Originally Posted by jonmyrlebailey

For decades I have seen a disproportionately greater number of bespectacled boys in hunting scenes, whether in books, magazines, TV shows and in film. We are not talking about children in safety glasses at the range here. I can't figure this phenomenon out. Wearing corrective glasses to some might make hunting seem geeky and not "cool". Young boys wearing specs might turn to outdoor sports and mother nature because the glasses make them social outcasts in their peer groups who do city stuff like surfing, hot rods, 10-speed-bike-riding, pinball, skateboarding, pushmobiles, soap box derby and rock and roll music. Is there a better explanation for the higher rate of glasses-wearing in the shooting sports, range safety eyewear notwithstanding? It would seem to me that the glasses-wearers with recreational guns are a smart, intellectual group. Perhaps, campaigns to promote gun rights and hunting should show a lot of people with glasses and who are well-dressed, city-slick-looking, to engender a positive public perception of the shooting world. Motorcycling once suffered from a negative image because of all the greasy, brutish unsophisticated boorish apes associated with it. Do YOU know any doctors, lawyers, scientists, IT geeks and teachers who are recreational shooters and/or hunters?

Below is a picture of me at age 32. Don't the Buddy Holly specs along with the buffalo plaid Pendleton and blaze orange make me look studious as a hunter?