Rob Pincus

Safety Glasses

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When it comes to shooting, safety glasses are more essential than many people think. Impact resistance, distance from the face, side protection and fit are all issues that should be considered when you are choosing which safety glasses to wear to the range. It is very easy to be complacent about eye wear, but you may want to put some extra effort into how you chose to protect your eyes.

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8 Responses to “Safety Glasses”

  1. GARY

    I agree totally with what you are saying. What I am running into is that I have students show up for basic classes who need their prescription glasses to see targets and sights. I tell them the risks and suggest that they get some safety glasses but that is not practical initially for first time students. Any suggestions?

  2. Bill Richards

    Whats out there in safety glasses when you need to where daily glasses to correct vision

  3. Gordon D. Wollesen

    The only time I didn't wear safety glasses was in the military. I don't know why the military didn't have them. In fact, I didn't know why the military didn't have very much safety gear (Korean War)> I have worn safety glasses since starting to hunt and rec shoot (about 50+ years)! My safety glasses are the top rated safety glasses sold by a major Safety Equipment Company. I used these glasses while working for a railroad. Won't shoot without them!

  4. john

    once again all we hear about are glasses (safety/sun) that are solely useful for those who do not wear prescription glasses. my prescription glasses are shatter resistant, etc. but i prefer something additional for shooting. unfortunately, putting safety glasses over my prescription glasses is less than ideal. it certainly does not protect me from what is described in the video. so, does anyone have an answer for those of us who aren't 20/20 or wearing contacts?

  5. CD Stouffer

    for some reason your videos are not showing up on my mac. The rest of the page is ok, but the video section is completely white with nothing to suggest there is a video there but for the space. Any thoughts? CDS

  6. Big sexy

    Thanks for the tip

  7. Ron

    What is the brand of glasses that you are wearing in the video?

  8. Greg Raven

    This is why a hat is an essential part of your eye protection!

Let's talk about safety glasses. It's something that really, a lot of people take for granted when they're out on the range. And I know that I have many times been responsible for being out on the range and not wearing glasses that were actually safety glasses things that are purpose built to protect your eyes while you're actually out engaged in your shooting and your training. Even if it's just recreational shooting. Now it's easy enough to just throw good sunglasses on. And know that you are probably going to be safe and probably gonna be protected. But if you have purpose-built truly designed safety glasses you're really gonna be much safer in the event of some extreme situations. Now just about a month ago I had a situation where I was very close to a shooter. I was diagnosing their trigger control. They were firing shots, and a round a hot piece of brass came up onto my head came back down and actually came to rest inside of the earpiece up against my head. And I actually still probably have a little Mark there. I'm not sure if you can see it, but it was there. It's probably gonna be there for quite a while. Now, if that had gone a little bit lower and gone down into my actual eye area, it could have caused some serious damage. So when we think about proper safety glasses, One of the things we're definitely looking for is good wraparound coverage, and that the earpieces are very close to the actual head. So as you can see here with these particular glasses, they are very close. There really isn't any room for a piece of brass to get down in here and get caught behind the lens up against my eye, or to get caught here, even up against my skin and cause that burn from very hot brass. One of the nice things about this particular set of glasses is that they're very thin here in the earpiece area. Now this is on purpose. The reason that they're done that way is that you can wear earmuffs without having to worry about a thick ear piece, breaking the seal when you're out on the range. You wanna make sure that that earMuff seal is good and complete 360 degrees protects the ear. And if you put these on underneath those earmuffs there's very little chance of the seal being broken by this very thin plastic. The other thing we look for in a safety glass is that the lenses come all the way around as well. So not just at the ear pieces or close to the head but that the lens is actually come around and keep anything from getting in from the side. So sometimes I've worn sunglasses on the range that stop about here. They really just protect from the front. If you think of something like, you know your classic 1980 sunglasses, they're fine from the front but the sides are wide open. And if you don't have that wraparound, then pieces of brass can bounce off of things, especially if you're an indoor range or if you're in that line of shooters, their brass can eject and get caught behind that lens also. And sometimes it'll come to rest right up the base of the lens right up on top of your cheek. And again, if it's a hot piece of brass, that's dangerously close to your eye, we wanna think about how to use glasses as a safety device, not just wear glasses. So we were checking a box from the standpoint of knowing that we're doing what we're supposed to do on the range. And certainly not just to keep the glare from the sun down. Good safety glasses are different sunglasses. You need to put some thought and know exactly what you're wearing on the range and why.

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