Thread: Shooting Safety Glasses

Fuck I'm amazed how many that people don't value their eye sight

I'm a tradie & wear basic safety specs all the time ( tinted & non-tinted ) I'm amazed how many times I see guys not wearing any or have to tell people to put some protection on while on job sites ( especially using power tools )

As for shooting, I had a magnum suppressor blow many yeas ago at a gong shoot & luckily I was wearing a pair of basic Oakley "five" sunnies & yes they saved alot of small shit & rubbish going in my peepers, It took little chips out'a the lenses & I still use those glasses today, was probably the best $120 I ever spent.

I was lucky it was only a suppressor popping but if you have a major "breach explosion" then you need decent protection,remember you are firing a bomb 3" from you face & it's not just shit blowing apart & flying but the shock wave that causes the damage.

Invest in decent shooting glasses, If doing lots of range -target - gong shooting buy the best you can afford & use em, I use Scott AEGIS they are enormous stupid looking things but fuk they have great reviews & seem to work.

AS for in the hills, I use cheap safety specs, I know they won't work as well but offer some protection & don't care if I scratch or lose em.


Just look after ya eyes, they don't grow back.

I have worn glasses since I was 18 I am now 72 my glasses are hardened to safety standards and have kept shit out of my eyes on several occasions
from crappy .22rf ammo, leaky and blown primers, shit from semi-auto 22's ejection port never had a gun blow up had cases come back from semi-auto
pistols and bullet fragments from shots on steel targets, shoot enough and you will thank your eye protection one day

Originally Posted by shooternz

I have worn glasses since I was 18 I am now 72 my glasses are hardened to safety standards

It is amazing how the mind muddles things.... when I first read the above I read..." now 72 my eyes have hardened to safety standards... I must be a little lesdexic.

Some good stuff above, like Philpo I work in Maintenance in the mining industry... safety glasses are a part of every day life for me.

Where I was going with this thread is to find out about brands, tints, shapes, optical charactoristics etc that work and what the problems may be. I have need googling the subject and see that options go fro $5 specials to $1500 jobbies used by competition trap shooters.

I will visit my local shooting supplies shops soon and see what they may have.

As for the stories above, it reminded me about the slug gun pellet ricochet that drew blood on my forehead when I was young...

Thanks for all the good stuff

Planetnutz... Factory loads for now , hand loads in the near future.... and about 80 rounds per trip to the range