Range rules - safety glasses over regular glasses?

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Do range rules these days typically require safety glasses over top one's regular eyeglasses?

EDIT: Thanks so much for your replies, everyone!
 
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If you are concerned Revision combat glasses have a prescription insert. I still have mine from the military. They are excellent all round eye protection without sacrificing vision.
 
fraserdw said:
If you are concerned Revision combat glasses have a prescription insert. I still have mine from the military. They are excellent all round eye protection without sacrificing vision.
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That's a good idea. I have only noticed in the last few years that my eyes are not as good. I did the regular things like buying a 70inch tv first before I realized it was my eyes having trouble reading from distance lol.

Now i wear a weak prescription when shooting and hey have helped my iron sight shooting. Also I read them if I have to do a lot of reading. Combat lenses would be perfect if just for shooting. I honestly just wear my glasses when shooting. Sometimes Sun glasses substitute if I forget to change to the prescription lenses that live in my gun tool box.
 
You should always wear ear and eye protection. Either start wearing contacts and use regular safety glasses or get some good prescription ones. They're especially important if shooting steel at closer ranges or shooting clay target games, particularly skeet. 98% of the time you will be okay but if you shoot a lot eventually something will happen at the range where you will be really glad you were wearing safety glasses. As they say, you can lose a thumb, get a prosthetic and still enjoy about the same quality of life, they dont have anything that will restore a destoyed eyeball, yet.
 
Prescription inserts, or contact lenses and regular safety glasses, are the two best protections for corrected eyes.
 
They don't enfore glasses-over-glasses here, but yeah, normal glasses don't offer that much protection.

I've gotten 'hit' by some carbon fragment a couple of years ago and it scratched a big part of the cornea... I was wearing normal glasses at the time. It hurt for a long time, and i could feel the severe itching sensation for years afterwards.

+1 for the revision pro-wear. A couple of eye places here in Ottawa can make the lense inserts for 100$ IIRC.
 
Mine stated optional pending condition of the glasses themselves. If they were not damaged than its fine one way or the other.
 
tharkhold said:
They don't enfore glasses-over-glasses here, but yeah, normal glasses don't offer that much protection.

I've gotten 'hit' by some carbon fragment a couple of years ago and it scratched a big part of the cornea... I was wearing normal glasses at the time. It hurt for a long time, and i could feel the severe itching sensation for years afterwards.

+1 for the revision pro-wear. A couple of eye places here in Ottawa can make the lense inserts for 100$ IIRC.
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Would you mind sharing which places in Ottawa?

thankl you
 
My work requires me to wear eye protection and hearing protection. So I have custom molded db blocker earplugs and CSA stamped impact resistant prescription glasses with side shields. Glasses over glasses is not exactly comfortable, and shooting requires corrected sight, so I'm lucky to have suitable PPE.
 
cat6_racer said:
Do range rules these days typically require safety glasses over top one's regular eyeglasses?

EDIT: Thanks so much for your replies, everyone!
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Depends on the range. Guys at my club just use their regular glasses. But be forewarned that brass can come and hit and chip it. Then stuck walking around with clips and scratches on your own glasses. I personally bought a cheap pair of RX safety glasses for around 50 $ from places like Zenni Optical. Than my regular glasses.

But I have had brass come down and land between my frames and face.
 
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