Teeth shot out

[two_zero]

Owner at my local had his front tooth cracked by bb

Getting shot under 6ft at Epsom right on the jaw line on the extreme edge of the full face mask tells me I will continue with better safe than sorry approach.

Still looking for better comfort but I want to keep my ugly but intact looks for now

would have to be a right idiot to play at Epsom without face protection!!

 

[Hibernator]

When I first started playing I loved the fact I could just wear shooting glasses, having moved across from paintball and annoying masks!

Then one game a mate had his front tooth shot out and it cost a few hundred quid for a crown. Shortly after I had a bb bounce off my front tooth - luckily doing no damage. I've worn face protection ever since. It's not as comfy and doesn't look as tacticool as shooting glasses, but saves me from a big bill and more pain

 

[AirsoftgoesAli]

I also need an opinion on if lower face and shooting glasses are a safe combination or not?

 

[Sacarathe]

I also need an opinion on if lower face and shooting glasses are a safe combination or not?

How long is a piece of string?

Lots of people report having vertical [power mask] ricochets, do the glasses you wish to wear have any gaps or don't they?

Try it and find out, i'm sure it will be safe until it's not.

 

[K@rl]

I also need an opinion on if lower face and shooting glasses are a safe combination or not?

It will depend on what kind of game play. Cqb or woodland?

 

[AirsoftgoesAli]

Woodland and there is a gap in the bottom of the glasses

 

[Zak Da Mack]

Yes I was mate, i was wearing dark blue waterproof trousers with green tape on my legs. Was NATO all morning then defected to the Russians in the afternoon to help them out

Are you the one who charged on the dune & took out the nest ?? & did you recognize me ??

Yes I was the one who did the charge But no, I didn't recognize you at all. If I did, I would have come and said hello

 

[n1ckh]

That's ok mate so don't worry but again fairplay for your charge

Are you going back end of this month ??

 

[jcheeseright]

It will depend on what kind of game play. Cqb or woodland?

how is that relevant? you can be shot up close in woodland too, something is either safe or it isn't!

I also need an opinion on if lower face and shooting glasses are a safe combination or not?

Personally, I wouldn't say it's 'unsafe' but the possibility of a ricochet up into your eye is there with mesh and it's not there without. If in doubt wear full face.

 

[K@rl]

Woodland and there is a gap in the bottom of the glasses

Engagement distances TEND to be greater in woodland. Most get away with a shroud over the mouth. If you feel uncomfortable with that you could try a mouth guard but it's difficult to talk.

There are lot of good pairs of shooting glasses that fully wrap around you face with very few gaps but the is always a risk with this form of eye pro.

If you ever play cqb wear solid (mesh) mouth pro and sealed eye pro.

 

[K@rl]

how is that relevant? you can be shot up close in woodland too, something is either safe or it isn't!.

Whilst you can be, more people take that chance at woodland. I would never play cqb without full face but I I have played woodland with a shroud I can pull up of I am engaging. Not 100% but I play the odds.

 

[Zak Da Mack]

That's ok mate so don't worry but again fairplay for your charge

Are you going back end of this month ??

Probably not. I recently ended up joining the Bolsheviks which is why I went. I don't think they're planning to soon, but if they do, I'll up there again in a heartbeat

 

[Siggi]

I wear a gas-mask. Years back, playing with a bunch of mates on a derelict farm, me and one of the mates came around a corner on each other and I hit him with a burst (six feet, 450fps). One of the BBs went through his scarf and penetrated his lip, the other gashed his scalp. When I saw the BB in his lip I thought it was just a bit of a broken one sticking on the surface. Then he said he could feel a large lump in his lip and when I realised I was seeing just a portion of it through the split flesh I was able to squeeze it out (like a zit). Lesson learned.