Eyeglasses

[bornintheeu]

Hello,
To make a long story short: my problem the aiming elements are slightly blurry and the target at 15 or 20 even more.
I heard: you have to put an iris, but it doesn't work or rather it doesn't work anymore.
Following research The VARIOLENS system might be a solution: who knows and can share their experience with me?
Third solution: wear eyeglasses with two different corrective lenses, directing eye with clear view on sighting elements and the other correction for target view.
Thanks to help me and share your experience.

 

[JTHunter]

It sounds as if you are "near-sighted" and can't see distant things clearly. If so, we have the same problem.
You say "15 or 20" and from your location, you probably mean "meters", correct? Or do you mean "feet"?
Over the years, I have learned in shooting handguns to let the front and rear sights be blurry and focus on your target. I just line up the sights on the gun up as best I can, then switch my focus to the target and fire. I have gotten to the point that this is nearly automatic but I am no "precision" shooter with handguns. And I avoid this problem entirely with rifles by using a scope. But there, I am shooting 100+ meters.

Good luck!

 

[patmccoy]

Try a cheap pair of reading glasses to get good focus on the front sight. Rear sight may be slightly blurred, and target will definitely be blurred, BUT the focus on the front sight is most important. (this applies to target shooting, for defense purposes you will be more aware of the target but as it is much bigger than a target bullseye you don't need as small a group).

 

[bornintheeu]

I actually meant 15-20 meters. I'm going to apply myself a little more. I only shoot handguns indoors.
Thank you for your attention and contribution.

 

[bornintheeu]

Tomorrow I'm going to the target shooting range and I'm going to see with my old reading glasses. Thanks for your help.

 

[Pudge]

Tomorrow I'm going to the target shooting range and I'm going to see with my old reading glasses. Thanks for your help.

With good eyes I enjoyed shooting my Single Six at 25 yards. I worked at it and got reasonably good. Then my eyes went bad on me. I started with reading glasses, and they helped for a while. My problem was that without reading glasses, I couldn't regulate my sights, they were too blurry, and with the readers I couldn't see the target, it was way too blurry. Optics help. A red dot, or a laser work. My Single Six doesn't get the work it used to, but a FastFire on the Mk III is tons of fun. My CC has a Crimson Trace and that works well for me. But, I have found that progressive lenses make it possible to shoot open sights. It isn't optimal, but by adjusting the angle of my head I can sharpen my sights or the target. I can't shoot like I did with good eyes, but it is satisfying again.

 

[Bob Willman]

If you wear glasses normally and the front sight is fuzzy, try stick-on bifocals. They come in the usual half circle format, available in different powers like reading glasses, they are flexible, they can be cut to size, applied while wet, stay in place when dry and are reusable. I estimated the distance from my eye to the front sight, went to the reading glass display, while standing from the sign a distance equal to the front sight I tried different reading glasses in front of my regular glasses until the display letters looked sharp. I ordered the stick-ons from Amazon ( about $20 ). I cut one so it fit in the upper left corner of the right lens so that when I shouldered the rifle I was looking through the stick-on lens at the sights. It also works with handguns but depending on your shooting stance you may need to alter the size and or position of the stick-on. I did this for hunting. The stick-on did not interfere with normal vision, but when the rifle was shouldered the front sight was sharp.

Bob NRA Benefactor Member

 

[d2wing]

I would line up the sights then focus on front sight and target. Glasses helped. Now that I have had cataract surgery It is much better.

 

[CoalCrackerAl]

I can see the sights and my target with 1x reading glasses. Go to the dollar store like suggested. And try them out. The ones you can see near and across the store should work.

 

[Tilos]

Tomorrow I'm going to the target shooting range and I'm going to see with my old reading glasses. Thanks for your help.

You would be better off with some drugstore readers about a 0.5 diopter WEAKER than your current reading glasses.
Weaker pushes the vocal length further out, into front sight range.
Try on different powered reading glasses and have something with you, you can hold out at front sight distance.

I have a have a short piece of wood with red headed pin in it to hold out at front sight distance to check different powered glasses.
Whatever you come up with to take to the store, make sure it doesn't look like a GUN!!
I bought cheap clip-on/flip-up sunglasses to use with the shooting readers too.
Know that the target will be somewhat blurry/fuzzy and there's no way to clear it up.
Shoot a group, then adjust the sights to this sight picture and shoot away.
jmo,

 

[Riomouse911]

I bought progressive trifocals; reading at the bottom, “computer distance” in the middle, distance on top. No seams, it’s a smooth transition from rear sight to front sight to targets out to 50 yards and beyond by just moving my head up or down slightly..

Nothing is worse than losing our crisp vision as we age! Good luck finding a solution .

Stay safe.

 

[wally]

Been there, done that, red dot optic and "driving" glasses prescription is IMHO the way to go. You focus on the target and look through the dot. you don't need to see the dot clearly you just look through it focusing on the target, keep the brightness just high enough to easily find it.

 

[nettlle]

Buy some progressive bifocals. I'm 69 years old and progressive bifocals are great for pistol shooting.

 

[InTheField]

I am farsighted (though as I age even my distance vision needs help) and have been wearing progressives for couple of decades now. They are great! If I tilt my head back just a little, handgun front sights come into perfect focus. The rear sight and target are a little blury, but that is true for someone with perfect vision who is correctly focusing on the front sight. Scopes are easy to focus for me looking through the top part of my glasses, so that is no big deal. I can keep a good cheek weld.

Probably the greatest challenge I have with open sighted rifles, and peep sights with longer barrels pretty well cured that for me. Shotguns (love skeet and sporting clays) are easy because shooters focus solely on the target.

With good progressives I can obtain perfect visual sharpness from about 8 inches to 8 miles just by shifting my head position a little bit.

 

[doubleh]

I went thru all this and the best solution for "me" was drugstore readers. I could use my progressive bifocals but tilting my head made my bum neck ache and the readers didn't. Now I am working with man made lenses after cataract removal and things are back like they were in the good old days before having to wear corrective glasses when shooting.

 

[alfsauve]

I have had cataract surgery and opted for 20/20 vision. Of course I need readers now. (I was severely near sighted all my life.) My optometrist offered to make me inverse progressives with the reading area on top, but I thought the cost high. Since otherwise I have 20/20 I went with SSP safety glasses that you can get with the "reader area" on top. I bought a plain pair as well and put the plain lenses on the left side and the reader one on the right. But this is only for shooting iron sighted pistols. When I go to scopes or red-dots I have a regular, reader on bottom, set of SSPs for that purpose. Other companies will do this as well. e.g., Hunter's Gold

 

[doubleh]

I went for 20/20 in both eyes also. Evidently my 20/20 extends closer to my eyes than yours as I need nothing to see pistol or rifle sights clearly but I do wear regular safety glasses when shooting. I am sitting here reading my computer monitor with my naked eye and can also read my 10" Kindle as well. I still need readers for fine print and close up tinkering. I love my new, man made, vision plus my UHD TV is truly that now.

 

[Mike OTDP]

OK...for pistol, with iron sights you have to have your focus on the front sight. This is normally your distance prescription -0.75 diopters. Your mileage WILL vary. You do NOT need to see the target clearly, sight alignment is far more critical for good shooting. I've got a Variolens...it will let you fine-tune the correction, but it is still set up for ONE distance.