Safety Glasses?

[Straight Shooter]

Yes, always both eyes and ears.

A while back I had read an article about canting your gun 15-45 degrees to the left (right handed shooter) causes a more natural faster draw and faster target acquisition. "Think of throwing a punch" it said "your fist is naturally turned inward".

I tried this out at the range, fired the first shot at about 45 degrees and took the casing to the forehead. Fired a second shot at about 15 degrees and the casing hit the right lens of my shooting glasses.

Needless to say that ended the experiment.

Glad I had my glasses on.

 

[LAK]

What got me to thinking about this is all the YouTube videos of people shooting without glasses.

Very early on in my shooting activities it was the loss of eyes and eye injuries in shooting mishaps of one sort or another that got me thinking.

I wear protective glasses quite often even driving and at work. I had a friend in my school days that lost sight in one eye when a large pheasant came through the windshield of the car they were a passenger in. A small glass fragment hit just the right spot.

Last year I was on the freeway one evening with my window down when the right front tire of the pickup that was passing me in the lane to my left blew out. Fortunately I did not get hit by anything at all, but the tire literally exploded. It was like standing a few yards level with the muzzle of a rifle discharge - my left ear was smarting for quite awhile.

Eye injuries are among the most common in many activities and often routine everyday life. A pair of good optically quality glasses that look very much like clear lens sunglasses are very cheap. About $5.00. If they were $500 they would still be cheap compared to the costs of a lost eye(s).

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[polekitty]

Protect eyes & ears

Absolutely. Always. I've never been hit with one of my own brass, but have been hit numerous times with brass from another firing position.

Ears? Right on. And I don't use plugs. Having worked in a lab using (extremely loud) shock and vibration testing, I found that so much noise is picked up through the skull that plugs just didn't work. Muffs stop all kinds of noise. And, even with my advanced age, I can still enjoy my music and hear the birds sing in the woods.