Many shooters stupidly ignore their eyes and ears: too often they take them for granted. That’s partly understandable. Eyes and ears are kind of like hands and feet; you use them so frequently and without conscious thought that they’re just part of your everyday life. Their use doesn’t seem special.
Oh, but they are.
I’ve been at this shooting game for a long time … long enough to have intense hearing impairment—possibly from my time on the tank range in the Army—and to have experienced near disastrous eye damage. I’ve had multiple incidents with handguns that could have been blinding had I not had my eyes protected.
So, I’m