seeing sights with progresive glasses

[Gem1950]

seeing sights with progresive glasses

Probably should have gotten conservative lenses.

[orangeusa]

I got bifocals with the bifocal defocused to basically pistol front sight.. My opto was cool with that.

I could never get the progressives to work.

Iron sites - nogo. Scopes, adjust to focus w/o glasses. Good luck sighting your hits.

Short of laser surgery, glasses just suck.
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[obiwan]

I too wear progressive lenses for reading and computer work, they drive me crazy shooting so, I grabbed a pack of fixed 200 magnification glasses at Costco, so far so good.

[desrt2]

Here is a link to the DIY custom shooters glasses for far-sighted people and those of us who wear various prescription glasses:
Custom Glasses Made At Home
It's worth a look and it works for me.

[Jimi Jah]

I don't wear progessive lenses, unless I'm shooting. I have a custom pair made up with transitions. They have really poor side vision, but that's not needed shooting.

I like that I can rock my head up and down to focus on the target or the front site. I use KNS crosshair sites on all my AR's. Those really help the elevation as there is no guesswork. The larger round design helps center each shot even if the crosshairs are blurred.

[Flyin Brian]

I was looking for a solution to this problem around 5 years ago and someone suggested using a cheap mylar disk that sticks to your shooting glasses. I tried it and it worked great. Then I lost the disk :/

I did some searching and found an adjustable aperture made by Merit Optical that sticks on your shooting glasses with a suction cup. Here's a photo I found online:



I've been using this product for around 2 years now, and it has become absolutely necessary for me to wear this now to shoot iron sights reliably.

Here is a simple test from the manufacturer's website that shows how it works: http://www.meritcorporation.com/how_they_work.html

Simple Test:

To check out this phenomena for yourself, try this rough, but inexpensive, experiment:

Make a fist, put it up to your shooting eye, and look through the tunnel formed by your fingers. By manipulating your fingers, you can adjust the size of the hole.
Hold a pencil out at arm's length; the point represents your front sight. Pick out a distant object to be the target.
Sight through your fist, adjust the hole to the right size, and you will be able to focus on both objects near and far.

They sell these at MidwayUSA and Brownell's. I think they were around $60 at Midway when I bought mine.

[Cnynrat]

I wear progressive lenses. With my regular glasses I do need to tilt my head back a little to get the front sight in focus when shooting handguns, but for my rifles the front sight is far enough away that it's not a problem.

One alternative is to have your optometrist make a pair of glasses where the part of the lens that you will use to focus at your sight distance is centered in the lens, or at least maybe higher than normal. That way you won't need to tilt your head as much.

A disadvantage of using special shooting glasses is you aren't likely to have them on if you ever get in a situation where you need to defend yourself. There are advantages to training with what you are likely to be wearing day in and day out.

[dmessler]

I've had my best results using multi-focal contact lenses.

[Meaneng]

I'm near-sighted, with progressives (older eyes).
I wear the single use contacts when I shoot handguns. Right eye is partially corrected, such that the front sight is crisp and sharp ( to my dominant -right) eye. Left eye is fully corrected, so I can see the target well.

Takes some getting used to. Works for me. Kind of pseudo-progressive thing they do with single correction contacts.

Plus I can wear unmodified shooting glasses; better protection than normal glasses.

Not sure if this would work with rifle iron sights. Works ok with scopes.

[GunSmyth]

You may want to try this.

http://www.eyepalusa.com/

They seem inexpensive enough to try. If my eyes get any worse I will have to give them a shot.