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Old 02-06-2017, 6:52pm   #1
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That's awesome!
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No eye protection in an advert for eye care?
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That was cool, reminds me of the happy face shooting in Lethal Weapon
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It's a bolt action rifle...is there a need?

Honestly asking, I thought flying brass was about the only reason to wear eye protection at the range.
That's the primary reason. Other things can happen like the weapon blowing up.
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That's the primary reason. Other things can happen like the weapon blowing up.
If that happens, all most eyewear will do is to add to the debris in your face.
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If that happens, all most eyewear will do is to add to the debris in your face.
Yeap. But tell that to the insurance companies.
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It's a bolt action rifle...is there a need?

Honestly asking, I thought flying brass was about the only reason to wear eye protection at the range.
Honestly answering, most if not all public ranges require eye and ear protection. Even though this looks to
be a European range, hard to believe even they would want a liability action for not requiring safety precautions...
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It's a bolt action rifle...is there a need?

Honestly asking, I thought flying brass was about the only reason to wear eye protection at the range.
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That's the primary reason. Other things can happen like the weapon blowing up.
Something as simple as the firing pin piercing the primer can release extremely hot and high pressure gases thru or around the bolt.

That's just one possibility.
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Even simpler in an indoor range is having a hot case from the shooter in the next lane ricochet off the lane divider into your eye, ear or down your shirt. Murphy lives, so I wear real safety glasses and double ear protection at the range. I have even seen projectiles from "cowboy" loads bounce off the rubber sheeting 25 yards downrange and hit people in the knees and chest. Only bruises both times, but anything you can imagine can; and at some time will; happen.
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That's the primary reason. Other things can happen like the weapon blowing up.
You need to wear eye protection. I had a co-worker forced into early retirement because of debris that flew back from a ricochet and lodged in their eye. I've never had a gun blow up, but I've had fragments ricochet back several times. One drew blood on my cheek. They're your only set of eyes. Protect them.
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You need to wear eye protection. I had a co-worker forced into early retirement because of debris that flew back from a ricochet and lodged in their eye. I've never had a gun blow up, but I've had fragments ricochet back several times. One drew blood on my cheek. They're your only set of eyes. Protect them.
Marty, the tool salesman who comes to where I work. said this to me after seeing a guy working at a manual milling machine with no eye protection

You can walk with a wooden leg but can't see with a glass eye.
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That's the primary reason. Other things can happen like the weapon blowing up.
Or target shrapnel ricochet.
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You need to wear eye protection. I had a co-worker forced into early retirement because of debris that flew back from a ricochet and lodged in their eye. I've never had a gun blow up, but I've had fragments ricochet back several times. One drew blood on my cheek. They're your only set of eyes. Protect them.
Always do.
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Decades ago a buddy and I used to go shooting in a old cinderblock/concrete dairy barn, WAY the hell out River Road, paralleling the Potomac river, damn nearly W. VA.......near a then full tilt coal fired power plant, owned by the local utility ......

So we be inside using all sorts of old hay bales and assorted crap behind the targets, and of course.....

TWICE, there was left over bullet copper jackets come bouncing down the length of our 'range'.....along the wall on the left.....hummmmmm.......
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