FortKnight Optics Discount for Silvercore Club Members

By Travis Bader, founder of Silvercore Outdoors.

Good eyewear matters when you are behind glass, on the line, or spending a long day in the field. Squint, strain, or catch glare off a lens at the wrong moment, and your shooting suffers before you know why. That is why we are pleased to bring Silvercore Club members a discount with FortKnight Optics, a Canadian company building eyewear for shooters, hunters, and people who actually use their glasses outdoors.

Who FortKnight Optics Is

FortKnight Optics is a Vancouver, BC company focused on the shooting and outdoor community. The story is a familiar one. Their founder spent years investing in top rifle optics, then kept noticing that the glasses sitting between his eye and that glass were an afterthought. Cheap frames, distorted lenses, coatings that flared in the sun. So they built eyewear to match the quality of the optics on the rifle, using lenses made with ZEISS.

That ZEISS partnership is the centre of the product. The lenses are ANSI Z87.1 rated for impact, anti-fog, scratch resistant, and both hydrophobic and oleophobic, so they shed water and oil and stay clean. FortKnight quotes up to 70 percent greater optical clarity through the lens, which lines up with what you would expect from a real ZEISS coating package rather than a generic safety lens.

What the Silvercore Club Discount Covers

Silvercore Club members get 15 percent off FortKnight eyewear. That applies across the lineup, the clear Ballistic models and the tactical sunglasses alike.

To claim it, log into your Silvercore Club account for your member discount code, then enter it at checkout on fortknightoptics.ca. The code lives in your member account rather than out here on the page, which keeps the discount where it belongs, with members.

On a 199.99 USD pair, 15 percent is roughly 30 dollars off. Add prescription lenses, or kit out more than one shooter in the house, and the savings stack up past the cost of the membership on a single order.

The 308 and 338 Models, and Which One You Want

Here is the part people get wrong. The 308 and the 338 are not a good model and a better model. They are the same ZEISS Ballistic Clear lens in two different frame sizes. Same glass, same protection, same regular price of 199.99 USD. The number is just the model name.

The difference is fit:

• The 308 is the small to medium frame. If you would normally reach for a medium pair of glasses, or you have a narrower face, this is your size.
• The 338 is the large or wide frame. If a medium frame tends to pinch or sit short on you, go with the 338.

If you are between sizes, either will work. FortKnight has a sizing guide on each product page, and you can check frame width against a credit card to get it right before you order.

The 308 is currently sold out and coming back into stock. If the 308 is your size and it is out when you look, get on their list rather than sizing up to a frame that will not fit.

Prescription Shooters

For those of us who need a prescription, the options have always been thin. Wear contacts under safety glasses, pay a premium to a specialty maker, or make do with regular glasses and hope they hold up. Both FortKnight Ballistic Clear models come in a prescription version. On the product page there is a Click for Prescription option right above the add to cart button that walks you through it.

If you have been putting off sorting your range glasses because it felt like more hassle than it was worth, this removes most of the excuse.

Why Good Shooting Eyewear Actually Matters

If you have spent any time on a range in less than ideal conditions, you already know this. Cheap lenses fog. Cheap frames slip. Cheap coatings flare when the sun comes in at an angle, and suddenly your sight picture is a wash of glare instead of a clean target.

I have written before about the difference quality optics make when conditions turn against you, in our review of the Tangent Theta and on Silvercore Podcast Episode 90. The same logic applies to what is sitting on your face. In ideal conditions, almost any pair of safety glasses gets you through a session. Add a downpour, a temperature swing, or a low winter sun raking across the firing line, and the gap between good eyewear and bad eyewear opens up fast.

The specifics that matter:

• Lens clarity with no distortion across the full field of view
• Coatings that handle glare and resist fogging
• Frame geometry that does not fight your ear pro or your cheek weld
• Durability when the glasses get dropped, sat on, or stuffed into a range bag

A pair that fails on any one of those becomes a pair you stop wearing, which defeats the purpose.

How This Fits the Silvercore Club

FortKnight is one partner on a roster that members get for 59 dollars CAD per year. A Silvercore Club membership also includes:

• 5 million dollars CAD of third party liability insurance covering hunting and shooting activities across North America
• RCMP approved ATT eligibility. The Silvercore Club was the first gun club in Canada to receive official RCMP approval for the issuance of Authorizations to Transport
• 100 percent off Silvercore's online courses, excluding Online CORE, Waterfowl 101, and Anchored Outdoors branded courses
• Partner discounts with companies we actually use, from optics and cases to apparel
• Canada wide and international membership. The Club serves members in every province and territory, and internationally

FortKnight joins that roster because they make a product our members will use, not because they cut us the biggest cheque.

A Note on Buying Canadian

When we choose partners, we look at the product first and the story second. That said, supporting a Canadian company building gear for the Canadian shooting community is the kind of choice that compounds. Dollars spent with companies like FortKnight stay in the ecosystem that supports the rest of us, from the range down the road to the next shooter coming through their CFSC.

Get Set Up

If you have been meaning to replace beat up shooting glasses, sort out prescription lenses for the range, or just put proper glass in front of your eye to match the glass on your rifle, this is the time. Log into your Silvercore Club account for your FortKnight discount code, or join the Club at silvercore.ca/club to access this and the rest of the partner program.

Good glass behind the scope matters. Good glass in front of your eye matters too.

Travis Bader Silvercore Outdoors