Prescription Shooting Glasses

[AStudentInArms]

[unusedusername]

As long as your normal glasses are the plastic-lenses (not glass) kind you are good to go.

When you first start out you may want to put some full-coverage goggles over your glasses ($13) to keep brass from getting between your glasses and your eyes.

After a while you will know where your brass lands, and how to hold the gun so brass does not land on your head and you'll eventually get bored of wearing the goggles so its not worth it to get expensive ones.

[ebencikiv]

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[HighLander51]

StudentInArms ,I wear glasses and I was wondering for those of you who wear glasses, do you wear a special prescription shooting glasses on the shooting range?

The most commonly accepted solution for shooters that have corrective lenses is to get an 'intermediate' focal plane correction, ie, sharp focus of the front sight. The target can be fuzzy, along with the rear sight, but the front has to be sharp. Any optometrist can get this prescription for you and it works well for computer distance also. Safety lenses are pretty much a must for shooting. Wrap around glasses are difficult for those of us that wear prescription glasses because of the distortion produced.

[Tom Slick]

I have WileyX prescription safety glasses and my Oakley Rx sunglasses are also safety glasses. Both are comfortable and look good.

http://www.wileyx.com/prescriptions/prescriptions.aspx?ActivityCode=CORP

[fiddletown]

I wear Bolles with prescription inserts.

[SimpleCountryActuary]

I bought a pair of the over the glasses safety glasses from the NRA website. They work fine. AND they and the ballcap I wear are necessary to protect my tender self from flying shells from the other lanes.

[sniper5]

Depends on what kind of shooting you are doing. For most casual stuff regular glasses with shatter resistant lenses are fine. For anything where you are moving in close proximity to other shooters where an empty casing may be plinking into your face from the side or front something wrap around with or with side shields will work fine. For true position rifle work or match pistol something with adjustable lenses like Champions or Knoblochs or Jaggi's (I use titanium Nova's for prone) work well. For shotgunning something with a yellow or rose lens to make the clays contrast brightly with the background are helpful. Whatever you use, make sure you get a needle sharp view of the front sight for rifle and pistol or a bright view of the bird for trap and skeet.

So the answer is-it depends.

[Paul S]

My pistol shooting glasses are my regular prescription with a small lens glued on the upper portion of the right lens. It is like moving the reading portion of the prescription lens up to the top so I can shoot without having to roll my head way back to pick up the sights in the normal bifocal area of my glasses. It has made shooting soooo much easier. At the rifle range I can easily find the sweet spot in my progressive lenses and need no add ons or strange positioning of my head. Hope this helps.
P.S. I had the glasses made by an outfit in St. Louis. The company was a dream to deal with. http://www.safevision.net/index.html

[wjc]

I had my eye doctor make up special glasses for me.

She modified my perscription for some safety glasses so my point of focus would be more conducive to shooting and added yellow tinting.

[AStudentInArms]

thank you everyone for the very useful information! I almost forgot about tinting aspect of the glasses as well, I will keep that in mind.

[Dutch3]

I should probably look into a custom solution as well. My "no-line" bifocals often produce a double image when sighting through a scope.

[Uriah02]

I paid for the polycarbonite lenses so I use my regular glasses. Occassionally I'll wear the goggles I have left over from active duty, can't remember their brand though.

[smoothy8500]

At my last appt with the eye doc I mentioned how I was having difficulty focusing on the front sight inside the indoor ranges. He made a prescription that focuses 28" from my eye, the distance to my front sight. The glasses were made to ANSI safety specs and cost me $30 co-payment. There's some internet companies that make prescription safety glasses real reasonably priced too.

[Eljay]

Indoor I wear chemistry lab glasses over my regular glasses (more brass bouncing around). Outdoors I just wear my regular glasses or my sunglasses but I get polycarbonate lenses on everything.