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Any person who is involved in shooting sports should wear
protective eyewear. They will sharpen your vision, provide safety from tree
branches, stray bullets, or clay particles, and enhance your overall
performance. Here is what to look for:
Lens Material:
Because of the danger of branches, stray bullets, and clay
fragments (in clay shooting), eyewear should be worn at all times to
protect your eyes from injury. Polycarbonate is the only material
that can actually deflect bullets shot directly at it. Therefore, it
the lens material of choice. However, polycarbonate scratches more
easily than any other material. Thus, if glass must be used, make
sure it is at least 3.00mm thick in the center of the lens to
provide adequate protection against stray bullets.
Lens Color:
In low light conditions, such as early morning or overcast days,
either a clear lens or a lens with a super anti-reflective coating
(AR), or yellow contrast enhancing lens is recommended. An AR
coating allows 99% of the light through the lens, where a standard
lens only lets 92% of the light through. The rest of the light is
reflected. The reflected light can scare animals, and send them
running. The AR coat absorbs these reflections to help keep you
hidden. A yellow contrast enhancing lens will absorb blue light,
found in overcast days. This will help make objects against this
color background appear brighter, to help you better distinguish an
animal in a bush. For sporting clays and skeet or trap shooting, the
most popular tint is a light medium target orange (LMTO). This tint
is used under bright light conditions, and lessens the amount of
light to your eye to enhance target recognition
Frame Style:
Most standard sunglass or glass frames sit too low on the face.
Therefore, when you put your head down to look through the stock of
your gun, your eyes catch the upper rim of the frame, and can be
distracting. Therefore, a frame that sits high on the face is
recommended. Oversize frames are popular for this reason.
Prescription Lenses:
If you have a prescription, the prescription should be ground
into the shooting glasses with the optical centers placed lower to
accommodate the above problem. Most frame styles can be fit with a
prescription lens, and most can be tinted with the above mentioned
colors.
Recommended Styles:
Wiley-X
makes various frames and lenses for all types of shooting sports and styles are
available with a prescription adapter. Serengeti
makes a nice shooting lens
with a contrast enhancing rose tint. Lenses are for low light conditions (i.e.
early morning/evening, overcast days, etc.) and styles are available with
prescription. Rec-Specs has the Marksman
comes in a prescription only version that comes with a set of clip on for
various lighting conditions. Or, get yellow clip ons for your regular
prescription glasses on our accessories page.
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Look
For -Lens
Material
-Lens Color
-Frame Style
-Prescription Capability
Recommended Styles
-Rec-Specs
-Serengeti
-Wiley-X
Clip-Ons
Prescription Information
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are available with a
prescription lens. 
