Do glasses effect iron site shooting.

[sauer1911]

I use to wear glasses for Astigmatism, which is where you have 2 spots on the back of your eye where stuff focuses. Makes for a ghost shadow up and next to what your looking at.

Had Laser surgery, and now only need glasses to read up close.

When I shoot IDPA, I use my readers to see the sights, and do pretty good.

When I am shooting rifles with or without scopes, no glasses. Shooting my M&P15 5.56 with a Eotech scope, I keep both eyes open, and can hit steel at 450yds!

Laser eye surgery was awesome!

be safe

 

[morcey2]

ME: "Actually, that's kinda hot... "

HER: (Head hits desk.)

Did her head hit the desk, or did she decide that your head needed to hit the desk?

My eyes started having trouble focusing up close a little over a year ago. They've gotten to the point that I can't focus on anything that is closer than about 12" right now. That's on top of the wee bit of astigmatism that I already had. I haven't picked up reading glasses yet, but I will be soon.

Matt

 

[JR24]

I'm still young (low 30's) but after a ten year battle with denial I finally got glasses and found that I had to completely re-learn how to acquire irons quickly with them on. Somehow my focus was so much slower.

Better now, but still takes more effort.

Bonus is, I can actually SEE the target at ranges greater than about 10 yards.

 

[RetiredUSNChief]

Did her head hit the desk, or did she decide that your head needed to hit the desk?

My eyes started having trouble focusing up close a little over a year ago. They've gotten to the point that I can't focus on anything that is closer than about 12" right now. That's on top of the wee bit of astigmatism that I already had. I haven't picked up reading glasses yet, but I will be soon.

Matt

I'm sure she considered banging my head on the desk. Her response was "Is that ALL you ever think of?" I told her I couldn't help it...I married a redhead.

 

[drband]

I use readers from SAMs club. My progressives required a strange backward tilt of my head/neck. My accuracy has improved greatly since I switched. However, I don't think it matters at all for point shooting.

 

[Old Dog]

Web site.

Gun sight.

Of course, wearing glasses affects one's shooting iron-sighted guns.

At this point in my life, I require bi-focal lenses. Shooting iron-sighted rifles, I don't require corrective lenses -- the small aperture works fine for me. Handguns -- another story -- I use either a weaker version reading glasses or top-bifocals (with a slightly weaker magnification than I require for reading).

Getting "geezer eyes" does stink if you're a shooter. Just gotta try and see what works for you, though ...

 

[JTHunter]

Having worn glasses since the 1st grade, this has plagued me all my life.

Now, even normal-sized newsprint is unreadable beyond 6 inches w/o glasses.

Bifocals didn't help when I tried them several years ago and I went back to single-vision lenses. They are also less expensive.

Held at near "arms length", the best I can do is focus on the target @ 25 yds. and line up the front & rear sites (they are somewhat blurred) as best I can.

Now, to read a newspaper or work on the computer, I use an older pair of glasses with a pair of those reading glasses hanging in front, hooked to the temples of the prescription glasses. The glasses I use for full distance (driving, movie theaters, etc.) don't let me focus close enough to read comfortably and the readers on those glasses are too strong, making me crosseyed.

 

[Jim Watson]

Like deadin, I don't want to have to bob my head to clear up my sights in my progressives.
I have shooting glasses ground for the purpose, master eye focused on front sight, off eye at distance.
I sometimes practice self defense with my regular glasses, or none, just to know my capabilities and limitations.

JR24, if you are using your glasses to see the target, you are going about it wrong. The sights are more important.

 

[230RN]

fourdollarbill said,

As much as I've fought it, glasses now help me shooting any iron sighted handgun.
If I'd have accepted that a couple years ago, less ammo would have been wasted.

I hear that. Gone to scopes on rifles and laser sights on PDWs.

Been wanting to try one of those ocular diaphragms (with a small opening, like a peep sight) on my glassses as has been recommended by another olde pharte. Forgot what they call them. (Another Senior Symptom.) Trouble is, "Excuse me, Mr. Bad Guy, I have to put my diaphragm on before we engage" it not tactically appropriate. Hence the laser sights.

Drail said,

You must be able to resolve a sharp focus on the front sight and the light between it and the rear notch.

I've also wanted to open up the rear sight and put a bigger front post on a particular favorite long gun for which a scope is impossible. The present Patridge-style sights are much too fine for me nowadays, glasses or no.

High Expert remarked,

[QUOTE[Finally solved it on my bullseye guns. RedDot. Great invention.[/QUOTE]

Got a real cheapie BSA red dot for my M4gery just to try it out. Does work pretty good, but it's no target sight. Might go to a better quality one based on the encouraging results with the BSA.

Terry

 

[deadin]

Terry,
They're called an "Iris"and are adjustable as to hole size. They are also somewhat expensive. Champions Choice has a clamp on one for $65 and I believe the Merit suction cup mount one is a little more. They work as advertised but are basically useful for stationary target shooting as they cut your field of vision way down. A moving target would be very difficult to acquire and track using one.
If you go for one I might suggest the clamp type. I had a Merit a number of years ago and could never get it to where I was comfortable as the suction cup limited just where it could be placed on my glasses.
A way to "try out" one on the cheap is to take a piece of black tape and poke a small round hole in it and stick it to your lens. You might have to try different size holes and move it around a bit to find your sweet spot.......

Dean

 

[230RN]

Good advice, thanks !

 

[Eb1]

I vote - Yes, when shooting with traditional buckhorn style sights.
I vote - No, when shooting peep sights/ghost rings.

If you only have to focus on the front post like with peeps it helps tremendously. If you have to focus on the rear sight and the front like on my lever guns. Then I have problems. For pistol and revolver shooting I don't have any issues.

But now I shoot with both eyes open, and I have less trouble with the old irons, but I still prefer A2 sights and ghost rings when not using a scope, and if shooting a handgun I will generally just point shoot out to 25 yards.

 

[Blackbeard]

Do glasses effect iron site shooting.

I have been shooting at a quarry which might have been an iron quarry. It probably wasn't because of my glasses.

 

[captmoto]

I use cheap 1x reading glasses under my safety glasses. It's a little bulky but it works. It works well enough before I buy real .75 diopter glasses or get the mild cataracts removed.

 

[Ankeny]

I too am near sighted and I wear bifocals. Tried the progressive lenses but hated them. When I was shooting iron sights in USPSA I had shooting glasses made with the left lens (non-dominate eye) set for distance and the right lens set for the distance to the target. I also have double vision so I have prisms in my glasses to correct for that little issue.

After speaking with some of the older GM shooters who (like me) got tired of fighting the problem, I just shoot with a blurred front sight with both eyes open. I squint my left eye on difficult shots. At self defense or IPSC distances I am good to go. That translates into a 3 inch group at 25 yards. Longer range precision shooting is in my past.

Of course in competition I now shoot a red dot on my IPSC blaster and on my AR (or a scope).

 

[Deltaboy1984]

Yes and they work fine for me.

 

[sappyg]

I find myself needing glasses for up close and far. Old... Lol.
Has anyone shot iron sight revolver before and after glasses? How did it change or did it change the way you shoot.

Yes and no. When I was younger my near sited tendencies were not much of a problem.... Time goes on.
This may sound odd but, I have now moved on to bifocals and contacts. The odd thing is I have contacts for daily wear and contacts for shooting. The left eye focal plain stays the same but, on shooting days, I change the right contact for a focal plain of about 30" from my eye. Maybe I'm over doing it but it works for me. My optometrist suggested that I try it. I like it.
With both eyes open I can see the Front sight and the target just fine. It's funny how your brain can adjusts to this.
I tried progressives. Not my coup of tea. This has not changed the way I shoot. I'm not that good a shot anyway.