Paintball Safety Glasses

[Miscue]

I've been shot a few times in safe areas more times than I'd like. What I'd love to see is a safety glasses requirement off the field. You could have Oakley looking wrap-arounds or whatever, and make sure they can withstand a paintball. Maybe stuff like this would not happen as much: http://www.automags.org/forums/showthread.php?t=159758 I would be tickled if the ASTM/insurance required it. Even if it's not a requirement, I would wear it. Although they aren't safety glasses, I keep my sunglasses on - figure it's better than nothing.

[JoshK]

ya....i dont think thats too bad of a idea...but i would hate if you had to buy them...and i wouldnt want to wear a field's if they supplied them, because after awile they would be ery scratched, and I wouldnt be able to work on my gun(if i have to) as efficiently.

[Miscue]

ya....i dont think thats too bad of a idea...but i would hate if you had to buy them...and i wouldnt want to wear a field's if they supplied them, because after awile they would be ery scratched, and I wouldnt be able to work on my gun(if i have to) as efficiently.

Yeah, unfortunately safety is an inconvenience. I figure that regular wrap-around glasses are good enough, but I'd like something better.

Hurm, I wonder if there are Oakley type glasses for firearms - that should do it.

[BD_Paintball]

or they can inforce the rules batter. if you didnt have stupid kids messing with there guns outside the field i dont think they would have a problem. if you see someone with a barrel plug off in the holding area then kick them out and dont ever let them come back. there will always be stupid ppl playing paintball just like the kids who shoot houses and ppl walking down the road. if the owners of fields would be more strict then the problems would go down. if ppl who play at the feild would yell at the stupid kids taking there plugs out then they wont want to come back any more b/c they got yelled at. this would get two things done. show the rest of the people playing that you can not take your plug out for any reason and you will get rid of all the kids who like to break these rules.

[ubooze]

Well, thats a REALLY good idea Miscue. It won't be able to make sure there is not damage at all, but it will provide a decent amount of protection and coverage.

I think thats something fields ought to encourage, but not so much enforce.

Well, here are some of your choices in terms of shooting glasses.

Also, some of the Wiley-X line-up thats supposed to be high velocity protection (HVP).

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[Blennidae]

I think BD_Paintball hit the nail on the head. Its about enforcing the rules. People walking off the field would have to remove their goggles and put on their glasses. If they can't remember to put on a BBD of some type, can they be expected to do this?

[Miscue]

Well, thats a REALLY good idea Miscue. It won't be able to make sure there is not damage at all, but it will provide a decent amount of protection and coverage.

I think thats something fields ought to encourage, but not so much enforce.

Well, here are some of your choices in terms of shooting glasses.

Also, some of the Wiley-X line-up thats supposed to be high velocity protection (HVP).

Modular Classic
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I wish they'd make stuff like this with safety lenses... cuz those firearms glasses don't look so great.

[Beemer]

Its just a bandaid

So ask me why I have 3 pair of Oakleys. 1 for driving 1 for skiing and 1 for the stageing area

Unless you have a good seal around the eye like gogs you are still at risk because the ball can get under the lens, but like you said its better then nothing. There has been times I just put the gogs back on.

What we really need is safety classes or something like a Foid card, so people will be safe with out all the bandaids.

How many people really make there gun safe when they leave the hot zone???????
Empty breech, turn off air put on safety, put on cover.

I bet 9 out of 10 only get 1 of those and just a cover dont cut it. Pretty dangerous huh

After .Gov has to step in things will change

People just dont get it untill tragedy strikes.


Oh ya the ASTM paintball subcommittee is meeting this month in DC
They cant follow the gun standards they have now, so where does that leave us?

[Target Practice]

Personally, I wear my wrap-arounds (which are prescription) when I'm working out at the field. If we have a group of new or young players, I just keep my mask on. Oddly enough, it's the stupid local tourney kids who are the ones that dick around and create the most potential for accidents.

[TMAXXKING1]

here is an idea

all guns should have quick disconnects that have tanks . without a standerd screw in... and the line should not be conected until the person with the marker goes onto the feild ... if it is a standerd screw in tank the tank should not be on the marker if it is not on the feild .... just an idea ..

and i think it should be a standerd practice ... in every feild

that would be a cheap way out also ... no gear for the people to buy other then a maybe 10 buck part if the own a fixed tank that wont com off the marker ...

[slade]

how about... people just arent idiots?? 3 levels of safety is enough: barrel condom, safety or switch, and not pointing the gun at people with your finger on the trigger. i do all three, and have never fired a shot outside of the field or chrono. refs also need to inspect the barrel condoms on the rentals, because that accident happened because the kid only used 1 of those three levels, and the condom was defective. at first i thought that wearing glasses off field was a pretty good idea, but there is the problem that will occur if it becomes widespread. kids will start thinking that if it is good enough to protect your eyes from a paintball off field, then it should be on field. they may start playing with just glasses instead of masks.

[shatter_storm]

Why not just make a requirement to degas your marker when not on the field? Markers without air can't shoot, it'll provide an additional level of safety beyond what a barrel condom/plug can. I'm sure someone can come up with a twist-knob adapter for air lines that can stop the flow of air. Put them on rentals and require people to turn the marker off then clear the valve/lines/breech before putting barrel condoms/plugs in.

Of course, both ideas presented would be nice, but no field owner will ever follow them. They simply cost too much - another fitting to buy for each rental marker, another thing to go wrong when they break. Glasses have their own set of problems - they cost money, get in the way for those of us that wear glasses on the field, and they probably don't provide enough protection to make them worthwhile in the first place.


What really needs to happen is to have people start treating paintball markers like firearms. Unless they're in pieces, always treat them as if they were loaded. Never touch the trigger for any reason, always have the safety on, always turn off electros, etc. It won't happen since people don't care that much about safety, but it would be nice.

[LeatherPants]

What I thinkg fields should start doing is making On/Offs mandatory. Besides a barrel sock all markers must degas before exiting the fields.

No air no balls flying. But again it must be enforced and air must be completely out of the marker.

[Tyger]

When the NPPL went to barrel socks only, a lot of players didn't HAVE them. So they were allowed to removet eh barrel from their paintgun. Problem is that I can still launch a paintball from the gun without a barrel. If you requuire I remove the tank, I might still have air in the system depending on the paintgun. Not to mention the players who won't want to remove the tank after EVERY game. And if you make on/off valves manditory, be prepared to shell out money to make my gun legal. I don't OWN an on-off valve for my HPA tanks. And what abot my stock class Phantom? There's no on/off for a 12 gram!

Making people use specific gear is not the answer. The answer is knowledge. We as a community need to admit outright that paintball is a DANGEROUS sport! This isn't baseball people, we're launching a DANGEROUS projectile at each other. The gear we use keeps us safe, but too many players don't even care for their gear enough to handle it as if it were dangerous. (X-reference people throwing guns / air tanks on the ground, lighting each other up from 5 feet away....)

Education in an answer. Either that or we need a larger body to drop a train on our heads to make all the players painfully aware of how dangerous the game really can be. I don't have much faith in our ability to self regulate. So far it's worked when we had a small "society" of players. Now that the explosion is upon us... If you can't go to a field and rattle off everyone's name, you can't self-regulate your field (if you get what I mean).

-Tyger

[WenULiVeUdiE]

Part of the problem is field owners dont have the money to repair tattered netting and other saftey problems. And I'm sure they dont have the money to buy a few hundred pairs of saftey googles. One more thing, kids will start wearing them while playing. It would be almost as bad as when paintball started. So when a kid gets shot in the face with only the googles on, there's a big problem.

I think it would be great to see. But we shouldnt even need them. If everyone took the correct precations in the staging area, we wouldnt need all this fuss. I'm not sure about most of you, but when I see a saftey problem, I let the field owner or ref or player know.

Edit- Another saftey problem is the lay out of some outdoor fields. The one I have been going to lately, our car has been hit by stray paintballs, and the nearest field is 100-125 feet away. Plus, it must go over netting. That also presents a problem.