Shooting with glasses

[riflejunkie]

When you get your prescription changed for your shooting glasses you should consider this.  A shooter is NOT looking through the center of the lens at the sight picture.  We are looking through the top of the lens and that causes distortion.  Have your wife, husband, friend help you find what part of your lens you are looking through when you are aiming from whatever position you shoot from.  Then at the desk when the person is trying to mark the lens in your new frames you need to let them know you aren't getting reading glasses and instruct them on what part of your lens you are looking through when shooting.  Your sight picture will thank you.

[MEHavey]

Consider a single-focus lens -- focused at 28" or whatever your eye-to-front-sight distance is.  (Measure this *before* visting the optometrist, as bringing the gun through the Mall tends to get everyone's attention these days.)   Also, get a LARGE wire frame size so you have a lot of room to look through actual glass/(ballistic plastic).  

I finally had to do this with high power for both the AR and the Garand.

[scotsman]

I'm experiencing trouble with that very issue at the moment...bi-focal lenses in which the band width is not matched to the region I look through when sighting. An additional frustration is that polycarbonate lenses, while offering the best protection, make for very soft and scratchable eyewear. Mine have saved me twice from material thrown from a lawn mower and a weed eater...therefore, worth every penny....downside is my front sight is furry.

[riflejunkie]

I was having that same problem and I went to Walmart for my exam and glasses and the eye doc gave me a Rx that compromised the target and the front sight, a trade off so to speak so that I could get both.  Call your eye doc ahead of time and I'm sure he/she will accomodate you to get your shooting prescription just right.
The ideal thing to do is get an adjustable iris like the one ronbeaux posted a picture of mounted in his Knobloch frames.  There is an adjustable iris that fits on regular glasses and I would normally refer you to Champchoice, but for some reason they are off-line and it is giving me a bit of worry.  They have a substantial amount of the money I earned last year.;o)

[MEHavey]

All,

Make your focal point the front sight. Repeat, the front sight ... even when using an aperture rear sight.
In iron sight shooting, nothing else matters (and it all falls into place anyway after that.)

:-)

[riflejunkie]

MEHavey - 1/29/2009  6:46 PM



All,

Make your focal point the front sight.  Repeat, the front sight ... even when using an aperture rear sight. 
In iron sight shooting, nothing else matters (and it all falls into place anyway after that.) 

:-)

 

 

You're right.  That's very good advice.  For me though, and I guess it's because of the overall condition of my eyesight, perfect focus on my front sight gives me nothing to look at down range, so I have to have a compromise.  With my Gehman 530 rear iris I wear a distance lens and then dial in what I need on the Gehman.

[MEHavey]

Do you use an aperture on your glasses?   That'll fix a multitude of sins.  (Like all the ones I have -- `Can no longer shoot well w/o it myself)

[riflejunkie]

The aperture is on my rear sight in the Gehman 530. The iris is adjustable in size as well as having optical adjustability.

[nmmike]

I just checked Champions Choice again, no joy. One reason I was looking is that they seem to be the source for esoteric equipment like the Gehman 530 or the adjustable iris glasses. If I remember correctly, the Gehman is Sorta' cost prohibitive!........& yes I did look up 'esoteric' to make sure I was using it correctly.

Mike