shooting much better with my progressive lens

[Guest]

I don't have a pair of shooting diopter glasses.

It dawn on me, why not use the bottom of my progressive lens as a shooting glasses!

After all, it is 1.5+ diopter at bottom of my progressive reading glasses.

This morning, I used this technique. My average went from 8.7 up to 9.5!!!

I am very happy with my "poor man's shooting glasses".

Only oddity is I have to tilt my head backward to see through the bottom of my progressive lens. But I will take this improvement any day over this slight physical inconvenience.

[Fred Mannis]

Only oddity is I have to tilt my head backward to see through the bottom of my progressive lens. But I will take this improvement any day over this slight physical inconvenience.

Is this really 'just a slight physical inconvenience'? Have you used this technique for a 60 shot match? Were you able to consistently maintain the proper head angle that gives you the best focus? Was there any effect on the steadiness of your hold? Having been down this road, my experience is that using the reading area of progressive eyeglasses to sharpen focus is merely a stop gap until you get proper shooting glasses.

[GaryN]

You will get a very sore neck.

I wear progressives, and the head position required so I can focus on the front sight kinks my neck.

A relatively low cost alternative is to simply have your eye doc do up a special set of glasses with lenses as follows
- the aiming eye be either a single prescription (so you can focus on the front sight) or a bifocal (focus on front sight & read things on the bench)
- the non-aiming eye could be either bifocal or progressive.

Get it made at a chain like Pearl Vision or similar and the cost would be reasonable.

That is what I did.
And I lowered the cost even more by simply using one of my old frames. So all I really paid for was the new lens.

I thought about shooting glasses, and even got a set of Varga frames. But I'm practially blind w/o glasses, so I also need a lens on the left eye so I can simply walk around.

[jacques b gros]

Just came back from the optics shop. Went ytd to my eye MD and, by testing, found out that a .5º was the best.

Had the lens made, got home and found that the front post is not absolutely sharp. Called back the shop, asked if they could make me a .40º.

This is very expensive. Ready made lenses apparently come on a .25 interval. Anything other than that the lens has to be surfaced for the prescription. Price went from $30 to 120...

[2650 Plus]

The post about progressive lens rings a bell. I once had a set of glasses with just such a lens,but mine were cut so as to provide a clear front sight with my head in the proper position. I found that my head position was much more stable than with my normal shooting glasses as there was only one position where I could clearly focus on the front sight. The glasses burned up in a house fire and for some reason I never tried to replace them. Forgeting to continue to use an idea that really works has proven to be a problem more than once. Good Shooting Bill Horton

[2650 Plus]

The post about progressive lens rings a bell. I once had a set of glasses with just such a lens,but mine were cut so as to provide a clear front sight with my head in the proper position. I found that my head position was much more stable than with my normal shooting glasses as there was only one position where I could clearly focus on the front sight. The glasses burned up in a house fire and for some reason I never tried to replace them. Forgeting to continue to use an idea that really works has proven to be a problem more than once. Good Shooting Bill Horton

[Tom Amlie]

I needed a +.5 diopter lens for shooting. Rather than springing for the relatively expensive Champion or Knobloch glasses, or even speind $30 at Pearl or some other chain, I got a pair of $10 prescription glasses at LBEyewear.com. At that price getting 2 or 3 pairs is relatively painless. You can get progressives and tints, etc.

Ideally I could probably use a +.625, but as Jaques noted the standard increment is .25.

[TomAmlie]

My apologies for misspelling your name Jacques; I should always sign in so I can correct my posts.

[shadow]

Tom Amlie,

Can you check the website. - http://www.lbeyewear.com/

lbeyewear.com

yielded some strange results!

[TomAmlie]

Sorry about that - should be a "w" after the LB

http://www.lbweyewear.com

It's the "specials" page that has the $9 and $9.98 models.