Eyeglasses issues Thoughts needed

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Hello,

I am trying to figure out how to aim better for target handgun shooting.

At the moment:
My left eye is my strong eye
I have progressive Bifocals (and they suck)
I have my left eye closed
I am shooting with my right hand and weak eye

I have a new pair of "line" bifocals which I can see the Front sight REALLY well however the target is WAY to blurry.

Now:
I am thinking that I should start to keep both eyes open use my left strong eye to aim and get the lens in my right eye changed to just a distance lens.

Questions:
Is there much of a disadvantage for me being right handed and left eyed?
Does anyone have the same issue, if so how are you dealing with the problem.

Would it be better to keep using my right weak eye and get the lens in my strong eye for the distance and not the sight.

Any other thoughts, ideas and advise would be great, as I'm going Nutz trying to figure this one out.


Thanks a Mill
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your problem is STATED: BIFOCALS- and the part the subtends is RIGHT AT your sight plane when you extend your arm with your gun= first, you always shoot with your DOMINANT eye- second, i've lost my front sight altogether and went to a holo-type , but a RED DOT will do just as well- it took a special mount from brownells, ( look under pistol mounts) and about a hundred bucks, but that red dot/holo/whatever suspends out there in space and makes your front sight IRRELEVANT- so it doesn't matter where it is- i get single lens prescriptions out of hk, and it's like 75 or so for 2 pair- it's amazing how many folks are cross-trained when they're really LEFTIES-but that's MUSCLE MEMORY, and really has to do with orientation moreso than your prescription; now you COULD get a stronger prescription for your RIGHT eye, and that would make it the dominant;your eyes will adapt; and maybe find a good eye guy- one that understands what you want; mine has tried to pull the bi/tri focal thing on me for years, and all i get are those single lens out of hong kong, and flip them up for close work, like they do sunglasses in california- or get single lenses and keep tem just for distance/shooting
 
Rubicon37s said:
Hello,

I am trying to figure out how to aim better for target handgun shooting.
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I have the same problem as you.
Right-handed shooter, left eye dominant.

Bi- and tri-focals didn't help.
I use my computer glasses (which are reading distance extended
to my computer screen which is an inch or two beyond my extended
right index when pointing. I like the distance for my computer and
it happens to be where my front sights -handguns- are.)

Front sight's in focus, blurry rear-sights and targets but that's what the Pros (and Advanced Amateurs) tell you to do.

I have a flip-up eye patch to cover my right-eye. It's opaque but the light is let in through the sides and I can keep both eyes open. No stress due to squinting or to amount of light changing.

Now, IF I could only keep my hand from shaking.......................
 
For shooting cross eye dominant it is easy with pistols. Try this, aim the pistol at your target, now put your chin to your right bicep. Your left eye will now be able to be the dominant eye for sigthing.

Whether or not that halps with your other issue, I cant say. Hope this helps.

Shawn
 
Thanks for all the good advise all. I am going to try my Dom eye with a bifocal and my right eye with out a lens first as my vision ok not all that bad for distance, along with some of the ideas above.

Cheers
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I invested $60 in a pair of pistol shooting glasses.

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Cheap frames. Plastic lens.

Non-shooting eye is a bifocal, so I can see the bullet holes in the target or clearly see the gun when loading, etc.

The shooting lens is similar to my computer lens. As we age, our eyes have less and less distance accomodation, so we need a lens to see things that are close.

My computer lens gives me a nice sharp focus at about 30". But I notice that I can also clearly see print on pages on my desk in front of the computer screen.

A handgun front sight is also about 30" from the shooting eye - BUT ther is no need to clearly see your cufflinks, watch or the hairs on your arm.

The shooting lens should be able to clearly see from 27" and beyond, so the target is not any more blurry than it has to be. In my case, the prescription for my shooting lens is about a half diopter weaker than my computer glasses.

There is no reason why both lenses could not be bi-focal. The line is well below the lens we look though to shoot. I skipped it on my shooting eye just to keep the cost down.

Of course, this set up only works for one eye. I have no experience with weak eye shooting.
 
When I first got back into shooting, I couldn't hit anything. The last time I got new glasses, style was had to be small (low). They were progressive lenses and the transition was right at the point of aim. Neither the sight or the target was clear. The next time I got glasses, I went with a larger lense and all of a sudden I was hitting the target. Much easier to deal with the sights being a little fuzzy and the target clear than have everything fuzzy.
Worked for me, I guess you just have to figure out what's best for you.
 
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