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This is me and my crew when we reload or go to the range. Note, only Tony in the center has glasses. We are very brave.
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No, never at any stage. I've been reloading for 30 years and not so much as a popped primer. kwg
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I have thick glasses. Does that count?
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Dang, you have as many dies as I do...... I thought I was the only die slut....... Casey
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I've wore eyeglasses for the past 40+ years. So for the 35+ years I've been handloading, I've had glasses on the entire time, and for the last 15-20 years they were polycarbonate or safety glasses.
But I've never popped a primer with my Lee Auto Prime--I took one look at the RCBS set-up that came with my Jr kit, and figured there had to be something better. Consequently, my 38 year old RCBS press mounted primer is still a virgin.......
Casey
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Not being married to any particular political party sure makes it a lot easier to look at the world more objectively... Having said that, MAGA.
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i dont wear safety glasses, and i never have whilst reloading. i have been loading for about 8 years now. mostly for my 30-06, but now into .45 ACP and .357 mag and .38 special, and just starting on .300 win mag.
30-06 till i die, the greatest round ever! I carry a gun because a cop is too heavy! CEO of a Turdlike People: Turds & Tats Division... (per Ingwe )
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Prescription glasses, polycarbonate. If i don't wear them i don't see too much. No side shields. Have had glasses since i was 16 so i am used to wearing them. Have never had anything go bang in all my reloading, but my buddy had a tube of primers go on an industrial machine and that was exciting. Burn mark on the concrete roof, shrapnel all over the place. He was as blind as i am, and had his normal glasses on.
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I wear them for some operations and not for others.I have not always done so,just getting older I guess.My safety glasses have a "bifocal" 1.5x magnifier built into the lower part of the lens. Lightman
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i always wear glasses when reloading, eben before I needed them, its called good practice..........i have never needed them nor have i needed a motorcycle helmet or a life boat or a seat belt and many others. just the way of doing business.
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I've been reloading about 30 years, I've been wearing polycarbonate glasses W/O side shields about 20 of them. The last couple of years, I've been wearing my prescription safety glasses, I'm very far sighted,(trifocals are coming in very handy)it was for the reason you posted this question I was asking about the new auto primers w/safey shields on the fire recently.
Men ocassionaly stumble over the truth from time to time but, most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. - Winston Churchill-
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Don't load a lot, but have done so for 35-ish years. Never wore any safety glasses. No problems thus far.
"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
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OK...
Thanks to all of you that provided reasonable answers.
About 24 hours 'later', here's my tally.
"Yes I wear SAFETY glases" - 6 "Yes I wear glasses for all or some of the reloading operations, and they function as safety glasses" - 4 "No I don't wear safety glasses when reloading even though I do wear glasses as a result of needing them to see, and I didn't wear them before I needed them to see." - 23 Humorous - 9
That doesn't add up to the total number of posts because some of them were irrelevant.
The way I "see" this is:
Of the 33 people that reponded in the spirit in which the question was asked, 10 of them wear glasses overtly as a safety precaution in some or all of their reloading activities, and 23 don't or wouldn't if they didn't need them to see with.
10 divided by 33 is 0.303.... or 30.3% 23 divided by 33 is 0.6969... or 69.7%
Actually, while the overall sample size of 33 is pretty small, I'm a little surpised that as many as 30% of reloaders in this sample CHOOSE to use safety glasses in at least some of the operations of reloading.
Thanks again to those that responded in the spirit in which the question was asked.
Paul
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No safety glasses for me. I wear eyeglasses that serve the same purpose.
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I wear prescription eye glasses. That's all.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke 1795
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So, about 24 hours later (48 hours total) the numbers have only changed by 2. I'll let this run one more 24 hour period, and "stick a fork in it".
Paul
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Not sure where you put me... but I would wear safety glasses if my �reading� glasses did not function as Safety Glasses� I just silly that way
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I put you in the "I wear safety glasses for at least some operations of reloading", because you said:
"but I would wear safety glasses if my �reading� glasses did not function as Safety Glasses"
AND... That's certainly not "silly" to me, and I NEVER suggested that using safety devices IF YOU SO CHOSE, was silly.
Paul
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I have four pairs of bifocal prescription glasses, they are all safety glasses. (If I buy safety glasses, the company pays a good share of the cost.) I wear them for reading and reloading as well as drilling, grinding, and other potentially hazardous duties.
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The only time I wear safety glasses is when I'm deprimeing live primers. How in the heck did you make that arrow float all over your post. LOL I about crapped. I thought I had just flushed $35 on this new cordless laser mouse.
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