Shooting Glasses

[flint64]

Could someone suggest a good pair of shooting glasses/reading glasses combination?

Thanks

 

[nkbj]

Might have to get two pairs of cheaters.

 

[Coot]

If you are shooting a rifle or fowler, and need glasses for reading, you will likely need two different pairs of glasses. For reading the optical center is normally low & centered in each lens. Try holding a rifle in shooting position while wearing glasses - you are seeing the sights thru the upper corner of the lens and that is where the optical center needs to be for your shooting glasses so that the sights will be in focus with your head in a normal (shooting) position. Do a web search for Dr. Allan Toller who wrote about shooting & glasses for the American Rifleman - he explains it better than I can.

 

[Capt. Jas.]

If you are shooting a rifle or fowler, and need glasses for reading, you will likely need two different pairs of glasses.

Ditto


For shooting try:

Randolph Engineering (Randolph rangers)
or
Post 4
or
Hi-Def Specs

 

[roundball]

Luckily, at age 64 I still don't need "perscription" glasses...eyes seem to stay well balanced with each other.
I use drugstore reading glasses for reading and using the PC.

And I've noticed over the past 2-3 years that I get benefit by using 1.25 drugstore glass to keep my sights fairly sharp at the range and hunting so I buy the large full size glasses for that so they also serve as safety glasses.

 

[rafterob]

I am in the process of getting a pair of safety glasses with a reading bifocal lens. I can purchase them cheap through our state dept. of corrections enterprise program.

 

[ebiggs1]

I had our family eye doctor make me a pair of professional safety glasses. The kind with side shields that someone would use for work in an industrial manufacturing plant. They contain my prescription. My insurance let's me have a new pair of glasses every two years. So I just used one up for the safety glasses, so they didn't cost me anything (except the insurance payments!).

 

[Stumpkiller]

My shooting went to pot and ruin when I had to get bifocals. One or the reasons I'm getting back into smoothbore & sightless flintlocks. ;-)

 

[paulvallandigham]

There are a couple of Optometrists that specialize in making glasses for shooters. They advertise heavily in the Trap and Skeet shooting magazines, like " Shotgun Sports". Allan Lehman, down in Arizona is one. They have websites, and 800 numbers. All you need to do is send them your eye prescription, which you obtain from your local Optometrist, and pick out the style of glasses you want. They will get the width of the frames from your prescription information, or may ask you to measure some existing frames.

What is unique about "shooting glasses" is that they move the focal point to the upper quadrant nearest your nose, to maximize the eye's ability to focus clearly on your front sight, or target. The Cost depends on what you order, and from whom, of course. They are not free. But, you can buy frames that allow you to change lens, so that you can used different colored lens for certain targets, or light conditions.

Are they worth it? Well, I bought a pair about 20 years ago, and my Average Score shooting Trap went up about 2-3 targets per hundred. Instead of breaking 23-24 targets per round of 25 targets, I began to break 24-25 targets. I thought it was worth it. I still have the glasses, and still use them shooting clay targets, with both modern and BP guns.

 

[paulab]

Flint...Check out industrial supply catalogs or companies that sell safety equipment. You can get clear polycarbonate safety glasses with your choice of 1.0..1.5...2.0 or 2.5 bi-focal lens at the bottom of the glasses. They also come with side shields. I don't need regular glasses but do need the 2.5 magnification to adjust my sights up close. [60 year old eyes]. These glasses are exactly what I needed and are perfect for me. cheers Paul

 

[plinker]

I have been using these glasses for several years. The entire lens magnifies not just the lower part like the bifocal readers. When I get my eyes examined I ask the Dr. for a prescription for a distance of 30 inches which is about where the front sight is for both rifle and pistol. Of course you could go to the drug store and try several pair out and see which ones work best for seeing things just beyond your extended indes finger.
https://www.envirosafetyproducts.com/magnifying-safety-glasses-magnifying-safety-glass.html

 

[gonpce]

I found some stick on bifocals on several sites. You can place them on any part of safety glasses or sunglasses and they are removable and reusable. Work great and you decide which part of the glasses to place the magnification.