Prescription shooting glasses

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Well age is catching up to me and need glasses for being nearsighted. First time I ever heard of progressive lenses, I guess they are advanced bifocals. My normal glasses wont be ready till next week so still glasses free but planning on getting some safety / shooting glasses

For those that have them did you get progressive or regular prescription lenses to go with them. I shoulda asked the doc at the time but hadn't thought about it yet.

And in the Winston-Salem area, who did you use? My eye doctor didnt carry those kinds of frames

Thanks
 
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The kind of glasses you get will be specific to what you plan to do.

I get mine set up for pistol shooting meaning single vision, dominant eye tuned for the front sight, other eye for distance. I bring an airsoft pistol to the office and hold it up while doc does the a/b testing
These also work for rifle with irons or 1x prism/red dot sight.
Shooting a scoped rifle I don't use prescription lenses
For shotgun you'll need another set and can't tell you what you need there except the pistol glasses will not work well.
 
I'm near sighted with astigmatism and I use single vision (far focus) for rifle and shotgun shooting. Wear progressives for everything else. I use single vision prescription sun glasses for driving and shotgunning. Zenni is an inexpensive on line prescription glasses provider. I have done business with them for a number of years. Their website and service gets better every year. Just be sure to measure your face or a pair of glasses that fit and compare to their offerings if you go that route. 75% of their glasses frames are for small to medium size head/faces. The last time I went to the eye doctor and gave their "opticians" a shot. They didnt have a clue what they were doing so it was just as well that I bought off the interweb.
 
Save yourself a lot of headaches and call Wayne Morgan of Morgan Optical. He's a shooter and understands what you need for a particular discipline. 800-594-0175
I have several pairs from him that I use for shotgun as well as pistol. You can scan/email/fax your prescription and he'll take care of you.
 
Well age is catching up to me and need glasses for being nearsighted. First time I ever heard of progressive lenses, I guess they are advanced bifocals. My normal glasses wont be ready till next week so still glasses free but planning on getting some safety / shooting glasses

For those that have them did you get progressive or regular prescription lenses to go with them. I shoulda asked the doc at the time but hadn't thought about it yet.

And in the Winston-Salem area, who did you use? My eye doctor didnt carry those kinds of frames

Thanks

@MacEntyre wife is an optometrist in Jamestown and does this for people.


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Well, not exactly on topic, but I just ordered some stick-on bifocal things to add to my shooting glasses, because last time at the range I noticed I can't see the buttons on the thingy that moves the target to various distances! (Getting old is a pain sometimes!) Distance vision is good enough for how I shoot, for now...it's not like I'm doing great distances, like some of you.
 
Save yourself a lot of headaches and call Wayne Morgan of Morgan Optical. He's a shooter and understands what you need for a particular discipline. 800-594-0175
I have several pairs from him that I use for shotgun as well as pistol. You can scan/email/fax your prescription and he'll take care of you.

My wife and I got our clay shooting glasses from Morgan Optical. We are very hapy with the service and our glasses.
 
Welcome "aboard" of nearsighted. A light vision correct shouldn't be a big problem, however, as a person with -9 vision I could share some experience:

1) A regular optometrist have no f...n idea of shooting glasses and things they say are mostly total, complete BS. Considering price of glasses it is better to educate yourself a little bit to make informed decision.

2) "Prescription shooting glasses" is still prescription glasses yet:

a) where frame is big enough and strong enough to protect eyes. The key here is compliance with safety glasses standards such as Z87.1. Unfortunately, the optics almost never carry such frames in stock, so the task is to:
- find the frame yourself
- find optics who will take your frame (few of them do)

While where is a lot of safety glasses around, few of them works as prescription because of geometry of frame. Say anything "wrap-around" style cannot be made prescription without unacceptable level of distortion in the field of vision. The best of all I was able to find by the moment are canadian ArmoRX frame, especially 700X series with side shields works perfectly both for shooting and machining.

b) Now lenses. Of all options they offer, it's only thick impact resistant polycarbonate that makes safety glasses. That's important to know. They'd love to sell thin/high index lenses which are more expensive but... less strong.

3) Local optics yet to work best especially for multi-vision glasses. Any online optics makes kind of "average" glasses without proper alignment of the center of vision with eyes pupil. It may work but may not. Also, it is way easier to have glasses remade in local optics and this happens way more often than anyone wishes.

Progressive/single vision highly depends on use. If you do solely shooting, single vision will work much better, especially for precision shooting. Just make sure that the lenses are big enough so you don't have high level of distortion on peripheral vision.

I have to make progressive on mine, because of machining and safety officer duties, where I have constantly switch between reading/doing things.
 
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While where is a lot of safety glasses around, few of them works as prescription because of geometry of frame. Say anything "wrap-around" style cannot be made prescription without unacceptable level of distortion in the field of vision. The best of all I was able to find by the moment are canadian ArmoRX frame, especially 700X series with side shields works perfectly both for shooting and machining.


I have some Prescription WileyX Saber wraparounds. These come with three color changeable shades (grey/amber/red) and you can buy a prescription insert for them. The plastic insert holds two smaller lenses and clips behind the shield. It wasn't cheap but I have been pretty happy with the setup.

https://www.wileyx.com/products/series/changeables


https://www.wileyx.com/products/prescription/sport-prescription-inserts

If you go this route it's best to look on the manufacturers site and choose an authorized vendor so they will know what they are doing and can get support if you have issues.
 
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I definitely need a good pair of shooting glasses. I've tried to explain to my optometrist several times, without luck.
But, with the two mentioned above I hope I can get what will really work!
 
I have some Prescription WileyX Saber wraparounds. These come with three color changeable shades (grey/amber/red) and you can buy a prescription insert for them. The plastic insert holds two smaller lenses and clips behind the shield. It wasn't cheap but I have been pretty happy with the setup.

https://www.wileyx.com/products/series/changeables


https://www.wileyx.com/products/prescription/sport-prescription-inserts

If you go this route it's best to look on the manufacturers site and choose an authorized vendor so they will know what they are doing and can get support if you have issues.
Inserts are options, however the problem with inserts are
1) smaller lens - way smaller field of view, at the level of "unacceptable" for say practical shooting where the whole FOV is required or precise shooting where proper head position puts vision line at the top of even proper-sized glasses).
2) insert positioning which is not consistent comparing properly made lenses

If there is the only option - this is better than nothing, however, from my personal point of view disadvantages are so extreme so this option needs not to be considered at all. Again, it is just my opinion and if, say, we speak of light correction (0.5-1 diopter this may perfectly work, but I doubt that correction is really required at all in this case)
 
I definitely need a good pair of shooting glasses. I've tried to explain to my optometrist several times, without luck.
But, with the two mentioned above I hope I can get what will really work!
If you ever be in Raleigh area you may consider Western Wake Optical @ 400 Ashville, Cary . Their doctor is kinda hard to communicate, but makes very good job making the correct prescription and their glass guy is very knowledgeable. I tried dozens of optics during my 10 years of like in the US and these are probably the only one who does really good job, they have good optics suppliers including Zeiss and they can do a good pair of glasses in your own safety frame.
 
You should talk with hunters hd gold. He just started with shooting glasses a year or two ago, but he has been to every major uspsa and steel challenge match anywhere near the easy coast. His family business is a normal glasses company for optometrist. He spun this off for shooters specifically.
 
Ive always considered shooting glasses to be mild shade safety glasses. If you can get a copy of your prescription from your Dr I've found the best options are online. Most places only carry a single line of safety glasses such as Uvex or 3m. My personal favorites are the 3M ZT200. I wear mine at work every day and they are hands down the most comfortable safety glasses I know of.
 
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