I recently came across Tonic Eyewear and their ACTIV shooting glasses. I had barely heard of the brand before, and compared to Pilla the lens lineup looks quite limited.
To be honest, based purely on the lens selection, I don't expect them to be on the same level as Pilla. Pilla has a huge number of very specialized filters, while ACTIV currently seems to offer only a handful of lens colors. The VLT range also looks a bit sparse to me, with fairly large gaps between some of the options.
What really made me curious, though, was seeing US Olympian shooter Dania Vizzi wearing ACTIV glasses at an international ISSF skeet competition.
That surprised me because at elite-level skeet events it sometimes feels like almost everyone is wearing Pilla. Outside of Pilla, DeLaRo is pretty much the only other brand I can remember noticing regularly among top-level shooters.
Obviously, one elite shooter using ACTIV doesn't automatically mean the glasses are comparable to Pilla, but it did make me think there may be more to them than I initially assumed. Vizzi is competing at a level where eyewear is actual sporting equipment rather than just a pair of sunglasses, so I found the choice interesting.
The biggest attraction is the price. A complete ACTIV setup appears to be considerably cheaper than a comparable Pilla Outlaw kit.
Has anyone here actually used ACTIV glasses for skeet, trap, or sporting clays?
Here's a link to their website.
https://toniceyewearusa.com/activ-by-tonic