Glasses for pistol shooting?

[bdbrown66]

Have any of you had any special glasses made for pistol shooting? By that I mean, to enable better focus and depth of field on your sights and target. If so, what was your setup? I wear normal bifocals, so getting everything to look sharp with these old eyes is a challenge. Just wondering if there's a solution I'm missing out on. I do use an EyePal, which helps a bit.

The only thing worse than getting old is not having the opportunity to get old.

Brian

 

[salmonchaser]

Prior to eye surgery I used a low power reading lens for my shooting eye. A 1 or a 1-1/4 as I recall. Front sight was bright target (b27)was fuzzy on the edges but that didn’t matter on that target. Post surgery I see front sight just fine.

 

[RL338]

I only wear bifocals at work , everything else I do is with single vision lens. Years back I thru a red dot on my shotgun and last year I bought a revolver and not long after a red dot went on there also.
That’s my fix.

 

[diverdown]

Have any of you had any special glasses made for pistol shooting? By that I mean, to enable better focus and depth of field on your sights and target. If so, what was your setup? I wear normal bifocals, so getting everything to look sharp with these old eyes is a challenge. Just wondering if there's a solution I'm missing out on. I do use an EyePal, which helps a bit.

The only thing worse than getting old is not having the opportunity to get old.

Brian

I've heard that a lot of shooters use glasses with the reading portion (Normally lower lens) on the top instead of bottom. I'm going to try that on my next set. Since I've had cataract surgery I can get away with no glasses but this would be an interesting experiment.

 

[truck driver]

I have gone several was as my eyes aged and now looking at cataract surgery and single distance vision and wear reading glasses when I need to see things close up.
At present I wear progressive lenses that worked fairly well for years but did have a doctor make up a pair of shooting glasses that had interchangeable lenses for using red dot and open sights.
It's hard to find someone to make up interchangeable different lenses.
Some who have had eye surgery have settled for distance and have had glasses made with bifocal lenses for reading so as not have to carry a pair of reading glasses.

 

[bdbrown66]

I have gone several was as my eyes aged and now looking at cataract surgery and single distance vision and wear reading glasses when I need to see things close up.
At present I wear progressive lenses that worked fairly well for years but did have a doctor make up a pair of shooting glasses that had interchangeable lenses for using red dot and open sights.
It's hard to find someone to make up interchangeable different lenses.
Some who have had eye surgery have settled for distance and have had glasses made with bifocal lenses for reading so as not have to carry a pair of reading glasses.

Tell me about the glasses. What was the difference between the lenses for red dot and irons?

 

[clearwater]

The stick on reading lenses can be trimmed and put anywhere on your shooting glasses. I have one on the upper left quadrant of one pair i use for open sights. The ones i use can be easily removed and relocated with some water.

Amazon.com : stick-on reading lenses

www.amazon.com

 

[Guy Miner]

I had older officers do really well by using their reading glasses, so they could focus on their front sight. Like near-perfect score well.

Of course they didn't go out on patrol with their reading glasses on, so that was a potential problem.

Guy

 

[truck driver]

Tell me about the glasses. What was the difference between the lenses for red dot and irons?

They were custom Ranger shooting glasses with removeable lenses, each lens for a different shooting application, red dot and open sights, ground to my prescription. All lenses were tinted a light Rose to counter UV rays.

 

[Vince]

I use progressive polycarbonate shatterproof lenses.

They work pretty well for me. The one piece of advice is to get the best quality polycarbonate lenses you can afford. Polycarbonate comes in different quality gradients. The cheaper stuff looks like those funny mirrors at the county fair that distorts everything.

Vince

 

[wildcatter]

I use a 1.25X reader for open sights, but for hunting even that doesn't fix my old age problem of having enough light against a dark background. so Buhler made this mount for my Blackhawks to use the burris fast fire III, but on the bigger 45 Colt and 44 mags or bigger they wont allow for anything heavier to be mounted, NO SCOPES>

 

[reflex264]

I have prescription shooting glasses made. I wear progressive tri-focal and can't shoot well with them. I went to my eye doctor and explained the problem to her. She worked with me diligently to figure out how to improve my glasses for shooting. It works.

 

[bdbrown66]

I have prescription shooting glasses made. I wear progressive tri-focal and can't shoot well with them. I went to my eye doctor and explained the problem to her. She worked with me diligently to figure out how to improve my glasses for shooting. It works.

I'd be curious to know how those glasses compare to your regular glasses. Like, what is the focal length? Arms length, where your sights are? Or something else?

 

[reflex264]

I'd be curious to know how those glasses compare to your regular glasses. Like, what is the focal length? Arms length, where your sights are? Or something else?

I come back with details.

 

[reflex264]

I'd be curious to know how those glasses compare to your regular glasses. Like, what is the focal length? Arms length, where your sights are? Or something else?

I am right eye dominant and near sighted with astigmatism in my right eye. I am far sighted with astigmatism in my left eye. She worked it out where my right eye focuses perfectly at 25 yards and weakened the correction for my left eye which makes my right eye do the bulk of the work. The first match I went to after the new glasses I was only 19 pts out of first place out of a possible 500. Getting better with each shoot. I started hunting with them as well.

 

[bdbrown66]

I am right eye dominant and near sighted with astigmatism in my right eye. I am far sighted with astigmatism in my left eye. She worked it out where my right eye focuses perfectly at 25 yards and weakened the correction for my left eye which makes my right eye do the bulk of the work. The first match I went to after the new glasses I was only 19 pts out of first place out of a possible 500. Getting better with each shoot. I started hunting with them as well.

Thanks for the info. Are you shooting iron sights?