Best quality shooting glasses for clarity?

[DngBat7]

Reading through some threads, I realized my 4 dollar Home Depot safety glasses may defeat the purpose of spending on what I have spent for my high end scopes. Duh moment. So what’s out there as far as superior clarity in safety rated shooting glasses? I found many people recommend Decot hi-lo rx glasses, but nobody commented on clarity.


TIA

 

[STORM2]

Buy your safety glasses as if you need them. I buy polycarbonate safety glasses mostly for edging, trimming, bench rotating tools and other eye risk activities. Last year I had cataract surgery which took my Rx glasses out of the shooting, they are no longer needed. I need to force myself to wear the safety glasses for shooting….which brings me to my opening remark. A week or so ago while trimming the sides of the gravel (crushed concrete) road at the range my trimmer threw a fair sized piece of rock dead center of my left polycarbonate lens. At that split second I remembered the moment I pushed the buy button on the better quality glasses. The goggles are really better but we all make compromises.

I have a sermon on hearing protection also….chain saw tossed small piece of wood in my ear about a year ago. It resulted in an ear infection that took a month to heal. Fifty cent plugs would have prevented the event! Chainsaws and string trimmers also require us to use the safety equipment so we can keep shooting.

 

[1911nut]

I use my prescription plastic lenses for shooting, for clarity and protection.

I use one of these for trimming after a couple rocks in the face.
Hearing protection but Probably not that good for shootin

 

[pikespeakgoat]

I don't wear prescription glasses.....having said that, I have a really bad problem with safety glasses that produce even the slightest amount of distortion, I get super dizzy.

I wear sun/safety glasses constantly and ESS and Oakley are about the only ones I can wear without ill effects, fwiw.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Leave the decots in the 1950s and get some pilla glasses

 

[DngBat7]

Leave the decots in the 1950s and get some pilla glasses

Thanks for the confirmation. Just discovered their website

 

[Amp-rat]

I purchased these recently. Available with or without prescription lenses. Optical clarity is just about perfect, no distortion at all.

SHOOTING EYEWEAR

Find shooting eye protection glasses with interchangeable frames. Perfect for hunting, trap, skeet, and duck hunting sunglasses. Stay safe & see clearly!

www.reranger.com

 

[uncle fester]

I use inexpensive glasses for yard work. For shooting, I have nice Oakley glasses with clear lenses.

 

[DngBat7]

Well, to recap. I did want to post that I followed Dusty’s advise and got the Pillas. Coincidentally, the company was close enough to me I was able to go there in person and check out the glasses and lenses. My theory was correct. I am an idiot. Went to the range and tried on the Home Depot rigid brand safety glasses I have been using, then switched to the Zeiss lenses on the Pilla, looked through my March HM, And now I understand how much clarity I have being robbed of. There was no point to having the scope I have without equal quality glasses. Brain dead moment I guess.

 

[6BRA]

Can you elaborate on what you got? Rx? Which model? Color? Looking myself, thx

 

[DngBat7]

Can you elaborate on what you got? Rx? Which model? Color? Looking myself, thx

They all have zeiss lenses. All the same quality. Non Rx. I got the 70 pwc lenses. Felt they were very natural looking through them. I would have to look up the model frames I got. I did not get the outlaws even tho they are the most popular

Lenses

For over 30 years, Pilla has provided the very best in shooting sports eyewear and is exclusively partnered with ZEISS for our design engineering. All of our products are certified as optically perfect. More professional shooting champions use Pilla as part of their competitive gear than all...

pillasport.com

 

[lp6]

Leave the decots in the 1950s and get some pilla glasses

Decots are retro cool (like Buddy Holly horned rimmed glasses) . And good optical quality.

 

[AccelR8]

Decots. Never heard of them. But after searching the interwebs I have found that I need a pair! They would befit my...stature?

For years I had a pair of Bausch & Lomb RayBan Ambermatic shooting glasses. They were great. I was very happy with them. Then one day they went missing. After about six months of not finding them one day I went out to the mailbox and there on the gravel shoulder of the road was a flattened and tore up tan RayBan case. Squashed completely flat. I picked it up and looked inside. It contained a a destroyed B&L RayBan shooting glasses frame (you can tell by the circular bridge) and finely pulverized amber glass granules.

Seems like when I buy expensive sunglasses or shooting glasses they either disappear or break. I get cheap stuff for free and it lasts forever. Funny how that works.

 

[Jager]

Fascinating thread. Never heard of Pillas. Looks like they're marketed primarily to the trap and clay pigeon community.

Anyone have experience with them in Benchrest or F-Class? Would be interesting to know how they perform behind a scope, and how they see mirage.

 

[DiffEQ]

+1 to Ray-Bans, though mine are Rx now.

 

[DngBat7]

Fascinating thread. Never heard of Pillas. Looks like they're marketed primarily to the trap and clay pigeon community.

Anyone have experience with them in Benchrest or F-Class? Would be interesting to know how they perform behind a scope, and how they see mirage.

Using for BR. Can’t comment on mirage yet. Tho I will confess once in a while I take a slap to the nose with my scope. It did protect me from that, because with the nose post they stand off my face a little.

 

[urbanrifleman]

Back in the 1980s we could get Suncloud glass red lenses with the gold foil shield. These would actually INCREASE clarity while acting as sunglasses.

All of these Chinese lenses in sunglasses SUCK. PERIOD. I have Oakleys and I have to remove them to see anything at long range.

 

[wkdickinson]

Reading through some threads, I realized my 4 dollar Home Depot safety glasses may defeat the purpose of spending on what I have spent for my high end scopes. Duh moment. So what’s out there as far as superior clarity in safety rated shooting glasses? I found many people recommend Decot hi-lo rx glasses, but nobody commented on clarity.


TIA

+1 for Decot Hi-Lo Rx ("bronze") for rifle target shooting at least.

 

[lp6]

Bronze is an absolute go to as is vermillion.

 

[Dub]

I use Pillas and am very happy with the clarity and resolution