Does everyone wear saftey glasses while shooting?

[deerhunter]

Hello Everyone,

I am lefty, and have been shooting a right handed Renegade for about 20 years and a TC Black diamond for about 3 years.   I always have worn shooting glasses when I shoot both at the range, and while hunting.  Sometimes I find bits of the cap blown away, and I dont want to have to dig them out of my eyes.

Does everyone else wear them while hunting?  When I'm in the woods hunting up here in Massachusetts, I'm usually the only one wearing shooting glasses.

I know they never wore them in the old days.......but there were a lot of guys wearing eye patches back then too.

[Medbill]

I wear my prescription shooting glasses whenever I shoot ANYTHING!  Anyone that doesn't is flirting with disaster.  :eek:  

Billy

[filmokentucky]

Ditto! And my prescription glasses are shatter proof.

[pinduck]

Yes my prescription glasses are always worn while shooting, seems good sense to me. I do have a yellow tinted pair for high definition in heavy woods. I find them to be helpful.

[S.S.]

Without a doubt! and without fail!
A ruptured case in a 93 mauser tought me a lesson
many years ago. I carried burnt powder under my
skin for years after that! Only Gods grace for an old
fool like me saved my eye sight that day!

[Black Jaque Janaviac]

I normally don't.  But interestingly I've got a pair ordered from Cabela's.  I guess with the various colors available nowadays each with it's own purpose you can't loose.  I'm told the orange tints actually help make brown critters stand out - any truth to that?

Here am I, the guy who scorns technology while hunting.  Maybe I'll just where the clear ones for hunting purposes.

[filmokentucky]

Black Jaque-just don't get a pair with camouflage lens. They make the whole forest disappear. I couldn't see a thing. Had to stand in the same spot for six hours until my friends came and got me! They sure worked good though. I went right out and bought another pair just in case I lost the first pair. Can't be too careful, ya know.

[JPSaxMan]

filmo, please tell me you're kidding me about the whole forest thing? See...if you're not...there's one simple solution (I might sound like a complete idiot if I say it so I'm not going to ). Well, I shoot a flintlock and several times I've heard the embers whack the lens of my shooting glasses, so I'm glad I did. But I somehow lost the pair I had :cry: . I still think they're around the house somewhere but God help me I can't find them. Oh well. Stay safe.  

[sabotloader]

I really kind feel guilty saying this, but normally I do not wear glasses, they fog up way to much...  I will say I do use a safety glasses when I am developing loads but that is about the only time.

I do spend a lot of time trying to maintain my equipment so that it never reaches anything close to sub-standard.

[roundball]

I NEVER shoot any kind of firearm without both eye & ear protection, except when I'm actually hunting...

[quickdtoo]

I really kind feel guilty saying this, but normally I do not wear glasses, they fog up way to much...  I will say I do use a safety glasses when I am developing loads but that is about the only time.

I do spend a lot of time trying to maintain my equipment so that it never reaches anything close to sub-standard.

I've been bespectacled since I was 9 yrs old, can't see much at all without em, so I've learned to hunt with em. The best way to keep em from fogging is to not work up a sweat and not breath on em. Using one of the commercial preps for no-fog will work to keep em clear if you work on the 2 former methods of lense fog prevention. Been there, done that.....for a whole lot of years. :wink:

[roundball]

Fogging up:

I shoot most every Saturday year round, and in spite of getting to the range early in the morning, the July & August heat and humidity occasionally contribute to them fogging up when I settle in over the rifle.

But the alternative is too risky for me...shooting flintlocks, I feel tiny bits of debris hitting my forehead from time to time so I decided to deal with occasional fogging for the peace of mind I get with the protection from shooting glasses...

 

[KING]

Glasses worn without fail either hunting or target shooting.  Have a set with multiple colored lenses and they work great..........stay safe.......King

[deerhunter]

Thanks you all, its good to know I'm in good company now.

I did find that amber lenses with UV protection really increase the contrast looking THROUGH brush.    I have tryed this and it works, you guys try it and let me know if you find the same thing.  Look at a tree line/brush line from a field or road that is about 50 yards away while your not wearing the amber lenses.  Then put the glasses on, while you are looking.  I find that with the glasses on, i notice stuff through and behind the cover very easily, and withouth them, the cover is like a wall, and i cant see thru it as good.

When its really cold, and they fog easily when your walking or climbing, i slide them about a third of an inch down my nose, and the ventilation keeps them clear.

[unspellable]

<< I know they never wore them in the old days.......but there were a lot of guys wearing eye patches back then too. >>

My great grandfather didn't wear an eye patch.  He had a glass eye.

(Yes, it was a case of no eye protection while shooting.)

[crow_feather]

I felt the bits of brass and other tiny objects just below the eyepiece of the glasses I was wearing when the primer of a 22-250 case let go.

Glasses fogged up may make me loose an elk but they will never make me loose an eye.  I'll go for the latter.

C F

[S.S.]

I caught a piece of a #11 percussion cap in the back of my right
hand once too. That would have really done a job on a retina!

[filmokentucky]

There are anti-fogging materials available and they work well. I bought some at a gun show a few years ago and use it often. Unfortunately, the
label is long gone, but it is the same stuff our military uses on their optical equipment. Most opticians probably carry a version of it--I'll bet Wally World has it, too. Cabela's Fall Master Catalog Edition II has some on page 595.