Perscription Eye Glasses

[tmwinds]

I managed to drop my glasses and run over them with the lawnmower. I'm headed to the optometrist tomorrow for new glasses. The glasses will be used primarily for reading, computer and SHOOTING 100 YD. AND 600 YD. BENCHREST. They will be bifocal lens.

Do any of you blind shooters have any suggestions as to what I should tell the optometrist and what I should look for in a good pair of shooting glasses that will be used for the other purposes?
Safety is a concern.
Thanks

 

[madmixerman]

I managed to drop my glasses and run over them with the lawnmower. I'm headed to the optometrist tomorrow for new glasses. The glasses will be used primarily for reading, computer and SHOOTING 100 YD. AND 600 YD. BENCHREST. They will be bifocal lens.

Do any of you blind shooters have any suggestions as to what I should tell the optometrist and what I should look for in a good pair of shooting glasses that will be used for the other purposes?
Safety is a concern.
Thanks

I wear progressive lenses & had trouble looking through different parts of the lens that affected my shooting. I went to wearing safety glasses & adjusted the scope for my eyes. My scores have improved since doing this.

 

[JohnKielly]

I do not use anything other than single focus prescription lenses for shooting with the optical centre located to coincide with where I look thru them when I'm on the rifle.

Why not buy the off the shelf glasses for reading & the computer where precision isn't an issue?

Madmixer, how to you dope the wind with unfocused eyes?

 

[colder]

Contacts! Glasses, depending on your eyes, make you look off the optical plane. Making it near impossible to replicate your set up. Told to me by my doc

 

[JohnKielly]

Contacts! Glasses, depending on your eyes, make you look off the optical plane. Making it near impossible to replicate your set up. Told to me by my doc

Contacts, when you squint in eroding wind, dry conditions or glare, change focus, the more so with the supersoft ones prescribed these days. Been there, done that.

Shooting frames, with the focus & lens angle correctly located relative to your rifle, don't change focus. That only occurs when you use standard frames.

 

[Dans40X]

Bifocal contact lenses!
Set each eye as you prefer.

Less expensive than eyeglass frames w/o lenses these days of greed & inflation.

 

[nmkid]

Of course you could always go in to see if you are a good fit for Lasik.

 

[ireload2]

I am both a frequent skeet shooter and a rifle shooter - both scoped and aperture sights.
I hate heavy lens and frames so I wear a very light Marchon Autoflex 61 frame. Recoil of the shotgun tends to make standard temple frames bounce and slip down your nose so I use a strap connecting the temples behind my head. I wear this all the time so I do not lose my glasses staring down into an engine bay or any other place where you tilt your head down. My prescription is a Zeiss varifocal and it is the closest thing I have ever seen to wearing no glasses.

 

[Lapua40X]

I wear tri-focals. Top for distance, center for computer, lower for reading.
Works great ..................

 

[Shynloco]

It pains me to read of your misfortune with the lawnmower incident. I know and have experienced the horrors and discomfort of not having your glasses to see through. For me, whenever I see my Optometrist, I tell him of my shooting hobby as well and ask for bi-focals. I've worn bi-focals for years and never shoot without them. Just part of a regular/consistent part of setting up to shoot.

Alex

 

[acloco]

Does the optometrist offer first or second focal plane lenses?

 

[Boyd L.]

.....Do any of you blind shooters have any suggestions as to what I should tell the optometrist and what I should look for in a good pair of shooting glasses that will be used for the other purposes?
Safety is a concern.
Thanks

I'm primarily a smallbore silhouette shooter. I informed my optometrist that I wished to shoot with glasses with a prescription like my bifocals that I wear daily. I was asked to bring my rifle into the office and upon arrival I was asked to build my shooting position while the tech made the essential measurements to ensure fit and the correct view of the reptile/target.
Let your optometrist know your intended use and ask that whatever else is done that you be assured your glasses are suitable for your shooting discipline.

 

[mac86951]

Does the optometrist offer first or second focal plane lenses?

I have my optometrist etch 10s and Xs I to the glass ahead of time for all who read my score... I'm not to bifocals yet, and have found soft contacts manageable given that I'm careful and develop a blinking technique to go with breathing. Choose standard over astigmatism if possible or it'll be a lot more work.

 

[snakepit]

I wear progressive lenses & had trouble looking through different parts of the lens that affected my shooting. I went to wearing safety glasses & adjusted the scope for my eyes. My scores have improved since doing this.

This is exactly what I do and I have had the same results, both short and long range.

 

[bugman]

I have gone thru this problem for the last 3 prescriptions. I can only speak for my eyes , but it was a trial-and-error process for me.

Started off with a separate pair with just a distance lens for the range (my normal Rx is bifocals). This worked when using the scope, but every time I had to dial a different elevation or windage I couldn't see the turret hash marks...so, I had to have the bifocal Rx handy and switch glasses. Not good!

The next Rx, I tried progressive lens. With progressive bifocals I had a some problems getting the same clear/consistent sight picture thru the scope. There is a blurry area in that transitional area of the lens between the distance part of the lens and the magnified part of the lens. Anyway, at least I didn't have to change glasses to change elevation. OK, but not perfect!

The third Rx has worked fine for me. I switched to a older style/standard bifocal lens (with the visible line on the lens). This RX also has the magnified part of the lens moved to a slightly different position...so I have more lens to use when I look thru the scope. So far so good!

The moral of this for me was that there is no "best" or same way to do this for every shooter. It may take you a few times to find what works. People with a natural 20/20 ,or better, should thank their lucky stars.


Jack

 

[Macropod]

Forget about progressive lenses for shooting... Been there, it was hopeless. I looked at Lasik and decided at the consultation to avoid it as currently my vision corrected is better than 20/20.

I asked the Lasik practitioner why he didn't have the procedure done as he was short sighted. He was kind of lost for words so that made my decision very easy.

 

[JohnKielly]

I asked the Lasik practitioner why he didn't have the procedure done as he was short sighted. He was kind of lost for words so that made my decision very easy.

The other issue with Lasik is if later you have to have cataract surgery, measuring your eye for the new lens is quite problimatic.

 

[6MMsteve]

I have progressive lenses I went through 3 scopes sending them back saying they would not focus, I finally found out it was my glasses so now I use a older pair with a plain lense, I can see clearly now the rain is gone. the progressive lenses cost me a little money and heartache from buying and selling scopes when progressive lenses caused the issue.

 

[BMW]

The other issue with Lasik is if later you have to have cataract surgery, measuring your eye for the new lens is quite problimatic.

I had cataract surgery before my 50th B-day. Optometrist took ill (ended up dying) and his ophthalmologist buddy was filling in for him. He made the comment that in five to ten years I'd need cataract surgery. I wish someone would have said something 5-10 years sooner.

Why wait, it's only going to get worse.

 

[6_5_284]

Sorry to hear about your problem. I offer the following F.Y.I..

I have blind in one eye since birth. Fortunately it is my non-shooting eye. I have worn glasses since pre-school age and am currently 70. I have needed glasses to correct acuity and astigmatism all my life and have been wearing trifocals for about 15 years. I have shot in nearly every shooting sport at one time or another over the years; confining my shooting to longrange benchrest for the last several years. There is "no perfect solution".

If you would wear glasses only for shooting......have the optical center for you vision ground where you look through the lens (I have done that in the past and only used them for shooting). But, then you will need another pair of glasses for every day use. If you wear want to wear glasses for everything...........I suggest trifocals. Though not perfect clarity for shooting (they work well enough for me).

Good luck......keep them in the X-ring.