Lensholder to replace shooting glasses for rifle shooters!

[Tesro Inc]

For us shooters who wear prescription glasses there is an extra item on our checklist of things that need to work and align with our rifle or pistol. Most of us have been using special shooting glasses that can be adjusted to our position and hold of our firearm.
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If you are a rifle shooter you should also consider the glass holder that are now ISSF approved and available from various manufacturers.
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One example is the MEC Monocle which is easy to attach between your eye piece and body of your rear sight.
It lines up nicely with the line of sight and replaces a set of shooting glasses and is ISSF approved.





The AHG mono frame has a similar concept but caters to a wider variety of rear sights and shooting disciplines.
(Note: Not for ISSF)

 

[Zeuster56]

I think I'll stick with my monocle for now........

 

[megahurts]

Question that hopefully doesn’t derail this post - the alternative specialized corrective shooting glasses you mention ... where does one find them and an optician that knows how to deal with them?

 

[CaptainHook]

Heh,

Pretty cool concept, but dismouting and remounting the device seems more complicated then getting presciption safety glasses (and probably costs the same). I may be wrong, but it also looks pretty flimsy.

 

[Hoodwink]

Seems very easily broken.

 

[Tesro Inc]

Question that hopefully doesn’t derail this post - the alternative specialized corrective shooting glasses you mention ... where does one find them and an optician that knows how to deal with them?

@megahurts We sell them as well, you can check out our selection here: Shooting Glasses and Lens Holders

 

[Tesro Inc]

Heh,

Pretty cool concept, but dismounting and remounting the device seems more complicated then getting prescription safety glasses (and probably costs the same). I may be wrong, but it also looks pretty flimsy.

It sits on the sight. So if your sight is getting banged up, you are right not am ideal setup. However, if you take care of your sight and take it off and on for transport it should be no problem. Also, if you are shooting one position, it will always be in an ideal place relative to the peep sight. On the other hand the glasses are always on the right position relative to your eye. So really depends on the preference. Lots of folks use both depending on the application.

 

[apage2112]

I went with LASIK. No more prescription anything.

 

[megahurts]

I went with LASIK. No more prescription anything.

Sigh, yeah I did that too and it was good for over 20 years but now I have progressives AND contacts don’t work well with my post surgery eyes. I am looking for glasses that I can have a normal lens in one eye and an adjustable lens in the ‘sight’ eye.

@tesro - thanks for the link, I looked at the glasses you have but do you have anything like what I mention above?

 

[AOWM]

Seems very easily broken.

Great criticism, hopefully it’s adressed because I like the idea of a light weight vision correcting 0x sight.

 

[Tesro Inc]

Sigh, yeah I did that too and it was good for over 20 years but now I have progressives AND contacts don’t work well with my post surgery eyes. I am looking for glasses that I can have a normal lens in one eye and an adjustable lens in the ‘sight’ eye.

@tesro - thanks for the link, I looked at the glasses you have but do you have anything like what I mention above?

Give us a call or send us an email with your number and we will call you to discuss and we can see if there is anything that would work for you. I have spent myself considerable amount of time trying out different things as I do not have s set of perfect eyes and shooting iron sights is tough without proper correction.

 

[Tesro Inc]

Great criticism, hopefully it’s adressed because I like the idea of a light weight vision correcting 0x sight.

Hey AOWM, see my comment above. From the folks that I know no one had one broken that I know of. However that being said, if the sight is getting banged up this might not be the best choice. There are other options that go right in the sight, but they are not something that you can use a custom corrective lens. Also, there is another product that follows the same principle and which is much beefer, but also comes with higher price. optical cap winner 10-10 lens holder for rear sightl. Some guys really like this one, but it is pricey.