety glasses, a nice green pair from Nemesis They're actually designed to help protect from infrared/UV when welding, but I kinda like em in general. Turns the whole world green!

Meets ANSI Z87.1+ impact standard. The lenses shall be capable of resisting impact from a 6.35mm (1/4 in.) steel ball traveling at 45.7m/s (150 ft/s).

not quite gonna save me from a direct eye-shot, but not too bad

 

[JoeSlomo]

Always wear eye pro.

I consider 20 bucks a good investment on protecting my vision.

 

[MarineOne]

I wear glasses to see so I always make sure I get polycarbonate lenses to help protect my eyes, or use my Oakley's with my prescription in their lens.

For my wife and boys its shooting glasses all the time, every time.

 

[danprkr]

Taking hot brass in the eye is NOT fun so I always wear them. Doesn't always matter though, I had one piece of 9mm brass that wedged itself between the frame and my temple, and I wound up with a brass shaped burn for a few days. Fortunately it didn't affect my eyes per se, but it was kind of annoying.

 

[Ky Larry]

Saw a person loose an eye in the Air Force many years ago. An ounce of prevention............

 

[deadeyedog270]

I have glasses for seeing distance and they are inpact resist lenses have been real good between the house remodeling,woodworking, reloading and shooting I do
be for I had to get glasses I did wear safty glasses alot I use to mow for people (8 lawns a week) never know when mowing or trimming somthing might fly up I always wear ear protection to

 

[Ragnar Danneskjold]

I wear Oakley Half Jackets or Revision Sawfly's when I shoot at all times. Eye protection is a fundamental of shooting IMO.

 

[kanook]

You can walk with a wooden leg

You can shake hands with a wooden arm

You can't see with a glass eye

I was 12 and had just convinced my father that I was capable of owning my own 22. About 2 hours later I came home with a bb lodged under the eye muscle of my left eye. I caught a ricochette and got very lucky. The bb hit on the ridge of my eye socket and could've gone either way. Needless to say I ALWAYS WEAR EYE PROTECTION.