ESS Goggles "Warning" ... What the hell?

[Yankee]

Has it ever happened?

[ShelledPants]

Originally Posted by NessMcCool

Has it ever happened?

Not to me, personally:

I've worn them to outdoor and indoor games and had bbs gleefully bouncing off or smashing like a fucking Mac truck into my nose.

When I get back to Toronto, first mod for the goggles is to put a Sansei mask onto them.

[Ronald Chang]

Well noted ESS military goggles may not be good for airsoft.

How about those paintball goggles, which are mandatory when we play airsoft in paintball fields for insurance/liability purpose ?

Some enlightenment will be much appreciated.

[Yankee]

A Sansei mask? Any link?

[ILLusion]

Originally Posted by NessMcCool

A Sansei mask? Any link?

http://www.wgcshop.com/pcart/shopper...G3_srch_sansei

[Yankee]

I thought it was a joke...

Seems like I was right!

[panda86]

More and more paintball fields that allow airsoft are requiring the use of paintball approved goggles because:

- The paintball goggle lenses can withstand normal airsoft BB use
- legally, if you are on their property, they want to make sure they are covered liability wise (eg: if someone was playing airsoft on their field wearing "tactical" glasses and gets shot in the eye with a stray paintball and tries to sue the field owner, the owner can say "you were told to use approved paintball goggles".
- paintball approved goggles means ASTM approved paintball goggles / masks. It's a different standard than ANSI (most tactical goggles and glasses). It doesn't matter if an ANSI goggle can stop a freight train, if you used it for paintball and it wasn't ASTM approved (which means tested in a lab for paintball use) there is a liability issue. Someone "could" sue over the issue, that's why these goggle companies are saying "don't use our stuff for airsoft".

BTW: To my knowledge, no company has submitted their tactical goggles for ASTM paintball use. There is also no standard for airsoft goggles yet.

[ShelledPants]

Originally Posted by NessMcCool

I thought it was a joke...

Seems like I was right!

I'm actually not joking.

You remove the face guard from the Sansei mask and attach it to the lower of the ESS goggles with zipties, and shazam: You have a low profile airsoft mask with full face protection. It's a trick a bunch of the guys at TTAC3 do on the regular.

[Yankee]

Nice. So you do want to play with fullface mask now?

[ShelledPants]

Originally Posted by NessMcCool

Nice. So you do want to play with fullface mask now?

I never said I didn't.

I don't like playing with paintball masks because most of them are too high profile and don't allow proper check weld to the stock, making sight alignment a bitch.

[Jimski]

Originally Posted by LUTNIT

"warning: contents extremely hot" even though any retard knows coffee is hot.

/rant
I beg to differ: coffee is not supposed to be extremely hot because heat destroys the taste.
only fastfood joints and typically american/north american compagnies serve boiling-hot coffee diluted like water, in a cup big as big as a bucket.
it's not coffee, it's a cultural agression arh arh
if you go to an italian place to get your expresso you won't burn your face with it, and it won't taste like piss.
/rant

[Foxx]

Isn't a shotgun shell made of several little lead balls that are similar to bbs? If a bb can get past the goggles than what about the lead balls?

[ShelledPants]

Originally Posted by Foxx

Isn't a shotgun shell made of several little lead balls that are similar to bbs? If a bb can get past the goggles than what about the lead balls?

Don't quote me on this, but a recall reading that a common combat shot consists of 8 separate .32 lead balls.

[Yankee]

So confusing... are those damn goggles safe or not..?

[Gigaknight]

Originally Posted by NessMcCool

So confusing... are those damn goggles safe or not..?

Yeah, that'd be nice to know; I just my Profiles in the mail yesterday and now I find out they may not be so useful?!