When doing much shooting daily out-of-doors it is well to wear a pair of big diameter spectacles fitting well behind the ears so that they do not shift. The spectacles may be of plain white glass, or else of a colour to suit the state of the sunlight.
Blue or grey used to be the usual colours; lately yellow-green seems to be the colour most recommended by oculists.
I found such yellow-green glasses a great relief to the eyes when bear shooting in the glare of sunlight on snow.
I am referring to men who have normal eyesight, not to those who have already to wear glasses to correct vision.
It is important to protect the ears, perhaps even more important than the eyes. There is very little danger to the eyes but the ears are in very real danger when shooting.
Even the comparatively slight noise when shooting the gallery .44 ammunition or the short rifle .22, from constant pounding on the same note, affects the ears unless they are protected.
A concert pianist, one would think, by the noise he makes on the piano, would injure his ears even more than a pistol shot does, as the noise he makes is much louder.
Perhaps he does injure his ears and that is the reason he has to pound so hard and breaks the piano strings in his efforts to hear his own music.
Be that as it may, playing a variety of notes saves his ears as he does not have the constant hit on the one note and with the same intensity.
The ear is the least known of the various organs and is the one least successfully treated.