Do you think your gogs are safe

[Beemer]

Ok this is just to get an idea of what ya all think.

12ft is ABOUT 5 steps for a 6ft tall person.
Speed will equal 300fps
ROF will equal 15bps

[soccer4minimags]

whose to say all those shots will hit you in the lense. 12ft is a lot of room for error, some will hit your mask, some the lense, I bet some would even miss your head all together.
I would sure hope our masks could take a hit like that though.

[Beemer]

all direct hits

I mean all direct hits on the lense some where

[soccer4minimags]

One other thing to consider in that may be that is it fifteen shots fired consecutively, like one at a time, or is this mask we're talking about catching a string of 15 or 20 bps.
I would think one at a time for sure, but a string I'm not to sure of. My thinking onthis is that they would hit so close together the lense would not be finished absorbing and distributing the impact of the previous hits before the others hit.
Anybody know a real answer on this.

[OfficerGoat]

How often do we take Gog hits? Pretty freaquently I would think. I have had my original spectra since 96 and it has never ever failed me including in some tough spots. No the lense is not that old... I am pretty methodical about changing lenses every year... but still I have never had one that looked like it even wanted to think about failing on me. Some of those lenses proboly took better than 100 shots and never even cracked. Now sticking BE stuff on my face... I'm not so sure I would be as confedent.

[IWANTMOREMAGS]

These masks are safe. Even if you get hit in the lense. Think about it. Lenses have 2 layers of plastic on them(right?). They are also curved, making them even harder to bend. The lense will bend when it isn't held in place. The mask itself holds the lense and it isn't gonna break very Easily.

[soccer4minimags]

One thing I always find interesting on gogle hits is when you get a new lense with any sort or color or tint to it and you take a hit and it makes that circular patern in the tint.
Speaking of caring for goggles, I seem to take care of mine pretty well. I never let paint sit on them, I clean paint out of the gutter, I replace at the littlest sign of a crack or when they get to many scratches. I always wonder about the strenght of my goggles.
Is it still safe to use a JT spectra thermal if say the thermal layer peels off. Just wondering I've had this happen more than once.
I've known some guys (and this is just plain crazy I wouldn't play with this lense) who didn't lke the tint on their spectras anymore so they found cleaners that would actually disolve the stuff off. that should be a warning sign right there, if it eats the stuff off your lense you shouldn't put it on your lense.

[Jonesie]

I think I remember seeing where someone had shot a .22 into a mask (JT, I think) and while the bullet did penetrate the lense, it wasn't allowed to pass all the way thru, stopping it before it would have reached the face. Those things are stronger than you think, for a little piece of plastic.

[MayAMonkeyBeYourPinata]

Not afraid, of my lense breaking, but I have caught one on the lip with my proteus.

[sneakyhacker420]

when the foam seal around the thermal layer of my old JT lense broke and it started fogging up, i got a new lense for it, and me and my friend decided to have some fun in his back yard, we propped my old lense against a rock in his back yard, me, branishing my e-mag, and him, armed with a e-blade orracle... we just lit it up from 20 feet away at the max

only thing that happened was the rock and lens were drenched in paint and there were some scratches from the shell scraping against it... but it held up damn fine for a $15 peice of plastic


i feel safe with my mask... never had a concern about it... and if somthing DID happen, i'd get a good 7 figure sum of cash from the company


...:o

[wobbles82]

I second that, I believe it was an Automag a Timmy and an Impulse on an Old Mask...execution style...no problems, I feel safe. If ANYTHING somehow went crazy, youd have an extra layer...and I dunno you would probably be fine. Ive been shot inside my mask walking off the field, none in the eye, but it was nothing really.

[DyNasTy]

hey

Well the reasons this WOULD not happen is because.

think about when u get bunkered or gogged.

Bunkering the player is moving past u, so u would recieve about 5 to the noe part of the mask and the other 10 down ur back etc.

gogged, u react to the first shot and start to move once uve been gogged, so it is almost impossible for u to recieve 15 consecutive shots. Even at 15-20 bps, the first 3-4 shots that hit u, u usually get up to turn or look away or cover or something and the rest miss or hit u else where.

I dont think ive ever witnnessed or hear of someone benig shot 15 times in teh mask. so dont expect it likely to happen even now.

[Bad_Dog]

my goggles have survived many a impact from close range, along with other stuff like running into trees, walls, barrels, old milk trucks that appear out of nowhere (true story) and I have full confidence that they'll always work fine.

I think I remember seeing where someone had shot a .22 into a mask (JT, I think) and while the bullet did penetrate the lense, it wasn't allowed to pass all the way thru, stopping it before it would have reached the face. Those things are stronger than you think, for a little piece of plastic.

I've shot my old pair with my .22 long, it went right through not even a chance of it stopping the bullet. That person must have been useing a .22 short, or powderless shells...

[deathstalker]

I'd be willing to put mine to the test. I change my lens around March of each year no matter what(I usually take off most of the winter). I then replace it during the year if there are any indications it is no longer sound.

I put my current lens on at Shatnerball, played about six times with it, and you can bet I've got its replacement ready to be put on in two months.

[DiSoRdeR]

My Flex is safe as it can possible be. Those are the only hits that I get, head shots guess I need to work on that lol, If my Flex was not safe I wouldnt be here today with all those head shots I take