Shooter glasses recommendations

Check these out.....

https://sspeyewear.com/collections/top-focal-tactical

If your eye are bad, you can get magnification up top where your sights are in the glasses.

Someone here recommended them to me about a year ago, and they work great. I wear them as my sun/safety glasses too.

Copper lenses if you like the blue blockers too (my favorite).

I wouldnt buy the whole set. Buy the frames and lenses you need.

I prefer a clear lens on my weak side and the magnification on the strong side. Less distraction when shooting with both eyes open.

I keep meaning to ask them if I can get sets like that, otherwise, you have to buy a set of magnified and a set of clear.

Do you need scrip lenses?

I needed glasses for shooting that fit over eyeglasses. In the thread
? Shooting Glasses Over Eyeglasses?
I got several excellent suggestions from THR members with links to specific products, searching for OTG safety instead of shooter glasses.
I bought a clear pair from one vendor, and a yellow lens pair from another. Each was under $20. I like both and they work just fine.
You don't really need to spend $200 for "shooter" glasses when good safety glasses work.
Even though these are shaped to fit over spectacles, they work fine for regular wear. At the prices given, you may find it worth gambling a few bucks to see if they work for you.

I wear cheap readers (dollar store) when shooting. That way when brass puts a nick in them it doen't bother me too throw them away.
There's also cheap safety glasses with magnification. I get them off of Amazon and use them for power tools. Now that I'm writing this I think I'll get some for the range.

The problem with the readers is, they get in the way of your safety glasses, dont generally stay where you need them, and they basially put everything out of focus or into a fuzz, past arms length. I tried using mine that way first, and it was a piss porr solution.

The safety glasses Ive seen with the magnification put the focal where a normal bi focal would be and are about impossible to shoot with, as you have to hold your head back at at an angle that really doesnt work.

Those "top focal" lenses, put the magnification at the top of the lens, right where you need it and where youre looking when you look for the sights.

Ive found that they work very well, but that you do need to keep the off eye unmagnified, if you want to shoot both eyes open, and be able to see the target clearly (or at least, less distorted than if that lense were magnified), and the sights sharp.

I wear mine as my sun and safety glasses, so I always have them with me, and mostly on. That way, I always have clear sights, should I ever need them.

The readers I use are full size glasses, not the granny glasses
You can get the safety glasses with magnification across the full size lenses. I have them.

MrChicken said:

The readers I use are full size glasses, not the granny glasses
You can get the safety glasses with magnification across the full size lenses. I have them.

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So what happens to everything beyond arms length when you use them? Doesnt it drive you nuts with everything else fuzzed out of focus?

stonebuster said:

I'm looking for a pair of anti-fog shooter's glasses for indoor/outdoor in the $100 range. My eyesight is poor and yellow/amber tinted sun glasses help brighten things up(like the old blue blockers). Any recommendations?

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My normal prescription glasses are OSHA and I get polycarbonate lenses. Good to go for shooting glasses. Something to think about if you will eventually get prescription glasses anyways.

SharpDog said:

My normal prescription glasses are OSHA and I get polycarbonate lenses. Good to go for shooting glasses.

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I thought the same thing about my specs, until .45ACP brass spit out of my 1911 and left a tiny white divot RIGHT in my field of vision. That is what prompted me to seek decent OTG glasses, as noted in my earlier post.

Craig_VA said:

I thought the same thing about my specs, until .45ACP brass spit out of my 1911 and left a tiny white divot RIGHT in my field of vision. That is what prompted me to seek decent OTG glasses, as noted in my earlier post.

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for OTG Coocoon carried good ones but you can get them cheaper in Walmart. Get the polarized type. The advantage to the Coccoons is that yellow / brown lenses are available.

AK103K said:

So what happens to everything beyond arms length when you use them? Doesnt it drive you nuts with everything else fuzzed out of focus?

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I wear +1.5 so I do loose some sharpness on distance vision but I gain a lot clarity where my sights are.

AK103K said:

So what happens to everything beyond arms length when you use them? Doesn't it drive you nuts with everything else fuzzed out of focus?

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Why I go the opposite of everyone else and focus on the target with the front site out of focus in my peripheral

George P said:

Why I go the opposite of everyone else and focus on the target with the front site out of focus in my peripheral

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The whole point of wearing the magnification is to sharpen and clear up the sights. Thats why I split the lenses with a clear lens on my left eye, and magnification on my right.

Trying to shoot with magnification on both was driving me nuts. I just messes with your brain.

Wearing the glasses with split lenses like that is actually an improvement over not wearing glasses at all too, as you actually see a clear/sharper target, and clear/sharp sights, something you normally cant do.

I practice with what I most likely would be wearing (at least out of the house) and those are distance scrip lenses

I have dedicated perscription shooting glasses that are standard gear for formal shooting events. They are Decot Hy-Wyde.(standard trapshooting equipment)

Often I do not dig them out of my shooting bag for informal shooting days. For those I have both bifocal and magnifying safety glasses from Amazon. They are great. I use them in the shop too. Cheap enough to keep in your shooting gear.

Armored farmer said:

I have dedicated perscription shooting glasses that are standard gear for formal shooting events. They are Decot Hy-Wyde.(standard trapshooting equipment)

Often I do not dig them out of my shooting bag for informal shooting days. For those I have both bifocal and magnifying safety glasses from Amazon. They are great. I use them in the shop too. Cheap enough to keep in your shooting gear.

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I use Randolph Rangers for tournaments, a medium purple tint

A word to the wise.....
When choosing your frames for your everyday prescription glasses.....dont forget that you are a SHOOTING ENTHUSIAST.
Get the frames that will work for you.(not the tiny stylish ones like I did!)

Last year THR members taught me about OTG (Over The Glasses) safety glasses to protect my spectacles. I've been wearing them since then. Recently, I learned that those meet OSHA impact standards, but not stricter MilSpec standards for harder impact. If you search the web for over-spec glasses you can turn up quite reasonably priced shooting glasses that meet the higher MilSpec impact standards, and may also be more comfortable worn under hearing protectors. My new Champion brand in clear and yellow arrived two days ago, and felt great at the range yesterday.

Uvex.

Check with MidwayUSA.com. and get a pair of Oakleys' They are on clearance and the price is right. I just ordered a pair for $59.00. Great price for these glasses.

https://www.zennioptical.com/search?keyphrase=Safety glasses&page=1

Prescription safety glasses with option for anti-fog coating, and pretty darn cheap

I have a had very good experience with Revant Optics for prescription lenses. https://www.revantoptics.com/

They will make a lens for about any frame you may own. I prefer Oakley Flak Jackets 2.0 vented. I have both clear lenses and sunglasses (polarized). I bought my frames cheap on Amazon (~$100) and set aside the lens that came with the frames as I wanted my prescription. I can shoot everything from my bow to Shotguns, Rifles and pistols indoors and outdoors (switch lenses).

They periodically run pretty good sales and I have managed to snag ~20-25% for mine. Very durable, great fit since you get to choose a frame that works well for you versus what I could find from my Dr and you can still use HSA/FSA dollars if you have them.