Good Goggles with good anti-fog.

[FunkyDoucheMan]

Okay, first off *raises flame shield*. Anyways, what are some of the best goggles and anti-fog for the price?

I currently have the Arena FlakJak Goggles paired with op-drops, and it doesn't really work that well.

[Prophet]

I used to use some GX1000 replicas, which worked great and were about $18 at the Outlet. They're pretty great, but they sometimes fog up. I now use Smith & Wesson shooting glasses (courtesy of Pacman) and they are $20 new and work flawlessly with any household antifog method.

[Patrick750]

I use S&W glasses as well, they're really comfortable.

[Bad Karma]

Mesh glasses are fog-proof. Everything else is contingent upon too many environmental factors. The wearer's breathing habits, sweat, outside temperature and humidity, etc.

[ogrejager]

I disagree. If you're willing to spend $50 or so, you can get a great set of ESS goggles with thermal lenses. I generally don't wear them, sticking with safety glasses and nofog spray, but the ESS's, they don't fog. I've worn them in 100 degree heat in central Oregon fighting wildfire and they just don't fog up.

[Bad Karma]

I disagree. If you're willing to spend $50 or so, you can get a great set of ESS goggles with thermal lenses. I generally don't wear them, sticking with safety glasses and nofog spray, but the ESS's, they don't fog. I've worn them in 100 degree heat in central Oregon fighting wildfire and they just don't fog up.

Whether or not a particular brand of goggles fogs for you does not mean they won't fog for someone else. Contrarily, while I haven't owned good goggles in years, I have had several different brands of shooting glasses fog up while using three or four different anti-fog chemicals (independently, obviously).

Your goggles are a small ecosystem and can experience meteorological changes just like outside. If the air is warm and damp inside your goggles and colder outside, the air contacting your lenses hits the dew point that causes condensation to form. It's not very cold nor humid when you're in the midst of a wildfire.

[Patrick750]

bad karma, you're talking to a kid, but i agree, the best thing to do is get mesh.

[Bad Karma]

bad karma, you're talking to a kid, but i agree, the best thing to do is get mesh.

Well, my comment was actually addressing a forty-year-old. But, even so, high school-age kids should be able to understand basic scientific concepts.

[Cosmos]

Just choose goggles that are safe comfortable with some air circulation. You'll have to try different things to find what works. I have heard many stand by the advice to get anti-fog treatment for scuba divers. I use shooting/safety glasses over my regular glasses and rarely fog. If I use goggles I use the overnight dish soap method.

[Jester316]

The best anti-fog I have found in my 3 years of airsoft is dish soap. Smear a thin layer on, let it dry, and buff clear. Worked perfectly for myself, as well as my team at CQC 7.

The best anti-fog I have found in my 10 years of SCUBA diving, is toothpaste. Smear it on, wash it off with a few dunks off the back of the boat. No fog, and my mask smells minty fresh the whole dive.


Experimenting can be fun (insert sexual reference about Bad Karma here... )

[Deleteplz]

Dish soap has worked fine for me for many years now.

[~Thunder~]

As far as I am concerned, there is no such thing a "fog-proof" goggles.

I'd recommend going mesh.

+1
i'm one of those folks that believes there are only two ways to truly have 'no fog' eye-pro...don't run, or get mesh.
(dish soap, multiple ant-fogs, multiple brand eye-pro...nothing completely works...for me at least)

BitterEnd dot com stamped steel mesh for the win.

bad karma, you're talking to a kid, but i agree, the best thing to do is get mesh.

Open palm, insert face.

[ogrejager]

Wow, there's only one person I know of that calls me, "Kid." He's my Dad--he can still call me kid.

BK, I understand what you're saying--I've been fighting fogging issues on SCUBA, paintball, firegear (both wildland and SCBA structural gear), and airsoft for (in at least two of those cases) longer than you've been alive, dude. I get the issues and that what works for one may not work for another.

Having said that, I've always had best luck with two things--thermal, dual pane lenses and Sea-Drops (antifog for divers). I've tried everything from spit and dishsoap to about every expensive nofog drop you can find. While your use may vary, those are the two I swear by. I don't like mesh--the little clarity you lose drives me nuts.

[Bad Karma]

Don't blame the mesh; It's you're old eyes, Rob.

[ogrejager]

Don't blame the mesh; It's you're old eyes, Rob.

ROFL

Yeah, you're right. When it really sucks is in the duck blind. Then I can't blame it on the goggles....