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Offline minuteman

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Colored Lens
« on: November 30, 2008, 09:29:22 AM »
What color lens is best for shooting black sillhouetes?

What color lens is best for shooting orange sillhouetes?

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Re: Colored Lens
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2008, 09:41:33 AM »
There is a reddish or orangish tinted lens offered with most all shooting glasses that are of any real quality at all. It is called by different names by different makers I think but for orange targets it is the best.

For black to me at least it varies depending on lighting conditions. In over cast conditions or early morning before the sky brightens I prefer yellow and under bright clear skies I prefer gray or brown tinted lens tho even then the reddish/orange is good and very useable. Many skeet shooters use it any time the sky is bright regardless of color of targets thrown. It works equally well for other shooting disciplines as well.

Those have become the only colors I use in my various shooting glasses and I usually keep a set of them set up with each color so I don't have to change lens and just select the one that seems best for the current lighting conditions and might change as the light condition changes.


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Offline Jerry G

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Re: Colored Lens
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2009, 02:35:28 AM »
I got a set of the Leupold collored lenses about a year ago and I haven't shot a mach with any of them.  I can't see that they help at all.