Do you shoot using safety glasses?

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When working with any sort of compressed air, I think it's very foolish not too. I work in the firearms industry full time. Anytime I am anywhere near a range I have eye pro on. Things happen and a crazy thing only has to happen to you once to change your life.

I've had situations where a blow breech seal leads to air being blow into my face. Very easy to imagine a piece of lead or other debris could be part of that and scratch a cornea like a MF.

IME, people who despise eye pro have horrible cheap safety glasses. I invested in a pair of Oakley TR-45's and I wouldn't want to shoot without them. No fog, no glare, lenses that enhance target contrast...tres bien!!
 
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I have safety glasses sitting on my compressor, I use every fill, several pairs in the garage or on a little table in the house
the only time I should use them and don't is when I shoot my air guns,,, I have experienced a couple of ricochets and have eliminated those sources
chain saws grinder sanders drill press and other asst power tools ,,, I AM wearing protection, even a motorcycle ride, I like eye protection
maybe I should find some quality glasses for shooting like those Oakleys, as I have not looked through a pair,,, yet :geek::cool:
 
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I don’t have prescription glasses (yet, probably soon) so my eye pro is not automatic.

I do buy and use tinted ansi z.81 safety glasses as sunglasses, so in bright conditions I’m always covered. Shooting a firearm I always wear them. Shooting airgun I’m not as consistent as I should be. Pellets tend to stay downrange but not always: I had a pellet fragment hit my shirt last year shooting field target and that was lesson enough. Shooting pellets at paper targets without firearms around is where I’m definitely lazy and should wear them more often.
 
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Saint_J said:
If you don't, why not?

If you do, did something happen to make you start wearing them, or have you just always done it?
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I have had at least one set on my desk (my indoor range shooting table) since my very first adult air rifle purchase back around '19 or '20, and got sloppy about wearing them over the years. Recently, I decided to use lead free pellets as much as possible and found I was getting more ricochets than I had, and the force with which they bounced around between walls, floor and ceiling made a BIG impression right quick(ly)! I started thinking about losing an eye with safety glasses lying there within reach and then trying to explain that to my wife and... ;-) So, eventually, I bowed to plain good sense and decided that safety glasses should be a standard part of the airgun experience wherever they're in use. That's the gold standard I should strive for, but for me, there's no excuse whatsoever for not using them indoors. My sight is much too precious a gift to risk on something so easily preventable.
 
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Fatmike said:
I dont wear saftey glasses as much as I used to. I got complacent/ lazy. I am trying to get myself back in the habit though. I've been using cheap clear saftey glasses and am wondering what other people use. Color lens or polarized or not?
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As long as you're using something to protect your eyes, everything else is gravy: very glad to hear you going back to 'em! I found myself in the almost identical situation recently after years of indoor shooting, but after a very powerful ricochet from my trap that caromed off the wall and ceiling made it back to my shooting area thirty feet back with much too much heat still on it, I couldn't help but think of how stupid I'd have felt losing an eye with two sets (one clear and one yellow) of safety glasses lying on my desk within easy reach (much less trying to explain the whole thing to my wife). ;-) Easy decision.
 
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