Shooting Glasses / Sun Glasses / Duty Sun Glasses

[Tamara]

Fortunately, /I don't have any duties, so I don't need duty sunglasses. The sunglasses I pick only need to stand up to the rigors of being carried on a palanquin to and from my chauffeured car to and from the range. Since I'm too lazy to change into shooting glasses at the range, they need to be ballistic rated, and since I'm too lazy to order one of my bearers to pick them up if they fall from my head while I'm in the palanquin, they need to not fall off my head. Also, I want the lenses to be mirrored in an icy, cold, heartless blue to match my eyes.

So far, a pair of Wiley-X AirRage sunglasses has managed to hold this job for the last four years without being lost or broken.

[Dagga Boy]

I guess I will be keeping my gas cans! Thanks for the info.

Gas Cans are my normal daily wear and I am going to try to get some prescription lens put in a set.

Fortunately, /I don't have any duties, so I don't need duty sunglasses. The sunglasses I pick only need to stand up to the rigors of being carried on a palanquin to and from my chauffeured car to and from the range. Since I'm too lazy to change into shooting glasses at the range, they need to be ballistic rated, and since I'm too lazy to order one of my bearers to pick them up if they fall from my head while I'm in the palanquin, they need to not fall off my head. Also, I want the lenses to be mirrored in an icy, cold, heartless blue to match my eyes.

So far, a pair of Wiley-X AirRage sunglasses has managed to hold this job for the last four years without being lost or broken.

As a sophisticate of the firearms community, I like how you roll.

[jetfire]

I've been rocking a pair of Under Armour Reliance Tactical eyepro on and off duty for about a year and a half now. They just now finally picked up a scratch on the lens when an errant .223 case slammed 'em from point blank range. Whoopsie doodle.

Plus they look cool, and I'm not wearing Oakleys like everyone else at the job.

https://www.underarmour.com/en-us/ua...ses/pid1245312

[vcdgrips]

I have used to be a dyed in the wool Oakley guy with the original M series. They saved me from a serious eye injury due to an ammo double charge at Gunsite in 2007. I have since moved on to the ESS Cross Bow series. The 2x set allows me to keep both a clear and shade sets ready to go without having to swap out lenses. Their ear pieces ( both standard and thin) play well with my hearing protection (OD Green Howard Leights).

Note, as mentioned above, ESS is owned by Oakley. The ESS Cross Bow series is avail at a sig LEO/GOVT/MIL discount and passed ANSI Z87.1 and MIL-PRF-31013 clause 3.5.1.1 unlike some early model Oakleys to include my Original M-Series. Indeed, if it were me and I was buying anew, if it were not on the Army appoved list, I would keep walking unless my mission precluded the look and I guess the above stds would have to be enough. I would avoid anything made in China re my eyepro i.e. the UA stuff described above ( made in China as per the Amazon website)
https://www.amazon.com/Under-Armour-.../dp/B00C4RN4C8


Army Approved List
http://www.peosoldier.army.mil/equipment/eyewear/

[Hot Sauce]

The second was my last day on the job. I took a fist loaded crescent wrench with the tines open directly into the left eye. The Oakley glasses were destroyed (Oakley said the force was greater than getting hit with a steel ball at 120 mph to do the damage that was done to the lenses.) and I had significant damage to my orbital area and inside my nose, but my eye is intact with no issues other than losing my binocular version.

Holy hell.

[Chuck Whitlock]

So far, a pair of Wiley-X AirRage sunglasses has managed to hold this job for the last four years without being lost or broken.

The AirRage sunglasses fit me better than most of the others I've tried. I currently wear the black pair on duty, and the silver flash ones off duty.

Several years ago, I was wearing a pair of AirRages when a suspect punched me in the side of the head about three times during an arrest. That arm broke at the mount hole for the T-stud lanyard 2-3 years after the incident.

I have a set of ESS glasses with 2-3 lens sets in my range bag, but haven't used them a lot.

[voodoo_man]

So another niche requirement is that if I put them up on top of my head they stay there...I've considered a neck band but not for duty.

[Hot Sauce]

So another niche requirement is that if I put them up on top of my head they stay there...I've considered a neck band but not for duty.

Stay there while roughhousing or what?

[voodoo_man]

Stay there while roughhousing or what?

I mean if they do that cool but just normally

[Hot Sauce]

I mean if they do that cool but just normally

Sounds like pretty much any flexible frame with a close fit and rubber nose pieces will do, in that case.