Prescription Shooting Glasses ? ? ?

Ron Foster

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Does anyone know where I might be able to source shooting glasses that hold a clear prescription lens and have several interchangable coloured lenses to fit over them? I believe that I saw such an item on the EE forum once but when I went back for a second look they were gone.
 
Randolph ranger make these. Google Morgan optical in OLean Ny. Call WAyne, he is very helpful and probably the best in the US. They will ship to Canada. I have been very happy with mine. Ken
 
I have a set by bolle, and a set from Rudy project. I will never buy interchangebles again. I will get a set of Vermillion coloured HyWyds or something similar. The coloured lenses fall out of the bolle's and the Rudy's have to sit crooked on my face to counter act my astigmatism. AND they were most of 800 per set, For 1600 bucks i can get lots of pairs of lenses for a hywyd frame have single vision safety glasses coloured to my choosing.

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If you get the Pilla (or whichever) inserts, might be worthwhile getting the frames alone and the lenses made by your local lens people (whoever makes your regular glasses), works out to the same cost. It's useful to have the option of moving the optical centers from dead center to where you look for your game. I ended up going in with my gun to the optometrist and having the tech figure out where the optical centers had to be based on my mount, final placement was a lot higher and over to the left, almost a quarter of the length of the lens away from the center.

They have the option for top-frame or bottom frame inserts (the one they show in the link).

My cost: 5-lens set with Panther Post was $600, plus $50 for the prescription frames, then the prescription lenses were $300 but this was covered by insurance. I've since added two more lens colours.

Interchangeables are nice when you shoot a lot of different backgrounds for tournaments and a lot of different light conditions, otherwise maybe a dedicated pair might do.

EDIT: I know a guy on the Canadian Olympic skeet team who says inserts and prescription lenses tend not to work for skeet since you have to look back at the house while holding your head at the pickup point, and there is a lot of distortion at the edges of vision (no matter the brand of glasses). Not sure if this is applicable to you but another aspect to consider if you skeet.
 
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Scroll down to the bottom of the page on this link and click on Randolph Engineering Ranger Shooting Frames and Lenses. Maybe there is someone in Nova Scotia that could get these for you? I have no idea how these compare to other brands...just passing some extra info your way!

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Try contacting Decot in Arizona. Take a look at what they offer on Ebay (search for Decot HyWyd), write down what you are interested in, then contact them over the phone.

I wanted a pair of prescription lenses for my frames last summer and did not know precisely which frame size I had, so I called them up. They went to the filing cabinet and pulled my file from 1988 and told me exactly what I had. I then e-mailed them my prescription and about 10 days or so later I had my lenses. Less than half the price of having an optician get the same lenses in for me (local company deals with Decot, just orders lenses the same as I did, then adds a mark-up).

More than 20 years and I still really like the glasses. Additional lenses just click solidly into place.
 
Depending on your Rx strength, there's always Oakley glasses, including some of the wrap around sport frames. They're polycarbonate and rated for ANSI Z87.1.
 
I got mine from Next Optical in Oakville, couldn't be happier. Bifocal lenses so I can read or do things at the bench without bringing my reading glasses with me. They sit quite high so I don't look out the top of the glasses when shooting anymore and they don't slip down. Just ordered a second set of lenses, lots of colours to choose from, very pleased.
 
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