Posted October 28, 2015 2:23 pm by Comments

By James Tarr

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When you head to the range, you need appropriate protective safety gear, which basically means eye and hearing protection — informally known as “eyes and ears.” But saying you need eye and ear protection is like saying you need shoes, and there’s a big difference between steel-toed hiking boots and strapless pumps with five-inch heels. Let’s look at eye protection first.

Simple question with an easy answer — why do you wear eye protection at the range? To keep things out of your eyes. Since we’re talking about shooting, that means eyeglasses that wrap around or protect your eyes from the side as well, as ricochets happen.

Anyone who has ever worked in a factory has worn safety glasses, but there is a difference between simple safety glasses and ballistic shooting glasses. Safety glasses are designed to stop debris from getting into your eyes. Ballistic glasses have met the military requirement for ballistic resistance testing and the ANSI requirement for high velocity impacts. Many companies such as Champion make both types of glasses, but don’t simply search for the term “ballistic.” Bollé sells 77 different types of “safety glasses” in addition to “tactical spectacles,” but many of their …Read the Rest

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