Hi folks,

I'm getting set up and just about ready to start reloading but have a question for those who reload and wear eye glasses. Is there a type of safety glasses, or perhaps goggles that you wear over your eye glasses while reloading. I'm not sure how much protection the eye glasses by themselves would provide, although I'm guilty of shooting at the range wearing only them.

Thanks,

YB

Different types of eyeglass lenses offer just as much ballistic protection from the frontal zone as many types of safety glasses. Polycarbonate lenses aren't all that expensive for your eyeglasses and are very tough though they don't work well in higher corrections.
Check with your eyeglass lens maker for advice.
Also some types of shooting glasses can be fitter with RX inserts (Wiley-X) for example. If your worried about side protection check them out.................DJ

The most common prescription eye glasses lens are made of "CR32" which is also the most safety glasses lens.

geekay is right.. and safety glasses have side shields.. which you can buy at wallyworld and use on your glasses.

jeffe

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Originally posted by Yankee-Bill:
Hi folks,

I'm getting set up and just about ready to start reloading but have a question for those who reload and wear eye glasses. Is there a type of safety glasses, or perhaps goggles that you wear over your eye glasses while reloading. I'm not sure how much protection the eye glasses by themselves would provide, although I'm guilty of shooting at the range wearing only them.

Thanks,

YB

The safety goggles that fit over eyeglasses are quite bulky. For reloading purposes there just isn't anything gonna come at you with enough force to shatter eyeglasses.

Prescription eyeglasses can be made as safety glasses. They have MUCH heavier frames than most of what you see in the standard optomitrist's rack of frames. The glass may or may not be the same, but the frames are a damn sure major difference.

For shooting I would invest in good safety eyeglasses, for reloading I wouldn't be concerned.

Appreciate the info guys.

In ref. to those side shields that Wallyworld carries, are they available in the prescription eye glasses center, or another department.

Thanks,

YB

yankee

Do what I did. Find an optomertrist/doctor who is also a shooter and handloader and have him do all your exams and eyeglasses work. He will know and understand what you need better than anyone else. JMHO

Ray