Shooting Glasses Option and Question

[B Lafferty]

A year or so ago there was a male shooter at a world cup final in 10 meter air pistol who did not have glasses of any kind, BUT, he did have an blinder over his non-shooting eye made of cardboard hung on a piece of masking tape from his forehead. It seemed to work ok for him.

Now I’ve heard everything !

It was truly a sight to behold. Over the weekend I'll try to locate the YouTube video and provide a link.

[Amati]

For what it's worth.... Bob Jones Sights in AZ, makes EXCELLENT shooting glasses and lenses at a very respectable price.....

His products might be worth the recommendation, but without a recommendation, that website is atrocious and doesn't inspire confidence.

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[spektr]

The advantage to a shooting glass frame is that the sight line for a right handed shooter is to the right hand side and potentially the upper edge of normal glasses. The position of the lens and the skew angles can all be addressed with good frames....... That being said, a large lens cheapo set of reading glasses from the dollar store makes an amazing difference when hou get the right diopter value and is probably in excess of 90% the goodness of my knoblocks, I have both........

[bmcross]

https://www.issf-sports.org/media/foto/ ... 6_AP60.jpg

Not sure if this is the guy Lafferty was talking about but this is from the World Cup last month in South Korea. The silver medalist didn’t wear any type of glasses or shooting frames at all. There were also two other guys in the Final that had blinders but no glass in front of the dominant eye.

[Kippa44]

I was watching the latest World Cup air pistol event last night on the ISSF You Tube channel. I noticed that several shooters, rather than using Varga or similar frames, were using a regular pair of glasses with a flip up (or down) blinder over their non-dominant eye. I'm assuming that the dominant eye lens was prescription with the focal point on the front sight.

I had my eyes examined a month ago and will have my focal length to front sight prescription on Monday. At Walmart, I can have this prescription put into a basic plastic frame costing <$20. The lens, Nikon with scratch resistant coating will cost <$50 for my dominant eye. The non-dominant eye will have a plain plastic lens costing nothing. A flip blinder runs maybe $25 with shipping. Total cost is <$95.

The least expensive shooting dedicated frames I can find online run $125. Add to that the cost of a prescription lens and maybe a blinder-------the price is close to double+ compared to the Walmart approach.
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Question: Am I missing something here of major importance? I understand that shooting specific frames will allow for lens adjustments that can't be done with regular frames. However, for my non-Olympic, aging eyes and body, it seems the Walmart approach is likely decent and cost effective. Thoughts?

Thanks in advance.

i don't think you're missing a thing

[Ramon OP]

I have regular glasses with one lense adapted for shooting. When you go to Walmart also ask to have the focal point offset to the right if you are right-handed. My position is perpendicular to the target and the focal point of the glasses is offset 2mm to the right (we don't look straight ahead when shooting like we do when reading)

[ShootingSight]

Bob is not a webmaster, but his glasses work.