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IMHO: "Safety First"; HA/PC Second."

I figure if they had the eye protection back in the day, they would have used it.
I know some stuffed cotton balls or flax in their ears to help protect their hearing.

If boots that kept their feet unfrozen at -40° (or colder) had been available, they would have used them.
If they had had Gortex, (to quote Arty Johnson of Laugh-In fame): "You Bet Your Sweet Bippy" (end quote) they would have used that, too.
Same for all our "modern" stuff that keeps one warm and comfortable in the field. (or at home, come to that.)

Wear the "modern" stuff under your HA/PC stuff, if you want to look like you just stepped out of the 16th/17th or 18th centuries.
Better alive and well, than the HA/PC correct losing a finger/hand/toes/foot or limb to frostbite, or froze to death.
 
how many people hunt with shooting glasses & ear plugs?
I don’t use ear protection but I do use eye protection. I have prescription glasses that I use and before that I always used some form of glasses. Fragments of caps, flints and gasses are no fun. Not to mention if you’ve ever been “twigged” by a tree branch is no fun. Art
 
My prescription glasses serve as eye protection (they are tough). I've always worn hearing protection at the range, and this season I started hunting wearing Howard Leight earmuff-type protection. They have mics in the muffs that cut off when gun fires. Save what hearing I have left. (Also, recent research found that if you wait too long to get hearing aids you won't regain all you've lost, due to nerve atrophy. Wife made me go get tested. Wake-up call!)
 
Let's see, a decent set of hearing protection with electronic amplification are about $50 or less. A good set of hearing aids at age 50 or 60 will run you $3000 and more at todays prices and won't replace decent hearing. I would opt for using hearing protection most of the time. I might go without if I was deer hunting and didn't expect to fire more than one or two shots. Ask me how I know.
 
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Looks outa place don’t it, normally I do wear repo glasses. Something could hurt your eyes, but I doubt it could overcome any safty glass on modern prescription glasses
 
S. Kenton, heck that shouldn’t be of any great surprise .......topics go off on their own all the time around here! Lol. Greg
 
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