Sorry this isn't about optics exclusively but didn't know where else to post it.
I haven't been doing much shooting for a couple of years for a lot of reasons including the cost of replacement ammo and the scarcity of reloading components. I am starting to shoot my rifles, pistols and compound bow a lot more lately. I had forgot I enjoyed it so much and how good it is for me mentally, etc. At almost 66 my eyes aren't great. I have come to understand the wisdom that someone wrote in these forums about "buying expensive optics and trying to see them with your Walmart $69 for 2 pairs glasses". I am guilty of the Walmart glasses part before but I got new, expensive glasses this February after losing my Walmart specials in a car crash.
The first thing I am noticing is needing to reposition my glass before every shot. This is unacceptable and it is obvious that my glasses don't fit properly. I will get that addressed but I was thinking about a glasses strap to keep them in the same spot every time. I have thought about some of those prescription sport googles and use them for hunting and shooting. Has anyone tried those?
The bigger problem is I just seem to have more trouble seeing through the scope, for lack of better description or to focus on the pin in my bow sight. The pistol sights are about the same... I still suck with pistols beyond 10 yards or so. Maybe, my eyesight is getting worse but my new post crash prescription was not much different than old one. My prescription is progressive tri-focal. I see an eye doctor for general eye health and according to her my eyes are fine for a man my age, etc. I have asked her and a few different eye doctors about glasses and shooting but none seem to have any information or be willing to talk about it. I would think old astronomers would have the same kinds of issues. No?
In short my "shooting" eyesight seems to be worse with my new, semi expensive glasses when my eyesight hasn't changed according to the eye doctor and I don't know why. For other things my vision with the new glasses seems to be OK. I am hoping there is an eye doctor or someone reading that can enlighten me about selecting the best glasses (lens coatings to get or avoid, lens materials, etc.) for geezers that want to keep hunting and shooting. There seem to be a lot of variables.
