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Old June 25th, 2006, 12:51   #9
Lisa
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My earlier post made me wonder what are paintball aproved googles.

JT's site had nothing that I could find in a cursory view, same with any site refering to JT.

I did find a few sites that mention a standard (ASTM F1776) that are paintball approved.
http://www.warpig.com/paintball/newb...er/index.shtml
http://www.aao.org/aao/member/policy/sports.cfm
http://www.paintball.org/downloads/P...es-Article.pdf

In the last link it specifically mentions that ANSI Z87.1-1989 are not paintball safe and will fail. Now paintball goggles are designed to reflect (or bounce paintballs, not bbs)

Now when doing some of my research I was talking to Droc who mentioned that he has witnessed an airsoft bb fired from a 400fps gun causing a paintball goggle to fail (more info in another post to come) so while paintball goggles may be mandatory at paintball fields if you have the option to wear something different you might consder doing that.
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