Prescription shooting glasses

They have some options here, couple different ways to get them your prescription. The Financial ones I linked to I'm going to get eventually, I don't really like the sunglasses style ones I picked up from my optometrist. Just a heads up, the listed price is frames only, it'll add up as you start adding features and such.

https://safetygearpro.com/product/financial/

I went with the Ranger glasses from these guys

https://www.randolphusa.com/re-ranger/

They work through an optometrist in NY that makes the lenses to your Rx

https://www.morganoptical.net/

I also have an astigmatism and they work well, but I've never been able to completely eliminate the fuzzy red dot issue.

The benefit of having Rx shooting glasses is you get the correction all the way to the top edge of the lens, which you're looking through most of the time when shooting prone (as I do a lot). Your every day wear glasses don't do that.

https://www.decot.com/

Decot is another option. They are well versed in the intracacies of shooting glasses such as optical center and diaopter adjustments. They will make your lenses from a prescription. My local optometrist cuts mine for a reasonable price.

I recently had a warranty issue with my frames and they replaced them no questions asked.

+1 on Decot.
They make glasses specifically for shooting sports.

I wear Decot Hy-Wyd in my prescription.
I also have a pair of plain old 2x magnification safety glasses that are handy for alot of things that might damage my prescription glasses. I like the to help focus on my pistol sights. They came from Amazon.

Glad to see this thread. Painting sights is only taking me so far. Going to have to bite the bullet soon I'm afraid.

A friend got a selection of stick on apertures. I am overdue for an exam and new Rx shooting glasses, but one of those sharpened the sights considerably.

I had to undergo lens replacement for cataracts. Oh, so sweet. If I'd had a spare $10K I'd have had this done as an elective a while back.
Elected to go with 20/20 in both eyes with correction for my astigmatism. It wasn't perfect but for the first time ever red dots appear as a dot not a red twinkly star.

However, that didn't fix the near sight. With age the muscles just won't focus up close. I use the SSP shooting glasses with the top readers. I have a totally clear lens in the left side and the SSP at 1.75 in the right. Works great for iron sights. And for red dots, I just look up and don't look through the correction part.

alfsauve said:

However, that didn't fix the near sight. With age the muscles just won't focus up close. I use the SSP shooting glasses with the top readers. I have a totally clear lens in the left side and the SSP at 1.75 in the right. Works great for iron sights. And for red dots, I just look up and don't look through the correction part.

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I recently went with these as well, and they do work very well.

And since they double as my safety/sunglasses, and not just my "shooting glasses", they are almost always available, as I pretty much always have them on.

Another recommendation for Ducot shooting glasses. I ordered them in bifocal and was really unhappy. I called and they did them over at no charge. Sterling customer service in this day and age. Additionally, the ability to raise the glasses higher on the face off the adjustable nose pad thing is just what I needed for prone NRA highpower competition. I couldn't be happier with them. What I got was the HY-WYD WITH HY-LO BRIDGE and the 67 - GOLD - Polycarbonate lenses.

I like to use champion's choice for rifles (blue box/left) and Varga for pistol (right).


Both have served me well over the decades.

There are different types of shooting glasses, for different types of shooting, as has been shown. For precision rifle, the Champion's Choice shown above are top of the line. Varga are still popular for Bullseye, although Bullseye has fallen out of favor. Their main use these days is Olympic pistol. Any Wiley, Costa, Oakley, etc. will do if you want to be tacticool, but a larger lens is better. For shotgunning sports the Decot Hy-Wyd's Armored Farmer mentions, and the Randoplh Engineering Rangers that Nature Boy mentions, are two of the most popular glasses, and Morgan optical is a great place to get them from; they shoot the clays games, and understand the needs for them.

I will be going with a different solution, though possibly through Morgan Optical; I too, have high astigmatism (BTW, "an astigmatism" is somewhat of a misnomer, unless you actually do only have it in one eye, in which case the correct term is unilateral astigmatism. Mine is bilateral, both eyes) and have found a less expensive solution, though not as fashionable.

Randolph Engineering make a frame called the Ranger Sporter that features a frame that hold the clear prescription lenses and the various colors are held by clip-ons, similar to clip-on sunglasses. This way when you change the Rx, you only have to replace one set of lenses. Decots and Rangers are great glasses, but it gets expensive changing three or four sets of Rx lenses every couple years.

https://www.randolphusa.com/re-rang..._pa_size=62mm&attribute_pa_temple=cable-160mm

As bpshooter mentions, either leave the mutlifocal off your shooting glasses, or if you MUST have a reading capacity for some reason, a 'golfer' seg set way low is the way to go. For Shotgunning, the Optical Center should be fit while shouldering the gun, but if this is not possible, it should be set higher than normal. I know Morgan Optical can do this, not sure about Decot.

I asked my optometrist for a prescription for shooting glasses, and they've worked out well. The target is a bit fuzzy, but I can see the sights. It's made a big difference.

I have a simple solution for my "older" eyes that also have an astigmatism. (same problem as the OP, regarding most red dots, etc.)…. When using a scope with a reticle, I wear my standard reading glasses. Works splendidly. Reticle and target are in perfect focus. I've even gotten so I shoot handguns with reading glasses also.... actually, mine are "monitor glasses" and focus a bit further away than close-up reading glasses. They allow me to easily focus on the front sight of a pistol, and the target is minimally blurred, but totally workable. Try reading glasses. (I use standard distance glasses with a red dot 1X. It cures the astigmatism issue and presents a clear red dot that's not fuzzy.

A friend came up with a set of Eyepal stick on apertures. Not as elaborate as the old Merit Iris or the plastic Lyman, but available, less expensive, and very light weight.
I am overdue for new glasses and one of those really cleared up the sights even on top of what my shooting glasses were doing.
Only really useful for slow fire.

RainDodger said:

I have a simple solution for my "older" eyes that also have an astigmatism. (same problem as the OP, regarding most red dots, etc.)…. When using a scope with a reticle, I wear my standard reading glasses. Works splendidly. Reticle and target are in perfect focus. I've even gotten so I shoot handguns with reading glasses also.... actually, mine are "monitor glasses" and focus a bit further away than close-up reading glasses. They allow me to easily focus on the front sight of a pistol, and the target is minimally blurred, but totally workable. Try reading glasses. (I use standard distance glasses with a red dot 1X. It cures the astigmatism issue and presents a clear red dot that's not fuzzy.

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Works if the reticle and target are in the same focal plane. You must not shoot much beyond 20 feet......
Also reading glasses as a rule will not correct astigmatism. Astigmatism is a condition where the cornea is not perfectly spherical, and correction is obtained by using a toric lens set at the same angle as the irregularity in the cornea.
What you are experiencing is the reading glasses overcorrecting your myopia or hyperopia, (most likely the latter), and that you have very mild astigmatism. (I'll bet less than 1 diopter.)
I'm glad this works for you anecdotally, but to advise everyone to do so is irresponsible to say the least. A high myope with high astigmatism taking your advice will not be able to see at all, and it will hurt physically to look through them, and can cause damage doing so for any length of time.