New shooting glasses

[garandman]

Been competing 50 yd rim fire bench rest matches where you have to both look through the scope with the right eye and see the wind flags with the left eye at the same time ( rt hand shooter) My regular glasses are single vision distance lenses but they don't work real well for bench rest shooting. Looking through the scope with the right eye, I need to take my glasses off but seeing the wind flags with my left eye I need the assistance seeing distance. So I got these glasses that have no magnification in the right eye but single vision distance in the left.


The yellow tint was especially helpful in getting the crosshair/dot reticle to be super crisp on target...





This approximates what the left versus right lens looks like for me the shooter..... Though the right eye is crystal clear looking through the scope...



Not sure what others do but this helped me.

 

[perazziguy]

That's a great idea garandman! If you forgot to take those off for the drive home, would they be like "beer goggles"? My dad is totally blind in his right eye and for some reason, people are baffled when he wants to order one prescription shooting glass lens!
Jonathan Taylor

 

[garandman]

That's a great idea garandman! If you forgot to take those off for the drive home, would they be like "beer goggles"? My dad is totally blind in his right eye and for some reason, people are baffled when he wants to order one prescription shooting glass lens!
Jonathan Taylor

The left is same as my driving glasses, the right is just a plastic lens. $160, including eye exam.

 

[garandman]

Am I the only mutt who shoots precision rifle needing glasses ? Lol

 

[Forum Boss]

Here’s another Suggestion...

CONTACT LENSES

Use a corrective contact lens in ONE eye only, and then you can use standard $10 safety glasses.

That’s what I do. I am near-sighted. So I shoot with no correction in right eye (scope side) and a -1.75 contact lens in left eye. I pay about $28 for six soft contacts at CVS.

 

[dunraven]

You could use a press-on bifocal on the left eye. That eye can focus the scope dials.

 

[garandman]

Here’s another Suggestion...

CONTACT LENSES

Use a corrective contact lens in ONE eye only, and then you can use standard $10 safety glasses.

That’s what I do. I am near-sighted. So I shoot with no correction in right eye (scope side) and a -1.75 contact lens in left eye. I pay about $28 for six contacts at CVS.

I really really tried that. About a half hour into trying to insert the first contact, my eye was all red and bloodshot and sore. 15 seconds after finally getting one contact in, it popped out. I was done. Something about sticking my own finger in my eye doesn't work with my operating system.

Maybe I should try again. Or maybe I'm just defective. And I'd still need safety glasses anyway.

 

[garandman]

You could use a press-on bifocal on the left eye. That eye can focus the scope dials.

Not familair with that. Is that an adhesive lens that sticks to the safety shooting glass lens? Or a clip on type of flip-up lens?

To be clear....left eye is focused mainly on wind flags, so I need a distance lens.

 

[MislMan]

Lots of attachment type accessories are used in Bullseye pistol shooting. Do a Goggle search for shooting blinders or occluders and you’ll find lots of info and websites for such products as well as shooting glasses in general.

 

[Forum Boss]

I really really tried that. About a half hour into trying to insert the first contact, my eye was all red and bloodshot and sore. 15 seconds after finally getting one contact in, it popped out. I was done. Something about sticking my own finger in my eye doesn't work with my operating system.

Maybe I should try again. Or maybe I'm just defective. And I'd still need safety glasses anyway.

Soft Contacts? From original package? Fingers Clean?

Everyone is different, but you shouldn't have these issues at ALL. Go to a good eye-doctor/lens dispenser. Honestly, with the right solution, after a couple tries, you should have Zero discomfort and after 20-30 minutes you won't even know they are in your eyes...

I won't even tell you how long I can wear modern soft contacts continuously with zero irritation. (It's still recommended to remove them daily).

 

[Ccrider]

@Forum Boss hit the nail square on the head. I am nearsighted with a stigmatism and have been wearing contacts for about 15 years.

I can read a book without them. I could not wear the hard contacts because they irritated my eyes. The soft contacts are totally different. As FB said, after a few minutes you will not know they are in.

the contacts I wear now are set up for up close reading in my left eye and far away vision on my right dominant eye. That way I do not have to wear reading glasses when I have them on.

I had my doctor write a prescription for far away vision for my left eye when I shoot so that I can see the windflags more clearly with my left eye when shooting. Works great.

I have also tried shooting without the contact in my right eye since my closeup vision does not need correction. The only difference I noted was that I had to readjust the front scope lens.

 

[garandman]

Yes... soft contacts. My eyelids instinctivly close when my finger tries to insert the lens. Trust me... I have tried.

 

[garandman]

I had my doctor write a prescription for far away vision for my left eye when I shoot so that I can see the windflags more clearly with my left eye when shooting. Works great.

I have also tried shooting without the contact in my right eye since my closeup vision does not need correction. The only difference I noted was that I had to readjust the front scope lens.

Im doing the same thing with these safety glasses.

 

[Ccrider]

Yes... soft contacts. My eyelids instinctivly close when my finger tries to insert the lens. Trust me... I have tried.

NO! Try not! Do or Do Not! THERE IS NO TRY!

Mine do too. Fight the urge. Look down at the floor instead of at that finger going into your eye. You can do it.

 

[garandman]

NO! Try not! Do or Do Not! THERE IS NO TRY!

Mine do too. Fight the urge. Look down at the floor instead of at that finger going into your eye. You can do it.

Its worth another try.

 

[Forum Boss]

Honestly -- placing a soft contact takes maybe 5-10 seconds.

As for your reflex, I assume that 1000s of times in your life you have used your finger to clear some mucuous or dust from your eye, done with lids open.

Or used an eye-dropper. You can hold the upper lid open with the other hand.

 

[garandman]

Honestly -- placing a soft contact takes maybe 5-10 seconds.

As for your reflex, I assume that 1000s of times in your life you have used your finger to clear some mucuous or dust from your eye, done with lids open.

Or used an eye-dropper. You can hold the upper lid open with the other hand.

I don't desire to argue...but I can tell you... doing what's easy for you is a real, significant, long term problem for me. I appreciate your encouragement, but that doesn't make what you are suggesting easy or even possible for me. Usually, when I rub my eyes to clear dust or mucous, its done with eye lid closed, or teh eye open but by lighly pressing / rubbing on the outside of the eyelid. Not making that up. I don't know how else to es'splain it to ya. I wish it were otherwise. Its not.

 

[golong]

I had a bad experience with contacts. Get fit on a whim at a big box store. Red eye, would not stay in, kept getting dry, all that fun stuff. Gave up on them. Many months later I spoke to my regular optometrist. He gave me a different brand and suggested a 2 week lens rather than a 30 day lens. Been just fine ever since.

 

[Ccrider]

Go to the best optometrist around.

 

[dc.fireman]

I too use international style lens + blinder + frame eye protection. As a position shooter, conventional eye protection fogs up at in-opportune times, and doesn't help keep the eye looking through the center of the rear diopter. My Centra rear aperture has an orange filter that I use, which like yellow, eliminates blue light from entering the eye.

While I could have gotten a prescription lens, I'm not *yet* to that point (but getting closer each day). My wifes eye dr. made a plain uncoated 23mm lens for the rifle lens holder, and a 37 for the pistol lens holder:

Jaggi-Nova eyewear