Prescription Glasses For Pistol Shooting

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Lef T

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Well,I'm at that age in life where I need bifocal glasses for distance and close up sighting.
I wear progressive lenses,but have to tilt my head back to pick up a clear sight picture wearing my current glasses.
This is a proverbial pain in the neck.
I tried shooting with my glasses on,upside down(don,t laugh)
and by doing this,didn,t have to tilt my head back.
By raising my head slightly I could then use the distance part of my bifocal to see clearly downrange.
Anyone have shooting glasses made up in this configuration?
I then had my optician make me a pair of glasses with just close up sighting lenses in the glasses ,so that I could get a clear picture of my sights,but then the target at 50 feet was a little more blurry than I wanted.
If this post sounds confusing,you are probably too young to understand an aging guys predicament.
Anybody wearing prescription shooting glasses have any advice.
 
I have delt with an optician here in Edmonton called Barry Nolt who is also a shooter. He has specialised in glasses for all sorts of shooters.

You should try to contact him and discuss your needs and I am sure he will be able to tell you what options exist.
 
We are now offering prescription lenses for the Wiley X glasses I carry however I would have to see if they can do bifocals.
 
I'm in the same situation, wearing bifocals. I've tried every configuration of glasses and lenses, but nothing seems to cover all the bases.
Two options that DO work are: Holographic red dot sight or Fiber-Optic sights. If you shoot IPSC, it means shooting either Open or Standard, but so what...
What I did try with a bit of success was a pair of el cheapo drug store single-prescription reading glasses (+1.25 iirc), which gave a crisp front sight picture, but a wee bit of a fuzzy target. But that's how the sight picture SHOULD be ideally, right? For the sake of $25 it's worth trying. If it works, get some properly made shooting glasses in the same power. Don't wear them in between shooting stages, though, as they will give you a headache. Bit of a pain changing glasses all day, but at least you can hit the target. :)
 
Hakim Optical will do prescription safety glasses up, starting at ~$100. Bifocals would probably be more.
 
Thanks for the advice so far.
I looked at the Decot website and had also looked at Barry Nolts website.
I put a call into Barry,and am awaiting his return call.
Man, sometimes it sucks being a 17 year old,trapped in a 52 year old body.
Anyways,it seems Barry comes highly recommended.
I look forward to speaking with him.
 
bi focals

I had the same problem. I tried bifocal for dominant eye only, then finaly settled with mono lenses. I'm right eye dominant and what is really working well for me is, the Rx for my dominant eye is perfect clear using thumb at full arms distance, and other eye for long distance. ( some how the brain makes things look ok ) I shoot standard class IPSC using steel sights only and made GM with this system. If you want more info please pm me.
 
Lef T said:
Thanks for the advice so far.
I looked at the Decot website and had also looked at Barry Nolts website.
I put a call into Barry,and am awaiting his return call.
Man, sometimes it sucks being a 17 year old,trapped in a 52 year old body.
Anyways,it seems Barry comes highly recommended.
I look forward to speaking with him.
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I went with Decot. They had an interesting and , for me, effective way of dealing with the bifocal/pistol issue. If I've got this right, they reduced the power in the right (sighting) eye by 1/2 the value of the bifocal power. Anyhow, best talk to them. The result of this was no apparent compromise in distance vision, excellent ability to acquire sights and no $ spent for bifocals. Like you've said, it pays to talk with opticians who also shoot. They understand our problems better.
 
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