Shooting with Eye-Protection
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Hi all,
Just curious, has anyone shot with eye-protection (ie. Shades, Ballistic Goggles) before? Personally tried 2/3 times with MP5 and once with a Glock 17. Somehow it feels alittle weird. The MP5 which I've used are equipped with a red-dot sight on all occasions, so I feel that its easier to aim, but the Glock had no other sights except its open iron sights. And find that its difficult to get a good sight picture.
Anyone has experience to share?
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I only tried firing Armbrust LAW with plastic spectacles.
almost shattered it. -
Used to wear Oakley Blades while shooting - personally I don't find it made a difference in the results, although obviously it was more comfortable on sunny days.
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Personally, I use ESS Ice. Black lenses for outdoor shootings and Yellow for indoors or low light.
Sight picture for most pistols are not THAT hard to acquire. It all starts with stance and posture. Ur head should remain vertically straightened, not cocked down to acquire the sight. Instead, ur arm should bring the weapon UP into the view of the eye for a consistent sight picture.
Where did u shoot the mp5 and glock at? Singapore Gun club? -
Shooting shades give you better contrast so it makes it easier for aiming.
Aiming and shooting at close quarters with Red Dot sights greatly speeds up sighting and shooting.
US Army is using red dot, reflex , Holo sights on standard issue rifles on a large scale. Just look at pictures of US troops in Iraq - most have these sights. -
Nope. MP5 was during the Army Open Houses at the SOF/CDO booth. Glock was in Thailand.Originally posted by Shotgun:Personally, I use ESS Ice. Black lenses for outdoor shootings and Yellow for indoors or low light.
Sight picture for most pistols are not THAT hard to acquire. It all starts with stance and posture. Ur head should remain vertically straightened, not cocked down to acquire the sight. Instead, ur arm should bring the weapon UP into the view of the eye for a consistent sight picture.
Where did u shoot the mp5 and glock at? Singapore Gun club? -
i think using protection while shoot ur glock need some practice ba
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But anybody has any problems when shooting with eye-protection,especially without the use of aiming/optical aids. What about shooting when wearing a respirator?Does it affect accuracy?
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u mean during chemical defense?Originally posted by SpecOps87:But anybody has any problems when shooting with eye-protection,especially without the use of aiming/optical aids. What about shooting when wearing a respirator?Does it affect accuracy? -
Yah. Be it chemical or bio defense, hostage rescue etc...Originally posted by beavan:u mean during chemical defense? -
Hey, how much did you get your ESS Ice for?Originally posted by Shotgun:Personally, I use ESS Ice. Black lenses for outdoor shootings and Yellow for indoors or low light.
Sight picture for most pistols are not THAT hard to acquire. It all starts with stance and posture. Ur head should remain vertically straightened, not cocked down to acquire the sight. Instead, ur arm should bring the weapon UP into the view of the eye for a consistent sight picture.
Where did u shoot the mp5 and glock at? Singapore Gun club? -
$120 I think. I use it as shades when I'm doing archery as well. But it changes my anchoring a lil.
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mopp4 in range...um..not funny...
tried live range with goggles b4...it depends on how well u noe ure rifle and its tendencies and the restrictions of wearing goggles...there is a way of getting over things once u noe the problems... -
Anything with the mopp4 is not funny.Originally posted by Rockhound:mopp4 in range...um..not funny...
tried live range with goggles b4...it depends on how well u noe ure rifle and its tendencies and the restrictions of wearing goggles...there is a way of getting over things once u noe the problems...
Damn thing so hot
Anyway wad's the diff shooting with eye protection and glasses?
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I think no diff unless u like to cant your head.
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I think with prescription glasses its okay, and so does shooting with shades. But shooting with ballistic goggles I suppose its a different thing, so does shooting with those helmets with visors.Originally posted by |-|05|:Anything with the mopp4 is not funny.
Damn thing so hot
Anyway wad's the diff shooting with eye protection and glasses? -
Is your concern regarding the refraction of light ?
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Yep.Originally posted by Shotgun:Is your concern regarding the refraction of light ? -
Very minimal. Even with Z87+ standard polycarbonate lenses. For my ESS, objects tend to look a lil further and higher... thats all. There isn't a world of difference.
However, I wouldn't use my ESS for archery over 30m cos of nosebridge area. It does affect my aiming. But for Pistols and rifles, i think should be no problem... since the face is more or less straightened, and the foresight and rearsight are also "shifted" together with the target. -
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I wear prescription glasses, and you'd think that they would suffice as eye protection. However, there have been several occasions while shooting pistols with erratic ejection patterns (my Steyr M40 comes to mind) when the spent case would eject straight up, ricochet off the shooting stall crossmember and end up wedged between my eyelid and glasses. This can be somewhat annoying, not to mention painful.
For this reason, I now pack a baseball cap in my range bag. -
Well, I'm glad I had my Oakleys on when I was firing a Glock 17 last week. It was a well-used (read training) weapon, and apart from a lot of IAs, it was also spitting cartridges everywhere:
That cartridge would have smacked me in the eye if I wasn't wearing them Oakleys. Got a mark on my forehead when another cartridge flew right into me. -
Originally posted by Meia Gisborn:
Now thats painful!
I wear prescription glasses, and you'd think that they would suffice as eye protection. However, there have been several occasions while shooting pistols with erratic ejection patterns (my Steyr M40 comes to mind) when the spent case would eject straight up, ricochet off the shooting stall crossmember and end up wedged between my eyelid and glasses. This can be somewhat annoying, not to mention painful.
For this reason, I now pack a baseball cap in my range bag. -
That sort of unpredictability makes shooting fun, doesn't it?Originally posted by Gedanken:Well, I'm glad I had my Oakleys on when I was firing a Glock 17 last week. It was a well-used (read training) weapon, and apart from a lot of IAs, it was also spitting cartridges everywhere:
That cartridge would have smacked me in the eye if I wasn't wearing them Oakleys. Got a mark on my forehead when another cartridge flew right into me.
Does that Glock 17 belong to you? What type of IAs were you experiencing? FTFeed? FTExtract? Most of those types of problems (and the inconsistent ejection pattern) can usually be traced to a worn-out extractor claw. -
*sigh* luckily the repirator that i wore was a different model than the ones supplied to the engineers or the ones used during basic chem def package so still able to shoot, In mopp 4 if can pass fantastic already no need to think abt getting the money. The basic chem def package respirator one how to shoot, kanasai the canister in front of face. But still the one SOF was using to me the best, well thought and well designed