Man am I screwed up

[MarkCh]

Hope this is in the right place to post this. I didn't find anywhere that seemed more appropriate. OK, so I shoot my rifle and shotgun pretty well, pistol not so much. I keep hearing people say "focus on the front sight," and just realized today that because of my vision I simply can't "focus" on my front sight. I can stare at it, but it's not in focus -- just a blur. I had lasik about two years ago, and now I can see a deer from 900 yards, which is great. Unfortunately, I can't read or work on a computer without reading glasses. I got to thinking about this today and went out and tried shooting with my reading glasses on. Man, I could really focus on the front sight! And while the target was really out of focus, at 15 yards (with my BB pistol, which has about the same trigger as my M&P) I could make good hits about twice as often with the glasses on as when I wasn't wearing them. Now I'm left wondering what to do next. Try to find some tinted shooting glasses with +2 prescription? Or maybe get just a contact to go in my right eye? Or keep trying to get it right without wearing glasses and not really being able to "focus" on the front sight, but mentally focus on it even though it's not visually focuses? I'm hoping I'm close to a breakthrough that will get me past my pstol shooting woes, but don't know where to go next. Any advice from you folks who have done a lot of pistol shooting would be greatly appreciated.

Mark C.

 

[poopgiggle]

lots of guys make prescription shooting glasses get some

 

[foghorn918]

I'm still searching for a solution myself. I can't see near or far without glasses. If I hard focus on the front sight I see two targets, If I'm focused on the target I see two front sights. I wear bifocals normally. I've tried presciption glasses with left lens setup for distance and right lens (dominate eye) set for close, but that didn't fill the bill either. Right now I'm shooting in presciption reading glasses so I can focus on the front sight.

I'm going to go to USSA during the IDPA nationals and visit with the Decot shooting glasses eye doc and rep and see what they suggest for me as well. From what I've read I may be trying bifocals in the upper part of each lens, then distance in the bottom part.

Good luck on what works for you. Bad eyes suck

 

[threegungeezer]

Not much help here but now you know why I shoot a dot on everything

 

[dennishoddy]

Yep, I can't tell you how many times the bi focals have transitioned between a clear target or a clear front site.

My eye Dr. is a fisherman, and I've asked him about shooting glasses. Maybe I need to do what Steve is doing, and see the Decot folks.

 

[Scott Hearn]

You want to see your front sight clearly. I know it sucks when you can't see the target, I'm in the same boat and I figure at the rate I'm going I got maybe two years before I have no choice but to shoot an optic. 10 years ago I could see anything near or far day or night. Now it's just far and in the daytime. Getting old sucks.

To answer your question yes shoot with readers if it helps. I had my eye doc grind me a pair of inserts at .25 diopters under what his prescription said was full correction. His script was at 1.25 so I'm running with 1.0. That gave me a pretty clear front site without totally blurring out the target. For pistol shooting only I would have went with the full script, but I can't even see that there are targets at 300 to shoot in a 3 gun match with that! Fast forward a year and I can see the targets better than then and the FS worse and need another set of lenses. And we won't even discuss stacked targets. Grrr.... Did I say that getting old sucks?

 

[MarkCh]

I have been searching a little and found that they make safety sunglasses with bifocals. That might be my answer, allowing me to tilt my head up a littel and focus on the sight. But not causing a problem when I'm just looking around the range, etc. I really need that for reading maps, etc., anyway. I drive with regular sunglasses, but if I need to read directions or a phone or something, I have to take off the sunglasses and put on my readers. I will say that I love being able to see good at long distances and being able to do most things without glasses, which I previously had to wear 24/7.

 

[dennishoddy]

I have been searching a little and found that they make safety sunglasses with bifocals. That might be my answer, allowing me to tilt my head up a littel and focus on the sight. But not causing a problem when I'm just looking around the range, etc. I really need that for reading maps, etc., anyway. I drive with regular sunglasses, but if I need to read directions or a phone or something, I have to take off the sunglasses and put on my readers. I will say that I love being able to see good at long distances and being able to do most things without glasses, which I previously had to wear 24/7.

We have the safety glasses at work that are clear with bifocals. Not stylish, but they do work.

 

[Scott Hearn]

A better idea is to have some bifocals ground backwards so when you tilt forward you're looking through the top at your sites and when not shooting you go with little or no correction through the bottom 2/3 of the lense. Some shooters go this route.

 

[Bob Sanders]

Someone told me that they take their gun with them to their optometrist. Then he gets glasses to see the front sight. Seems like that may be a plan.

 

[jtischauser]

Shoot open with red dots.

 

[dennishoddy]

That's where I'm headed.

 

[Scott Hearn]

Shoot open with red dots.

That's where I'm headed.

Me too. You see all my elephant dung in the classifieds? That's what it's for!

 

[foghorn918]

........ And we won't even discuss stacked targets. Grrr.... Did I say that getting old sucks?

yep, I can't tell where one stops and the other begins. I have to take a close look during walkthru to decide where I need my aiming points to be. They're nothing but one big brown blob!

 

[Bob Sanders]

Getting old isn't for sissies

 

[Burk Cornelius]

Getting old isn't for sissies

word

 

[dennishoddy]

Whiney assed cry baby old farts!!

Deal with it!

LOL......

 

[No.343]

Talk to the Decot folks before you see your eye doctor. They told me what to do and it works very well. Don't wait for the Nationals. I wear bifocals also. My Decot are not setup like bifocals. I can tell you that I see very well to shoot.

 

[foghorn918]

The Decot rep is setup at USSA in Tulsa Sept 18-22 in town for IDPA nationals.

I'm going to see him on Friday. They recommend you bring your current prescription with you.

 

[Feegee]

Rudy Project has a insert that clips on to the frame of the shooting glasses that works great. I know some top level shooters that use these, they are great because you can still change to whatever colored lenses that you want for that day, and just clip the insert on, and you are good to go. Let me know if you can't find what I am talking about, and I will post a link.