I am getting geared up for my first IDPA match. I wear prescription glasses with plastic lenses. I have shades that fit over them but they are not "shooting glasses". The shooting glasses I have looked at are sturdier than the shades, but not the prescription pair. My LGS tells me my glasses are good enough. I don't mind buying proper shooting glasses, but the ones I've looked at are ill fitting pieces of junk. If I decide to shoot in more of these matches, I plan on getting prescription shooting glasses. But that will have to wait till next year. Is my LGS right? How about my glasses plus my shades? As a last resort, I'll get the cheap ones and hope they stay on.
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If they are not marked with Z87 something then they probably are not rated, and may not with stand a impact from a fragment that may bounce back. If you are moving and the glasses are ill fitting they will likely come off or not protect you adequately. If you are getting into shooting get decent safety glasses with good side protection. Your eye's are not worth trying to get by. Just my take.
Good luck hope you get it figured out.
Good luck hope you get it figured out.
Go to your optometrist and get polycarbonate lenses for use at the range. I use single vision with a "computer glasses" prescription that focuses about a meter away so I can see the front sight clearly and shoot the somewhat blurred targets.
DO NOT SHOOT with glass or cheap plastic lenses, It is pointlessly risky. The jackets will bounce back from steel and hit you, maybe tomorrow, maybe next month. My optometrist refuses to sell anything but polycarbonate lenses to shooters because the others will likely fail when struck and can take out your eye.
DO NOT SHOOT with glass or cheap plastic lenses, It is pointlessly risky. The jackets will bounce back from steel and hit you, maybe tomorrow, maybe next month. My optometrist refuses to sell anything but polycarbonate lenses to shooters because the others will likely fail when struck and can take out your eye.
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You can get cheap, ugly safety glasses that will fit over your prescription glasses, and then retain them with an elastic band. Even the ugly ones will protect your eyes. I've been spattered on the side of the face with fragments from a revolver shooter at the next firing point, and I once had a fragment from my out of time revolver bounce back from the frame/forcing cone and go clean through my ear.
Don't ever gamble with your sight.
Don't ever gamble with your sight.
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