Prescription shooting glasses,what are you using?

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I simply wear what I wear nearly every day—inexpensive wire-frame glasses with medium-sized lenses made of polycarbonate (as most eyeglass lenses are these days). That said, depending on shooting habits and needs, one may need to consider the prescriptions used to produce the lenses. Some shooters find that having a “shooting eye” lens prescription for one eye (usually the dominant eye) and a “regular” lens prescription for the other eye is helpful or even necessary. Progressive lenses can be especially challenging. (Or at least I find them so.) Another consideration is sight selection. Iron sights v. red dots v. scopes, etc. can make (fairly obvious) differences in spectacle need, style, etc.
 
Wiley-X Sabers w/an RX insert. Let's me have different RX'd for different needs as well as being able to change out to clear or tint as needed. Also, they come with regular ear tips as well as an elastic band which means a better seal and less pinching under the ear muffs.
 
What are you looking for. My self I need tri focal prescriptions. A hand gun sight front sight held at arms length is out of focus for either close or distance viewing A third prescription band runs across the top of the bifocal and brings the front sight or anything at that distance into focus.
In practice one holds the head straight and moves the eyes up or down to select the lense. The frames are just ordinary frames of ones choice. As noted above most lenses are shatter proof.
 
Looking for a set of clear prescription shooting glasses. Thoughts, experiences?
You're a Trap shooter, Decots or Rangers, or if you have the $$$, Pilla.
For rifle and pistol, I usually use my everyday glasses.
I actually went a different route for my Trapshooting glasses:

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Stetson aviator semi rimless frame, with NIkon Transistions in Amethyst; makes the clays really stand out, and as you can see, they get dark enough in the sun. I set the OC up high, to the point I have to walk with my head down with them on because of the induced prism. I also have the nosepads pinched in so they sit high. I've only shot with them once so far, but they work great! Yes, that is ice in my beard, we shoot Trap year round up here.
 
I wear the same glasses for everything. They are bifocals. I switched from bifocal to progressive a few years ago and found that they were very difficult to shot with because finding the sweet spot of lens for sight to eye distance was just awful. Bifocal lenses worked best for me. I one easily get sharp focus on the font sight and by raising my glance I can see the target sharply if I wish c=t do so.
 
I’m badly nearsighted. I usually wear contact lenses for peripheral vision abd because regular eyeglass lenses are heavy due to their thickness, even with high index lenses. Even so, I splurged a few years ago and got a pair of prescription inserts to go with Smith Optics Aegis Compact wraparound safety eyewear. The inserts stay put inside the eye pro, and the prescription was right on spec. I don’t think that particular model is available for prescription inserts anymore, but I’m guess Smith Optics may offer other models for their prescription inserts.

Otherwise, if your prescription isn’t that strong, you might be able to get some prescription wraparound safety lenses. Wraparounds can’t be done with high prescriptions because of the distorted “fishbowl” effect caused by the curvature of the lens. But I understand they’re fine for weaker myopic prescriptions.
 
I wear regular tri-focal glasses with polycarbonate lenses every day. For handguns they work fine but using a rifle the front sight is not clear with a normal cheek weld. If I lifted my cheek and looked through the top bi-focal the front sight was sharp. I tried reading glasses when shooting rifles bit targets were fuzzy and when hunting this was not acceptable. I found stick-on bifocals online for about $20. They are flexible, applied and removed easily, can be trimmed to size and are available in different diopters. I cut one to an oval shape, wet it and stuck it on the right lens in the upper left corner where the front sight appears when the rifle is shouldered. The front sight is now sharp and I can see things at normal distances when hunting or target shooting. I only apply the stick-on when needed because my wife thinks I look dorky with my right lens looking funny. Life is good.

Bob
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I use RE Rangers (yes, it's actual name).
Same here; the RE stands for Randolph Engineering. Tom at Tx Shooter's Optical is a great guy to deal with. If you are unsure of what color to get, call him and tell him about your background, target colors, etc., and he will suggest certain colors - and if you decide you don't like those colors, he'll let you swap them out.

I use a medium purple since Florida is green background and the skies are not always sunny (contrary to the state marketing)
 
I just asked my "Eye Guy" to write me a scrip to put the front sight of a handgun in focus,,,
Then I had him order the glasses with appropriately rated "safety lenses".

With generic frames they only cost me a bit over $75.

Aarond

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