No line bifocals

Bob Sanders · Apr 25, 2013

Sporting new no line bifocal safety glasses at work today. I don't know how anyone could shoot with these on! I can barely walk around, and I think they are even making me ill. Thank goodness I bought single vision street and shooting glasses!

dennishoddy · Apr 25, 2013

I had them once. And only once.
Kept them on for a month thinking my eyes would adjust, but it didn't

foghorn918 · Apr 25, 2013

I wear them daily, but can't for shooting. I'm still experimenting to find something that works for shooting. My bad eyes for near and far make it tougher.

I've tried reading glasses only, monovision glasses (1 lens for distance and dominant eye lens for close up for gun sight).

Still struggling for a solution. Next maybe something like Wes does by having a bifocal at the top of the lens of the dominant eye.
Sometimes it takes me forever to get a good sight picture with the front sight in focus.

Focus is another problem I have with both eyes open, looking down the slide w/ hard focus on the target I see two front sights, shifting (or trying) to a hard focus on the front sight, I then see two targets, targets are blurry, but there are two.

Wish I had started shooting these games when I was younger, skinny, and could see

Robusto · Apr 25, 2013

I tied the no line bi-focals. Made me sick, Dr said they would change lenses out at no charge. His eye glass fitter told me to hang on to them until the new lenses came in so I could use them in the interim. I reminded her that I shoot and I could not have glasses that changed my aim, so I left my glasses with them. I got a call the next day and my single vision glasses were ready.

dennishoddy · Apr 25, 2013

Robusto said:
I tied the no line bi-focals. Made me sick, Dr said they would change lenses out at no charge. His eye glass fitter told me to hang on to them until the new lenses came in so I could use them in the interim. I reminded her that I shoot and I could not have glasses that changed my aim, so I left my glasses with them. I got a call the next day and my single vision glasses were ready.

I might need to try the single vision glasses just to use at the range. My bifocals sure screw up the sight picture.

X Navy Chief · Apr 26, 2013

I find shooting with contacts and non prescription shooting glasses or sunglasses much easier for sight picture. Concur on the no line bifocals. I find that the magnified strip on the bottom of the lense is to small to use anyway without tipping your head all the way back. I haven't learned how to shoot both eyes open with anything but a red dot yet.