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Hi All,
I figured this would be a good place to ask this question as obviously we have a bunch of hunters/shooters here and a few must wear glasses.
Here is what I have going on.I am 48 and far sighted.I have minor corrections for distance but definitely need correction for reading.
I am left eye dominant but shoot right handed. I should have changed to shooting left handed years ago.
Scopes are not a problem without glasses. The problem arises when shooting pistols mainly but also open sighted rifles. I have bifocals so I can either tip my head back and see the sights and not the target or use the distant part and see the target but the sights are out of focus.
I shoot a few IPSC matches a year and keep forgetting to ask the folks there what they are doing when it comes to glasses.
I just wondered how you guys deal with this issue.
Thank you very much in advance.
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Anxious to see the responses to this. I wear bifocals and am far sighted and haven't come up with a truly good solution yet�hopefully someone else fills us in.
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Have your Doc give you a prescription to focus on your front sight distance and call DeCot and have em put that in a bifocal in the top of your lense.
I think they show that on their website.
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Have your Doc give you a prescription to focus on your front sight distance and call DeCot and have em put that in a bifocal in the top of your lense.
I think they show that on their website. That is what many older IPSC shooters do.
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I've been using the Merit adjustable disk on my progressive lenses for about two years. Not the most convenient things but they will stick to your glasses for at least 2-3 hours, I've never had them on longer than that, and you can rotate it out of the way when you're not immediately using it. I mount it so I'm looking out of the top (far) half of my lens so the target is in clear focus, then the aperture lets me see the handgun sights in sharp focus as well. My handgun groups were shot to hell but now that I can see the sights again I can lay them in there like I used to. It also works well for peep sights on rifles with shorter barrels, like a 20" .30-30. It brings that front sight into sharp focus. Again, it's more for range wear, for the field you can use a red dot or reflex sight with your normal lenses or even unaided if your far vision is still good. I'm not sure how well they'd work for fast shooting like an IPSC match, they seem to be better suited for stationary target work but it might be worth trying. ![[Linked Image]](http://www.meritcorporation.com/images/steve_with_oa.jpg)
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I have the same issue but 11 years older.. Got some trifocals, but they do not seem to help. I can either have the sights clear or the target, I prefer the sights to be clear with the target just fuzzy. Rifles I can still do OK, it is the pistols that cause the problems. In the younger years the sights were clear and the target clear enough to see the 10 ring clearly. Shotguns well....... Must be that left eye dominate thing.
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My glasses have graduated lenses. All I have to do is tilt my head slightly and everything comes into focus. Have been using this type of glasses for years.
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Went thru this the past year when I decided to use an open peep for Deer hunting some days. At first I thought it wasn't going to work, but eventually I learned to look thru the peep. The front will center itself in the peep if you just let it happen. The front bead isn't all that sharp, but don't let it bother you. Just paste it on the target and squeeze the trigger. Didn't get a chance to use it on a Deer, but I have little doubt it would have worked for big game. If you are only referencing pistols or competition target shooting probably not all that well. A 100 yard target once I got the hang of it. At closer woods ranges misses would have been on me, though early and late would have been a problem. And I would absolutely love to be 48 again.  Rifle fit is really important to have everything line up subconsciously. This was from an old pre 64 Model 70 whose stock was originally designed for open sights. Certainly wouldn't win any competition prize, but better than good enough for big game. ![[Linked Image]](http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff242/toby0223/IMG_0677_zps094c3114.jpg)
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Right on. A big peep and a bead don't need no sharp, clear edges to work.
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I have the same issue but 11 years older.. Got some trifocals, but they do not seem to help. I can either have the sights clear or the target, I prefer the sights to be clear with the target just fuzzy. Rifles I can still do OK, it is the pistols that cause the problems. In the younger years the sights were clear and the target clear enough to see the 10 ring clearly. Shotguns well....... Must be that left eye dominate thing. That's how I handle it when that merit aperture is too much trouble. Just lean my head back and use the near focus portion of the progressive lens to get the sights sharp. You can still hit center mass of larger targets like ringers or such, although smaller targets like soda cans or shotshells at 25 yards can be a little tough to see. Between sight alignment and sight picture, sight alignment is the most critical. If you can't see both the target and sights in focus, focus on the sights.
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Find an optometrist that is a hunter/shooter. He can fix you up with a prescription that will enable you to focus on sights and close targets. They may be a bit blurry but workable. Mine even works with rifles and although a 100 yard target gets blurred, I can still shoot fairly well.
For handguns alone, you might try some cheap Walmart 150's. This will put your reading vision out about 2 -3 ft. If they work, you can get some glue on with just water to fit on your shooting glasses. You put them on the center where they end up looking like a misplaced bifocal. They are usually some where around the pharmacy at about $7.
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Agreed - a custom lens that lets you see the front sight is the only way to go with handguns. Bud Decot's outfit does a great job and has for lo these many years. My own choice has been http://tacticalrx.com/ Fully-Custom Shooting, Tactical, and Outdoor Sport glasses. Options including glasses with an alternative lens to snap in and out. In your circumstances with mixed dominance I'd probably shoot a handgun right handed left eyed. Regardless I'd be using glasses that I had full confidence in for eye protection.
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Nearsighted all my life and wearing glasses since i was 13. Now 66.
So the cataracts were developing and the Eye Doc said: Good news is you will not need any more glasses. Bad news is you need lens implants.
Just completed the surgery: First eye 4 weeks ago, second eye 3 weeks ago. Installed distance lenses.
Ha! Can see an elk 1000 yards away. Front sight of a rifle is in perfect focus. Rear sight is just a little fuzzy. Reading the computer monitor now without any glasses at all. Aperture sight is perfect. Use cheapie reading glasses for up close fine work such as reading a micrometer.
And the colors are much better now, things looked a dingy yellowish brown in the past.
Only about $2000 per eye. My insurance paid most of it, only had a $200 co-pay per eye.
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I wear progressives and I am have all kinds of trouble clearly seeing the crosshairs in my high x scopes. 24x is the top end. Raising my head to use the progressive lense is out. My reading glasses are no help either.The side focus sightron scope will not compensate enough to fix the problem. I hate the fact that I cannot see well enough to shoot up to my potential. Really frustrated with it.
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Others have said it and I'll echo it; get a prescription that focuses at arms length. If you need bifocals, get the near vision bottoms too.
I had a pair of glasses made for computer work that focus at about 2-2 1/2' and one day I got a wild hair and took some of my handguns out and tried it. They worked like a champ when shooting at about 25 yards or so because they forced me to focus on the sights. Doesn't work as well at longer ranges though.
If I don't happen to have those glasses with me, I tilt my head back and use the near vision lenses of my bifocals. It's a bit awkward but it works better than the distance part of the lenses.
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I went to graduated lineless bi-focal lenses a number of years ago. They work real good for pistol and Iron sight rifles.
I ran into the problem of getting out of the distance part and into the reading part when shooting scoped rifles from the bench. Made focusing a real bummer at times.
My cure to that was to have a pair of glasses made with the distance correction only when they had one of those buy one get one free things. (Free they weren't) So now when I go to a match or hunting, I wear the ones with no reading, when shooting pistol or iron rifle I use my normal glasses and everything works well.
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Nearsighted all my life and wearing glasses since i was 13. Now 66.
So the cataracts were developing and the Eye Doc said: Good news is you will not need any more glasses. Bad news is you need lens implants.
Just completed the surgery: First eye 4 weeks ago, second eye 3 weeks ago. Installed distance lenses.
Ha! Can see an elk 1000 yards away. Front sight of a rifle is in perfect focus. Rear sight is just a little fuzzy. Reading the computer monitor now without any glasses at all. Aperture sight is perfect. Use cheapie reading glasses for up close fine work such as reading a micrometer.
And the colors are much better now, things looked a dingy yellowish brown in the past.
Only about $2000 per eye. My insurance paid most of it, only had a $200 co-pay per eye.
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Thank you all for the ideas. I think I will have to go with a prescription that focuses at arms length. I will check out Decotts and Tactical RX.
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I'm in the same boat you are regarding dominance and farsightedness. I'm not to the bifocal stage yet, The eye doc says I'm 20/15, but I need reading glasses, and I have astigmatism. I actually found a Navy eye doc that made me a pair of glasses that takes care of focus issues and the astigmatism at front sight length. With those glasses one, the front sight is very sharp and I can still see the target well. My shooting has improved with them.
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I've been using the Merit adjustable disk on my progressive lenses for about two years. Not the most convenient things but they will stick to your glasses for at least 2-3 hours, I've never had them on longer than that, and you can rotate it out of the way when you're not immediately using it. I mount it so I'm looking out of the top (far) half of my lens so the target is in clear focus, then the aperture lets me see the handgun sights in sharp focus as well. My handgun groups were shot to hell but now that I can see the sights again I can lay them in there like I used to. It also works well for peep sights on rifles with shorter barrels, like a 20" .30-30. It brings that front sight into sharp focus. Again, it's more for range wear, for the field you can use a red dot or reflex sight with your normal lenses or even unaided if your far vision is still good. I'm not sure how well they'd work for fast shooting like an IPSC match, they seem to be better suited for stationary target work but it might be worth trying. Jim, my 72 year-old eyes have the same problems that I've reduced by using the Merit adjustable disk on my progressive lenses. Great improvement for military rifle and pistol shooting! The only issue I've encountered is keeping he suction disc attached to my glasses; have you had this issue?
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