Frag Out! Magazine
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I brought both types of the inserts together with a prescription to an optometrist in my town. After famil- iarizing with a specification of the future user, he im- mediately suggested making corrective lenses from polycarbonate, not glass. He also advised against using in the future progressive or dual-focus lenses. Leaving out weakening of these lenses, their real usability at the shooting range could be strongly disputable. A waiting time for the ready lenses in my case (light far-sighted- ness, slight astigmatism) was 24hrs and their cost was like $35 per a pair. So the costs increase: a purchase of the glasses, a purchase of the inserts and lenses. But I will not go at the shooting range in the corrective glasses, and in the goggles in which I look rather terri- bly… A combination of the corrective inserts with the adapters is fabulously easy. The same with assembling the entire product to the ballistic glasses. I tested the inserts in the various combinations with two types of the ESS eyewear: light, frameless ICE™ eye shields and more robust Crosshair™, which are a "budget version" of the Crossbrow™ glasses. All tested variants work at least well, although I prefer a combination of the ICE™ glasses with the wire Vice Rx™ insert. Nevertheless, it is a very individual matter. Such a combination ensures a sight protection at the good level with a low mass of the whole kit and a lack of the "super-tactical" look what is sometimes useful in the everyday street situations. A certain shortcoming of the ICE™ frames, resulting from their design, is a decreased stability of their holding on the head – a securing belt is very useful here. Those disadvantages are not present in the Crosshair™ frames which hold on my head as if it were sealed and in re- spect of this can constitute a benchmark for the other manufacturers. At the beginning I was a little bit afraid of the massive- ness of the U-Rx™ inserts and that they may obscure a field of vision. Well, I was wrong. A distance between www.fragoutmag.com