The problem: I'm routinely damaging my shooting glasses and it's starting to piss me off.
I don't need corrective lenses but I do religiously wear eye pro when shooting. When I shoot ARs with iron sights from some positions, my nose is right up against the charging handle and sometimes my glasses are very very close to the rear sight assembly. Then recoil will sometimes bump it back to touch the lens.
This isn't a problem shooting from a bench, or standing, or slung in prone ... ie, when I have a good cheek weld and the stock is tight against my body. It mostly happens in less comfortable positions.
This is what happens over time:
I know the best/correct answer here is "back up off the CH a little" or possibly "get a smaller nose" but again the problem is mostly when shooting from positions where I can't brace myself or the rifle optimally.
"Put the rifle in a Lead Sled and pull the trigger with a string from behind a shed" would also work, I suppose.
In the meantime, while I'm learning to shoot better from poorly supported positions I'd like to minimize the number of pairs of glasses I fuck up.
I had about 6 pairs of these Revision glasses left over from my last fobbit deployment, and they're OK, but the plastic lenses are kind of soft and scratch easily, even when I'm not putting recoil-dents into them. The glasses were free and the lenses are easily swapped for a new $20-30 lens of Amazon ... but the lens plastic seems so soft and vulnerable to scratches that sometimes I think I could gouge them with a fingernail.
So -
1) Any recommendations for super tough scratch-resistant glasses that still offer good ballistic protection?
2) Do there exist any replaceable plastic laminate kind of products, like the thin film people put on the touch surface of iPads and smart phones, that can go over lenses? All the stuff I see seems to be designed for protecting flat glass, not curved lenses.
Thanks.
I don't need corrective lenses but I do religiously wear eye pro when shooting. When I shoot ARs with iron sights from some positions, my nose is right up against the charging handle and sometimes my glasses are very very close to the rear sight assembly. Then recoil will sometimes bump it back to touch the lens.
This isn't a problem shooting from a bench, or standing, or slung in prone ... ie, when I have a good cheek weld and the stock is tight against my body. It mostly happens in less comfortable positions.
This is what happens over time:
I know the best/correct answer here is "back up off the CH a little" or possibly "get a smaller nose" but again the problem is mostly when shooting from positions where I can't brace myself or the rifle optimally.
"Put the rifle in a Lead Sled and pull the trigger with a string from behind a shed" would also work, I suppose.
In the meantime, while I'm learning to shoot better from poorly supported positions I'd like to minimize the number of pairs of glasses I fuck up.
I had about 6 pairs of these Revision glasses left over from my last fobbit deployment, and they're OK, but the plastic lenses are kind of soft and scratch easily, even when I'm not putting recoil-dents into them. The glasses were free and the lenses are easily swapped for a new $20-30 lens of Amazon ... but the lens plastic seems so soft and vulnerable to scratches that sometimes I think I could gouge them with a fingernail.
So -
1) Any recommendations for super tough scratch-resistant glasses that still offer good ballistic protection?
2) Do there exist any replaceable plastic laminate kind of products, like the thin film people put on the touch surface of iPads and smart phones, that can go over lenses? All the stuff I see seems to be designed for protecting flat glass, not curved lenses.
Thanks.
