Training with glasses

C

Country Boy

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I am one who wears glasses, and I was outdoors the other day doing some manual labor. As I worked up a sweat, some sweat droplets fell onto my glasses, blurring my view. That got me thinking. For those of us who wear glasses and practice shooting with glasses, should we also be training with blurred glasses and training without glasses?

I would not want to be in a gunfight, have my glasses blurred (sweat, water, hydraulic oil, fingerprints, dirt... you get the idea), and not have trained that way before. Things look different. Also, I would not want to be in a gunfight, have my glasses knocked off, and now have to shoot with a fuzzy, unfamiliar sight picture.

I do believe I will be going to my practice sessions at the range and spending some time shooting without my glasses, or perhaps with some vaseline smeared on my glasses, just so I get used to the idea. You fight like you train. So much for the sights, point shoot away! What do you think?
 
Practice some with non corrected safety glasses.

Sam....cop does a double take lookin at my white cane and handicap plate.
 
C.R.Sam has a good idea: practice with non-corrected safety glasses.

You need to wear glasses when you shoot -- for safety's sake.

(You probably won't have hearing protection if the balloon ever goes up, but that doesn't mean you should practice without ear protection, either...)
 
Being a lifelong geek with glasses (four eyes to you old timers), I practiced M.A. with and without glasses because the first violent physical encounter? Your glasses are the first thing to hit the floor.

I only recently took up handgun training (gunfoo) because I started understanding 1) I was getting too old for that other stuff...especially when the BG's like to start something with multiple BG's and 2) they are packing heat, too.

So I stick a pair of non-prescription safety glasses on, I try to go when the range is empty, and I warn the rangemaster..."Blind Man Shooting!"
I'm deadly with anything within contact range without my prescription glasses.

So the deal is "Practice! Practice! Practice!" Good luck. :D :D
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Walt Sherrill:
C.R.Sam has a good idea: practice with non-corrected safety glasses.

You need to wear glasses when you shoot -- for safety's sake.

(You probably won't have hearing protection if the balloon ever goes up, but that doesn't mean you should practice without ear protection, either...) [/quote]

So true. Last Saturday while I was shooting my new Ruger P97, some a$$hole brought an untimed .44 magnum revolver. He was shooting full powered magnum loads (the noise and vibration gave that off). To make a long story short, it spit something (possibly a small piece of lead at me) and got me in the jaw. Got me good enough to enter my cheek (slightly) and cause minor bleeding. I had to go to the bathroom and dig the piece out with a pocket knife. Now for my point, if I wasn't wearing glasses and it hit my eye I could have lost my
eye(s).

Oh...and I reported the problem to the rangemaster (he didn't do anything about it). At least one other person mentioned getting hit (in the arm), but not as severely as I did.
 
Until you save enough $$$ for the surgery I would train exactly how you suggested. Studies show that we behave the exact same way we train on the range. Be aware of everything that you do because one bad habit can cost you your life. Also some ideas...Practice drawing with your off hand, loading mags in low light or the dark (since the majority of gun fights are in low light situations), practice firing with your offhand, and practice using one hand (strong hand and weak hand) only to load, rack, clear jams, and fire from behind cover. Don't rely on your strong hand all the time since it can get shot and disabled in a gunfight. Just some ideas to shoot around. Good luck.
 
Suggest USPSA matches (IPSC for non-US) to learn gun handling (and having fun fun fun).

Forget the common wisdom; the confidence from improving at competition is worth the time invested.

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"All my ammo is factory ammo"
 
I have friends who have had the surgery and are REALLY happy with the outcome. My father had the surgery, it didn't go well, and he had to have three more surgeries.
It's a big pain to shoot in my glasses, but I don't want any more surgery.

Will
 
I'm farsighted, so the surgery isn't an option for me. Without my glasses, I can't see close up which translates to a real lousy sight picture for anything outside of point and shoot range. However, I can see a laser dot. Therefore, my glock has a lasermax. I use it as a secondary sight system, but if I was without glasses I would probably use it as a primary system (assuming all shots will occur pretty rapidly).
 
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