Safety Glasses

[paleoman]

#2736

I shot a few this a.m. and ended up w a dry fire basically due to the knock flying off. My previous shot hit that arrow, but w no visible damage. Got me thinking due to the “Safety Culture” we seem to live in now about eye protection…have any of you had any close calls with your eyes? I just can’ t do it myself (wear safety glasses w a bow) but not for any logical reason not to. Maybe once or twice as a kid I had something similar happen.

[BuckyT]

#12404

Never thought about it. I could never wear any sort of glasses shooting a bow.

[Stephen Graf]

#12561

I wish I didn’t have to wear glasses while shooting a bow. I really don’t need to where them, except for that pesky problem of seeing the target 😳

[paleoman]

#12616

I misspelled nock up there….:P Anyway I would feel like a complete boob wearing safety glasses shooting a bow but wonder if there are some who “put their eye out” over the years? Particularly w wood shafts maybe??

[Arne Moe]

#12666

There are some programs out there that require safety glasses (4H for one) but I don’t see the need. I wear prescription glasses out of need but really don’t see the need for eye protection. I’m sure someone out there will have a “war story” about that. Wood, aluminum, carbon I have never seen an example to indicate a need.

That said, using them CAN’T hurt either.

Arne

[Ralph]

#13424

I think your more apt to run into a low hanging branch when hunting or stumping and poking an eye rather than when shooting a bow. Saying that, I’ve seen pics of some pretty nasty blows as a result of stringing and unstringing bows that safety glasses might have helped with the damage control or maybe added to the injury:?. But more so a football helmet would have been better.

I think keeping an eye 🙂 on your equipment to make sure it’s up to par is a really good preventative measure.

[William Warren]

#13786

Steve Graf wrote: I wish I didn’t have to wear glasses while shooting a bow. I really don’t need to where them, except for that pesky problem of seeing the target 😳

Ah, so next time we go carp shooting if I could hide your glasses I would have a chance of out shooting you? 😀

[William Warren]

#13796

This reminds me of when my son got his eardrum pierced by the pointy bud casing of a maple limb that popped him in the ear as he was going through some brush. May need to wear ear plugs too.

[Charles Ek]

#13832

R2 wrote: I think your more apt to run into a low hanging branch when hunting or stumping and poking an eye rather than when shooting a bow.

On two separate occasions, I’ve had to lead someone out of the woods by the hand as a result of them getting poked in the eye. On another occasion, my niece took a twig in the eye that required three surgeries at the Mayo Clinic to save the eye and her sight in it.

If you don’t wear a brimmed hat and some sort of eye protection in the woods, you’re rolling the dice every time you go out. JMHO.

[James Harvey]

#14143

I like to think when I’m hunting I’m generally cautious enough to not stab myself in the eye. That being said it has happened, though nothing more than a few tears. Long grass is a serial offender, against the backdrop of an ocean of grass I don’t see the bent down blades trying to poke me in the eye 🙁

[Stephen Graf]

#14332

Duncan wrote: [quote=Steve Graf]I wish I didn’t have to wear glasses while shooting a bow. I really don’t need to where them, except for that pesky problem of seeing the target 😳

Ah, so next time we go carp shooting if I could hide your glasses I would have a chance of out shooting you? 😀

Lets go!…, If by outshooting you mean shooting more arrows out of the boat and into the mud then me, good luck! killer.

[daniel boon]

#14364

I wear glasses when shooting, and wish I didn’t. And not for safety either. Had to change my anchor point when I started wearing them. They are a pain in the but, but not much choice.

[Ralph]

#14399

Steve Graf wrote: I wish I didn’t have to wear glasses while shooting a bow. I really don’t need to where them, except for that pesky problem of seeing the target 😳

Got a friend that’s always mumbling about his glasses being in the way, pulling his arrows in 3D shoot, 8, 10 ,10 ,8, 8, 10…………… Such a problem he has. 😀

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