Prescription Shooting Glasses

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Putting Safety glasses over my prescription bi-focals is really not the most comfortable but works off the bench - sort of. For hunting applications or plinking this does not work though.
Any recommendations or sources for prescription safety glasses in the Vancouver area?
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It's a long story but I got a prescription insert for my shooting glasses. They are bifocal and optimized for the front sight on my pistols and work well for those. The downside is that they are terrible for my optic fitted rifles. PM me is you want the details.

Gord
 
Call "Decot", get their shooting guy and give him your particulars. They know better than most optometrists how to tweak your script for effective shooting.
 
I take a slide with me and draw up an explanation of the challenge. Many if not most don't understand the challenge of shooting with corrective lenses. I have old eyes and minor astigmatism which even when corrected makes the reticle of my Eotech fuzzy. The same is true for the etched reticle of my Leupold scope. So far my only solution is two sets of glasses which is a pain when shooting more than one gun in competitions. I've learned the solution but that doesn't make it applicable for both pistol and rifle.
 
rollie100 said:
I'm going to try these guys for my next prescription of safety glasses... h ttp://www.proopticalsafetyrx.com/index.cfm?action=products
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I've bought a couple of pairs of Airrage's from them. Very good people to deal with. I was talking to one of their guys the other day and they are selling about 400 pairs a month to the oilpatch workers now.

I have a pair of polarized sunglasses and another pair with transition lenses. $280 for my first pair and $180 for the second.

The foam insert is removable.

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Do any of you guys have an eye dominance issue because of prescription glasses? I'm right handed and with no glasses on right eye dominant. If I put the glasses on I become left eye dominant. Not too much of an issue when shooting pistol, just crank your head over a bit. When it comes to shooting shotgun it's a whole different kettle of fish. I can't keep both eyes open for trap or skeet.
 
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Do any of you guys have an eye dominance issue because of prescription glasses? I'm right handed and with no glasses on right eye dominant. If I put the glasses on I become left eye dominant. Not too much of an issue when shooting pistol, just crank your head over a bit. When it comes to shooting shotgun it's a whole different kettle of fish. I can't keep both eyes open for trap or skeet.
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I don't have the dominance issue to deal with but maybe something I did will give you a clue. Currently this applies to my pistols only. I got a set of lined bifocals made with the reading portion lower than usual. Therefor the line doesn't distract me. I'm right eye dominant. For the right lens, we optimized for the front sight. The distance from my eye to the front sight is approximately 24 inches. I wanted the FS to be sharp but the RS out of focus. So the upper portion of the lens has a near focus of about 20 inches out to distance. My FS is sharp as is the target when I focus on it. The left lens being none dominant is ground "normally". This works very well for the pistols and I keep both eyes open. My rifles are a different matter and I will be looking for a set of lenses for use with my scopes. Maybe this sort of thing in shooting glasses would avoid the dominance shift.
 
My main shooting glasses are ESS. Three lenses and a "rubber" inner frame for the prescription lenses. About $90 for the set and maybe $35 more for the frame. I think they are called "Cross bow"

I just bought three set of safety classes that fit over my day frames. For $7 each I'm really impressed. They fit well and are comfortable. At the price it's hard to lose so I got clear, tinted and yellow lenses.

Elvex OVR-Spec II Safety Glasses

Very fast service from : Safety Glasses USA
 
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