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[Avatar of WoeBrian]

So you play nerf... simple foam-shooting guns that happen to be harmless little weapons that couldn't harm an animal. Well after the introduction of modifications maybe we'd have to change that statement. Anyways let me get to what I am trying to say. Wear eye protection if you play with modified or powerful nerf weapons.

Just the other day, I was at my friend's house along with another friend and we happened to pull out a few nite-finders/disc shot pistols and play around. Well my other friend and I ran away to my house, stocked up on some ammo and came back. The friend we had left at his own house, decided to pull out his modified Longshot and was pissed off. So we snuck into the house and I got split up and I heard shooting upstairs. Walked up to the room and about 5 inches away from my right eye was, I met the barrel of the Longshot and BAM... Thank God (sorry if you religious people don't like this) he didn't have any modified ammo with him because he can't make his Stefans flat and most of them were pointed like rifle rounds. Anyways my eye had no time to close so I was hit dead on and my eye was totall blurry. I can now see but there is still time-to-time blurriness. This happened two days ago on Friday and I am probably going to see a doctor tomorrow after school. This is just a warning for those of you who might think nerf is something you don't have to wear eye protection with. Well when you have modified something to shoot beyond what is safe, it is better to do so. I usually do wear eye protection when playing with modified nerf weapons however that day I was playing with stock pistols shooting stock dart taggers and mainly was not expecting the modified longshot that has a range of about 70-80 (we have not properly range tested but it is capable of those ranges)

Play safe guys, it's not fun when you have to walk around with a blurry or even blind eye.

[frost vectron]

I always wear at least a pair of sunglasses when I nerf.

When I want no tint, I wear safety glasses (which are less than $5 at any given hardware store). Not the big clunky ones or goggles, but just the clear sun-glass-looking ones.

A lot of my friends don't wear them, but I just say, hey one unlucky shot is all it takes.

[penguin807]

Oww, that's gotta hurt. The same thing happened to me, only it was with a dremel, and a cut off disk that almost hit me in the eye, and I don't have to see a doctor, and my dremel wasn't pissed off at me... So, wear eye protection when dremeling too.

[Carbon]

Thanks for the safety reminder…and I hope that blurriness goes away.

My introduction to Nerf guns was by being shot in the eye at close range by a stock Lock ‘n’ Load. Yes, it hurt like a sunnovabitch for about 20 minutes. That was my first time seeing that, hey, these things have some power….and that was with a stock suction tip mega. It’s not hard to imagine the damage that can happen with something faster, harder and smaller. Play safe.

[Groove]

I've been hit in almost every place imaginable on my body: ears, forehead, lips, knuckles, neck, elbow...the list goes on. However, the most painful and potentially harmful place to get hit is easily the eyes. This is a huge phobia of mine in particular as I am in the visual arts field, and if I lose my eyesight, I lose everything. This is why you rarely see any video footage / pictures of me without my Ray-Bans on my face. I usually only take them off during lunch when everyone's hands are holding food, not blasters.

I hope everything turns out okay for you, Brian - hopefully this is only something temporary. This is a good reminder to everyone that enjoys this hobby of ours: Be safe, and have fun. But safety always comes first.


-Groove

[Dayko]

Hope the eye blurriness goes away. I got hit with a flying piece of plastic in the eye while dremaling. Ever since then I have always worn safety glasses. This is a good reminder to people to wear some sort of eye protection
when playing or moding.

[Kenpachi Taicho]

Eye protection is a definite MUST HAVE for me. I was recently in the most hostile nerf environment I've ever been in (a dorm room with 6 guys equipped with either a modded mav or a modded nf, watching hockey), and got smoked in the eye. In all fair ness I should've known to be wearing my eye gear, especially considering all we were going for was head shots. Blurry vision absolutley affects your aim, wear eye protection!

[precisionnerfer]

I think this should be stickied in the nerf wars section. We can share stories about when we didn't wear I pro and what happened. Fortunately we were using stock darts, but someone shot and I turned the corner at the same time and ta-da! Right in the eye; could see straight through it for 3 hours. It was when we didn't know about modding.

Edited by precisionnerfer, 05 November 2007 - 03:06 PM.

[Foam Shooter]

I got hit in the eye with a dart tag dart. Luckily my eye was closed but the next day I couldn't open my eye because it was sealed closed with a long, thin scab. It didn't hurt but it was very embarrising when everyone was like "what did you do to your eye" and I have to answer "I got shot with a Nerf gun" then they are like "wow what a wuss."

[Thomas]

I got shot with a Streamline(?) dart in a crossfire, and the kid wasn't even aiming at me. I guess the moral of the story is, always wear protection, because accidents happen.

[ultra920]

I've been hit in almost every place imaginable on my body: ears, forehead, lips, knuckles, neck, elbow...the list goes on. However, the most painful and potentially harmful place to get hit is easily the eyes. This is a huge phobia of mine in particular as I am in the visual arts field, and if I lose my eyesight, I lose everything. This is why you rarely see any video footage / pictures of me without my Ray-Bans on my face. I usually only take them off during lunch when everyone's hands are holding food, not blasters.

I hope everything turns out okay for you, Brian - hopefully this is only something temporary. This is a good reminder to everyone that enjoys this hobby of ours: Be safe, and have fun. But safety always comes first.


-Groove

Wow, thought those were part of your face.

[lionhead333]

Maybe we should sticky this as the official 'Nerf Safety' thread.

Try to wear gardening gloves while dremeling, even though they're uncomfortable.
I was using an almost-dead cutter disc on some PVC when the disc caught a snag. My entire dremel jumps off the PVC and into my hand.
Did you know un-reinforced cutoff discs shatter on contact with bone? I didn't.

[SHADOW HUNTER ALPHA]

Eye protection is always a must. My friend had his right-eye cornia scratched by a stock tagger from 10' away with a Maverick. He wore an eye patch for three days.

Also, if you touch your Dremel, have glasses on. My cut-off wheel broke and embedded part of the blade in my shitty DTG glasses. Not cool. If I wasn't wearing those, I wouldn't be seeing out of my left eye. A face mask is also a good idea for Dremels, especially if you are cutting brass/metal or sanding. PVC powder and brass shavings are two of the last things you want in your lungs. As far as gloves go, it's not a bad idea as long as they can't catch the Dremel and increase the chance of you being cut. That almost happened with one of my older pairs, but the cut-off wheel shredded the threads and I could pull my hand away before anything happened.

[CAPS]

Perfect example, still makes me laugh.

Du-du-du-du-du-dude! Are you ok?

Make sure the nerfgun isn't cocked everytime you look down the barrel.

[TJ]

I know how you feel, my friend (ever the show o[quote]ffy ass) shot me from no more then six feet away with his lightly modfied longshot surprise alone knocked me down. Thankfully it wasn't modified heavily and he was using streamlines, my eye was fine in about an hour. Also my friend Kevin was shot by my other friend Alex with a unmodded disk shot I had hid (One must wonder what she was doing looking under the covers on my top bunk...) literally two inches form his face. He didnt even have time to think about closing his eyes. Lucky for him I hadn't gotten around to tinkering with it. He couldn't open his eye for two hours, and promptly proclaimed he was using eye protection in any type of future nerf situation. So kids, use eyeglasses or you'll shoot your eye out.

[BustaNinja]

Really. Use eye protection. In a related story, my friend was shooting at bees with his airsoft gun. He was going inside to get eye protection after a few rounds and right when he turned around he got hit in his eye. He got a detached retina from this and after a few days he was fine but still. ALWAYS WEAR IT!

[nerfer34]

I've gotten shot twice in the eye. THANKFULLY BOTH TIMES I'VE BEEN PEFRFECTLY FINE!

Story 1- It was a 1vs. 1vs. 1 game between me, my brother, and a friend. Me and my brother made an alliance and we were both moving in on my friend. Then my brother shot me LITERALLY 6 inches away from his gun directly in the eye. THANK the lord that it was a stock dart. I beat the shit out him after.....

My eye was blurry for like 20 minutes and it was bleeding from the side(not nearly as bad as it sounds) But it honestly didn't hurt..... wierd...

story 2- It was a 5v5 and I was about 25' from a person using a quadded 2k. He shot me with a stefan square in the eye. I REALLY felt this one at first. I had to sit out a round. It just stung and stung so badly. I was pretty scared. My eye just looked REALLY bloodshot. And the next 2 days it kept stinging, especially when I looked in the light and in bright places. But it went away agfter a few more days.

By the Way I wear contact lenses... I don't know if that helps a little.

But it seems like every time I don't wear eye protection i get shot there. Always wear it.

[n-strike]

About 2 nights ago, I was having a duel with my friend. (The one where you stand back to back and go forward 3 paces and turn around and shoot.) When he shot me, it hit me in the eye, and luckily, was able to see right after the shot. Next time, I need to find some eye protction!

[bobafan]

I haven't ever been shot in the eye without my glasses, but be careful when using anything with large amounts of speed involved. I was drilling out a rivet on my greathelm, and the drill bit suddenly shattered, sending an inch long sliver into my thumb length-wise.
Not fun.
Needless to say, if it had incountered my eye, I'm certain I would be blind in whichever eye it found.

goggles=good

Edited by bobafan, 05 November 2007 - 09:52 PM.

[Lynx]

Just on Saturday, I was popped in between my eyes with a WEAK spring nf. If he used my nf, it would have deflected into my eye. Gotta love the cheap a** 1.50$ cvs/walgreens/dollar store sunglasses...

[Forsaken angel24]

At Hell before Halloween, I was shot in the eye section of my protective glasses. The gun being used was a modded SM 1500. He was about 15 feet away. I swear I would be blind had I not been wearing them.
Scared the crap out of me.

[deaddumpster]

At Hell before Halloween, I was shot in the eye section of my protective glasses. The gun being used was a modded SM 1500. He was about 15 feet away. I swear I would be blind had I not been wearing them.
Scared the crap out of me.

I remember that, I heard you when it hit as well. I laughed until I noticed what exactly would have happened without the glasses. Let me just put it this way, glasses didn't help me with my singled Titan (after that I turned it into a Mongo for added entertainment), I was shot square in the eye (well, there were glasses in the way of course) from about 20' away a while ago by it and it almost completely shattered them. The dart stopped halfway through the glasses almost a millimetre away from my eye, I was lucky there but still got plastic shards in my eye after. I now never go Nerfing without a thicker pair of glasses.

[SHADOW HUNTER ALPHA]

I would recommend durable sunglasses or something similar for Nerfing, especially in the bright summer and against well-modded guns. You don't need Rec-Specs, but get something that will last more than one shot. Try to avoid the DTG glasses for actual games as well, as they can fall off your head easily. That's why I only use them while Dremeling.