glasses

[Bill Foster]

Hi Folks,
As I age, I am more dependent on glasses to see. I went to the range to help a newbie learn their new handgun, and I realized that I need to make changes for shooting glasses. I found a strength that is a trade-off for sights and target acquisition, but if I leave those glasses at home, I have problems. A few years ago, I saw a video of the IPSC Masters (three gun as I recall) and the winner was a gent in his 60s. He was wearing glasses and a suction cup looking thing on his right (I suppose dominant) eye. Was this for shooting and if so, what is it called? I have used a pinhole in a piece of paper as reading glasses before, I was wondering if this was the same idea.

[Irish-Tech]

was it something like this?

[Bill Foster]

I think that is what he had. I don't think one could look at a site through it though. Thank you.

[jpr9954]

Hi Folks,
As I age, I am more dependent on glasses to see. I went to the range to help a newbie learn their new handgun, and I realized that I need to make changes for shooting glasses. I found a strength that is a trade-off for sights and target acquisition, but if I leave those glasses at home, I have problems. A few years ago, I saw a video of the IPSC Masters (three gun as I recall) and the winner was a gent in his 60s. He was wearing glasses and a suction cup looking thing on his right (I suppose dominant) eye. Was this for shooting and if so, what is it called? I have used a pinhole in a piece of paper as reading glasses before, I was wondering if this was the same idea.

I think you are talking about something like this.

http://www.meritcorporation.com/

I've used a cheaper version of that and it worked just OK. I eventually had a pair of shooting glasses made by Decot. My non-dominant eye has no correction but my shooting eye has about 50-60% of my normal reading glasses correction. This arrangement allows me to see both the sights and to see distance.

You could also go a bit cheaper by getting the stick-on bifocal by Optx 20/20. Just remember to get a weaker strength than your normal reading glasses.