Prescription shooting glasses

Get a pair of safety glasses with 1.5 correction and see what it looks like....
That's what I use..
Probably less than $25...?

The rule of thumb is 0.75 diopters, but I highly recommend getting Dr. Alan Toler's Custom Sight Picture kit. Toler is double-Distinguished, rifle and pistol. He knows what he's doing...in my opinion, the best refractive guy for shooters on the East Coast.

Buck13 said:

I don’t like using progressive or bifocals for shooting. I have a pair of very old angle-vision glasses which happen to be somewhat weaker than my current prescription for nearsightedness (don’t know actual prescription for these), and they almost work.

i’d like to be able to more rationally design some shooting glasses, and have the option of purchasing new glasses. I’m trying to figure out how much under-correction will let me focus on the front side of a handgun without making distance vision TOO blurry. I had an eye exam recently and discussed this with my optometrist, and he measured about 1.25 diopters of under-correction for my front sight distance. Does that sound like too much, or does it seem reasonable?

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I'd have to know the whole Rx before I could effectively answer that question. Feel free to PM me your Rx, and I'll be glad to discuss this further.

9mmepiphany said:

What I went with was having the lens for my right eye (dominate) set for the the distance to the front sight and the lens for my left eye set for distance. The brain receives both images, blends them and presents one focused image. It is a little shocking at first to have everything in sharp focus, but you get used to it

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This does not work for everyone, but it is worth trying. Your OD or MD will be able to tell you if if might work for you.

I wear my progressive lenses for Rifle and pistol shooting. For pistol, I can just tip my head up a little, and I'm viewing through the intermediate focal length, and the front sight is clear, and the target is slightly fuzzy. For rifle I'm looking through the distance area of the lens, using either a red dot or scope-except for my milsurps which are getting harder to shoot with progressive lenses. I suppose I could use my shotgunning glasses, which are single vision, and have the optical centers raised to line up when I have the shotgun mounted. Haven't tried that yet.

I recommend giving these guys a call

https://www.morganoptical.net/

Definitely. Wayne knows his stuff. I've spent some time on the phone and texting back and forth with him about putting my Rx in a pair of Decots I picked up cheap. He convinced me I had better options, and will be ordering from them in the future.

Armored farmer said:

Get a pair of safety glasses with 1.5 correction and see what it looks like....
That's what I use..
Probably less than $25...?

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Yep, same here, but I can still make due with nothing if I need to. Minute of man anyway.

Here's the guys I use for my pistol shooting glasses:

http://rxsportoptics.com/

I also do the "mono-vision"; right eye set for front sight, left eye for distance. Apparently my brain can deal with it. The only issue I have with this set up is shooting close to barricades or portals where I can't use both eyes....

Some of the online eye glass retailers offer polycarbonate lenses that would work very well for shooting. Goggles4u has tons of inexpensive options.

After cataract surgery and installation of a distant-focus lens I purchased glasses with a 1.5D right (dominant) eye add and distant prescription for my left eye. I starting using these glasses for steel challenge and sure enough the front sight was in perfect focus. Steel Challenge involves very rapid transitions and at some point I realized that when the target/background contrast wasn't great I wasn't tracking accurately to the target: poor sun angle, tan direct background, white target with many black splatters. I tried my PCC glasses which have distant focus in both eyes and saw immediate improvement.

This is not a precision shooting discipline, but with the right amount of white space I can still align the sights quite accurately YMMV of course.