Safety glasses

[bigfatdave]

Adding good safety glasses is quite an upgrade for the user of the HEV suit for all your crowbar and firearms needs, Gordon ... or did you get the one with a helmet?

 

[Gordon_Freeman]

Response

Bigfatdave,
I was wondering if anyone recognized me here. I should probably ask the advice of Alyx and Eli Vance, Isaac Kleiner, Barney Calhoun, and Dog.
I was not expecting this many responses to this thread. Thanks for all the advice fellas.

 

[zoom6zoom]

Maybe someone could recommend some of safety glasses that are made to slip on over the perscription glasses. The problem I see with them is their optical resolution.

I know you can spend a lot more, but these are ANSI rated, fit over my glasses just fine and are clear enough that I forget I have them on. I buy them in bulk, so if I loan them, lose them, or mess them up it's not a big deal.

http://workingperson.com/work-acces...ition-ratcheting-safety-glasses-g40110id.html

 

[Mudinyeri]

Apparently, an alternative point of view ...

I've fired thousands and thousands of rounds over nearly four decades, never wearing anything more protective than my prescription eye glasses. This includes seven years in the U.S. Army as well as a variety of hunting, active shooting practice and other shooting activities. It also includes nearly every type of firearm on the planet - pistols, rifles, shotguns, full auto, 50 caliber, light anti-tank weapons, multiple-launch rocket systems ... you get the picture.

I've had numerous eye "incidents" while working in my garage with metal and wood but not a single one while shooting.

I'm not telling anyone not to wear safety glasses. I'm just saying the chances of actually needing them are pretty remote. To me it's a little bit like bicycle helmets. I did all kinds of crazy things as a kid on a bicycle without a helmet. Now, it seems to be the end of the world if someone is riding a bicycle and not wearing a helmet.

 

[suzukisam]

Well all I can say is that I could have bought everyone of you a pair of the best shooting glasses out there for what it cost me to have a .40 sw case shrapnel removed from my cornea in november. It isn't worth it guys. It funny while your laying on a table and you can watch a surgeon sew up your eyeball, you think, man those safety glasses sure are cheap! A little over 5000.00 is what getting my eyesight back cost me! Don't be like me I WAS STUPID!

 

[stonecutter2]

Thanks for the advice. Do I really need to worry if I'm shooting paper and clays with a dirt hill for a backstop with no one else shooting?

Yep, you do.

Before I got contacts (which make safety glasses much easier to wear), I used to slip safety glasses over my prescription glasses. Occasionally I would be lax about it, but tried to always wear them.

One time at an indoor range, sure enough, a piece of brass ejected weird and came right back at me and hit my safety glasses, putting a scrape in them. Had those been my prescription glasses, i'm not sure if they would have cracked, or whatever, but I certainly would have had a nasty scrape on some expensive glasses if nothing else. Instead, I bought another cheap pair of safety glasses and relegated the old ones to garage shop use.