rbstern
05-05-2014, 08:31 PM
I've occasionally been guilty of taking off my shooting glasses on a hot, steamy day, when my lenses got fogged up. Not very often, but when the conditions are making accurate shooting tough.
I'll never do it again.
Yesterday, I was shooting my S&W 2206. The rear sight has been a problem for a while on this gun. The screw holding the adjustable rear leaf to the slide kept working loose. I had tried Locktite a while back, but it just wasn't holding. So I would tighten it once or twice during a session as the gun heated up and the screw started to work loose.
I had just tightened the screw, walked to my firing position, and started shooting at my target. Next thing I know, the rear sight comes flying off the gun, and hits me right in the right lens of my glasses. Hit hard enough to leave a series of scratches in the lens, directly in front of the pupil. The rear sight screw had sheared off.
Don't know if I would have lost my eye. Certainly would have been at least a scratched cornea.
The gun will be heading back to S&W this week for service, as they'll need to extract the shaft of that tiny screw from the slide. Looking at parts diagrams from Numrich, they apparently added a bushing to the sight screw in later production models, presumably to spread the recoil force to a broader surface and take some pressure off that tiny screw.
So, friends...shooting glasses...always!
I'll never do it again.
Yesterday, I was shooting my S&W 2206. The rear sight has been a problem for a while on this gun. The screw holding the adjustable rear leaf to the slide kept working loose. I had tried Locktite a while back, but it just wasn't holding. So I would tighten it once or twice during a session as the gun heated up and the screw started to work loose.
I had just tightened the screw, walked to my firing position, and started shooting at my target. Next thing I know, the rear sight comes flying off the gun, and hits me right in the right lens of my glasses. Hit hard enough to leave a series of scratches in the lens, directly in front of the pupil. The rear sight screw had sheared off.
Don't know if I would have lost my eye. Certainly would have been at least a scratched cornea.
The gun will be heading back to S&W this week for service, as they'll need to extract the shaft of that tiny screw from the slide. Looking at parts diagrams from Numrich, they apparently added a bushing to the sight screw in later production models, presumably to spread the recoil force to a broader surface and take some pressure off that tiny screw.
So, friends...shooting glasses...always!