Revision Eyewear Sawfly Tactical Eyewear

Revision Eyewear have developed an impressive protective eyewear lens designed for combat. This video shows the Sawfly being shot by a 12 gauge Remington 1187 shotgun firing #6 lead shot from 16 feet:

It is hit 37 times (what they say, I did not count) by the 0.11 caliber lead shot traveling at over 1300 fps. Very impressive!

I don’t shoot birds and so I do not use steel shot, just lead for plinking, but I think high end ballistics glasses like these should be used when shooting steel shot. Unlike lead, steel is hard and can bounce. Last year a friend of my brother lost one of his eyes when he was out duck shooting with his father. The guys father negligently discharged his shotgun into the ground and one of the steel shot bounced back and hit the son.

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The Revision Eyewear Sawfly costs between $89 and $169.

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Steve Feb 3rd 2009 military, shotguns Tags: , , , 4 Comments

4 Responses to “Revision Eyewear Sawfly Tactical Eyewear”

  1. Fredon 03 Feb 2009 at 1:45 am link comment

    I’ve gotten lead bouncing back pretty regularly with bowling pins and 7 1/2 shot out of the 12 gauge. I don’t know how many times they’ve bounced off those nice Wiley X’s Uncle Sam gave me.

    Now if the just didn’t fog up so much….

  2. Steveon 03 Feb 2009 at 1:57 am link comment

    Fred, really! what range do you shoot the pins at?

  3. Fredon 03 Feb 2009 at 6:42 am link comment

    Around 25 yards. It’s only with the lightweight shot that you get ricochets like that, but they’ve still got enough left in them to really smart if they hit bare skin.

  4. Ride Faston 03 Feb 2009 at 10:27 am link comment

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