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I'm just curious how many of the Flintlock shooters' here wear eye protection when practicing or testing or whatever?
I see folks doing it pretty regularly, mostly on the internet, which amazes me, personally.
Even the mildest suggestion about eye protection is seldom, if ever, well received so I usually keep my comment to myself. Usually.
As for me, I only have one eye. I'm pretty protective of it, so eye protection is a must. These days I need glasses to see well anyway, but even when I started with Flintlocks 38 years ago, I was religious about eye protection. Even had a pair of shooting glasses made with no prescription, clear lens for hunting!
I'm anal I know.
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Not anal at all.
But I generally shoot flinters with no eye protection, makes no sense I know, 'cept maybe at reenactments.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
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I've been shooting flintlocks since long before they were common or popular, never an injury or discomfort. Luck? I can't say the same for caplock, where I always wear eye protection.
Well this is a fine pickle we're in, should'a listened to Joe McCarthy and George Orwell I guess.
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Amendment..beware those saw cut stones they sold a few years ago.
Well this is a fine pickle we're in, should'a listened to Joe McCarthy and George Orwell I guess.
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I wear prescription glasses.
Safety lens, so side shields.
Since a little type.
So yes/no/maybe.
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
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focus on yoiur own method and don't be a Karen
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focus on yoiur own method and don't be a Karen Thank you, Karen, for the sage advice..... 
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i always wear ear protection and eye protection. all my flintlocks have Chambers locks and they all spark like crazy especially with Null B in the pan.
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I don't shoot flintlocks without eye glasses. Afraid of tiny flakes of flint in my eye. I have period correct bi-focals for historic events.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke 1795
"Give me liberty or give me death"
Patrick Henry 1775
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I've been shooting flintlocks since long before they were common or popular, never an injury or discomfort. Luck? I can't say the same for caplock, where I always wear eye protection. This!!! Never an issue with a flintlock
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Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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