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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: alfsauve on January 24, 2009, 10:56:22 AM
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Did anybody notice on one of those other shows that was covering Creedmoor style matches that the Army dude didn't use eye protection?
I may drop them a note. THAT show doesn't have a forum. But I've gotten responses from them to my email before.
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Jim is very good about personally replying to e-mails. His e-mails also seem to show that he is listening, so I have felt comfortable that he means what he says in them.
I also noticed that problem with no eye protection. It is a bad example to non and new shooters, but we can use it as a teaching tool with our children and friends rather than just dismissing and condeming the show.
I was watching a show on History yesterday morning and was amazed at how many historian collectors and re-enactors were shooting not just regular firearms but flintlocks without eye protection. Not to mention the number of these people that did not wear hearing protection either.
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Is it possible that they were wearing the cheaper all clear safety glasses like we get free at work , that just didn't show up in the video? Hearing protection could be flesh toned ear plugs, or covered by hair (if plugs) but I can not believe that ANY RO/SO would allow a person to shoot with out proper safety equipment in this age of lawsuits. And AMTU ? That is a violation of a specific order that all shooters WILL use proper safety equipment.
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In the scenes I was watching it was very clear that there was no protection.