Eyeglasses and hunting

Ognat

Ognat

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I recently got progressive lenses (kinda like bifocals to you younger types). I am having a real hard time using them to shoot because there is a fairly limited area in the center of the lens where you get 100% clear vision and the upper sides of the lenses are blurry.

No problem with a scope but when you sight open sights you are looking to the side, through the non-optimum part of the lens.

What do you fellow sufferers wear? Contacts? (then I need reading glasses in the field). Prescription lenses for distance only (then I need glasses just for hunting???).

Og
 
I'm stuck with glasses also :( Can't shoot worth a damn with my contacts :( And being on the wrong side of 40, I'll be getting the new style bifocals shortly :cry: Short of surgery, there aren't many options left...
 
I am thinking my next safety glasses from work will be old-fashioned bifocals instead of progressives if they dont have the peripheral vision limitations. Take it from me, it is a pain.
 
I had cataract surgery a year or so ago so I can forget about the eye naturally focusing. But it is sure nice to have better than 20/20 vision.

I got a set of bifocals(non-progressives) and they work well for shooting and hunting. I had to re-focus all my scopes and iron sights can be a bit of a pain but.......................
 
Another shooter stuck with glasses as well . As much help as they are they can be a real pain in the a**. Especially shooting long distance in a mist of rain is next to impossible. When I was shooting more competativly my eye doctor knew and when my lenses were ordered he did so that I had 20/10 in my shooting eye for a bit more clearity. Seemed to work for me !!!!!
 
Ognat,

My wife is an Optometrist (Eye Doctor) and I am well versed in the business. Progressives (aka Invisible bifocals) try and give you the best of both worlds, which is always a compromise. Generally when we drive we are looking in the center midsection of the glasses, we don't look up to see far away. Looking down we read the dash with the reading perscription. Hunting is another animal altogether...... we look down and up in the distance. Some people move their head to see up and down while others just shift their eyes. Both change the way you look through your lenses. I do not use bifocals but for hunting, if I were you I would have your Optometrist make your a specific pair of "shooting glasses" in distance perscription that are tinted Serengetti Orange-Brown or Yellow to enhance low light and reduce glare. They also protect your eyes. Unless the Deer is wearing a t-shirt with small print, than you are ok!!! :lol:

Now golfing is another sport that requires special glasses for you bifocal wearers.... You must see down to putt as well as look downrange. Your optometrist will "tweak" your distance perscription to try and get the best of both worlds using a Single Vision perscription. This type of single vision perscription can be used for shooting as well. BTW... Try and use Progressives while skeet or trap shooting! :shock:

Talk to your Eye Doctor and tell him/her what you need for sports.... I set up patients with golf and shooting glasses all the time. They are really surprised to find a fellow hunter in the doctor's office.... :D

I hope this helps.
 
When I first got bifocals I couldn't figure why I couldn't hit anything with a shotgun, unless I was wearing my sunglasses-single vision. I also found I had to move my head continually when sitting on a stand.
I got a pair of single vision lenses put in my old frames without the bifocal and yellow tinted the work GREAT!
 
I have worn glasses for a number of years, and tried the progressive thing .
Danged near threw my neck out trying to focus!!
You see, I am a scaffolder, and make my living in the air .
Our trade involves requires nimble footedness(tech term) and agility.
Since I am not a Kung Fu master and need my vision to walk on 2" tubes and narrow steel, this type of lens is crap.
I went back to single vision and two sets of glasses, one for reading and one for everything else, shooting included.

My partner at work just recently got bifocals, the old school type, but he got the eye doctor to make the lower lens very small, so he doesn't get screwed up when we are in the air working, as it stays out of his vision.
However, if he does need to measure something or read, all he has to do is look down through the lower lens of the glasses.
I am going to try some, as he has had his for a few months and says the they are the answer!
Cat
 
Thanks, fellow mid-lifers.

The answer is clear, I will have to get a set of glasses for shooting / hunting. Hopefully I can recycle an old frame.

Og
 
Getting surgery on wednesday at Gimbel ...... no more glasses......no more $3000 cash either but
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...............Randy, please PM me with an update as i have been tossing this around. Its either a new sled or new eyes!!! :lol:


...................Hope everything goes well.

Mark :D
 
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Hey Ognat! Who You calling a "mid-lifer"!!!!!??? I am 34 years old!!! :evil: :lol: :lol:

Good luck with your new glasses...[/quote]

OK, not you. I mean those other guys with thinning grey hair trying to find their way through the woods by feeling for a familiar tree because their bifocals are fogged.

Og
 
I wear progressives, and have for several years. I have not had the problems that seem to plague some of my fellow shooters here on this thread. However, That does not mean I like glasses. I HATE them! they steam up at unopportune times and are a general nuisance. At 60, I would just love to be able to toss them away. Maybe the surgery is the way to go. Regards, Eagleye.
 
I recently changed my progressive bifocals to a smaller size lens. I'm ok with a scope but I can not shoot good groups with my bow. I changed over to "single vision" lenses and now everything is fine. I now take the "spare" eyeglasses with me whenever I go hunting.
 
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