Can anyone provide me with a recommendation for high-quality prescription shooting glasses?

Ideally, I'd like one nice-quality pair that I can use for all my shooting sports--mostly pistol shooting, but some rifle shooting and sporting clays as well.

I'd also like a tint that can be used in all daylight shooting conditions (low-light, bright light, cloudy, snow, etc.).

I know that's a lot to ask, but any personal insight or recommendations would be much appreciated. I'm willing to invest the $$$ in a good pair, but want to be sure I'm spending wisely.

There are many, fine, high-quality glasses available for the shooting sports, and probably as many opinions as to which are the best. The one I use has multiple, changeable lenses, which makes it handy when you are trying to find the greatest contrast with the background against which you are shooting.

I use the Native Eyewear Nano3, which has a variety of lense colors and light transmission ratings, making it easy to select a lense for bright, cloudy, snowy, dark background, light background, etc.

Not cheap, but you can find a deal on Ebay now and again. Just Google it and see if it might be right for you.

I've read buy trifocals with the top lens of a strength which let's you focus perfectly on the front sight of your handgun. Need a gun friendly optometrist and not a nervouse nellie for the eye doc, tho for when you pull your pistol at the eye exam..

Good advice.

I could never find glasses that allowed me proper vision to shoot well. A man gave me the same advice. Get a dr that is a serious shooter. I did and not only did I get glasses that worked great, but also he and I have enjoyed many hours of shooting the bull in his office about guns but also a lot of hours at the range together.

A non shooter will not be able to know the issues a shooter faces when it comes to vision. Get a dr that really is serious about shooting. Just call each one in the phone book and ask if they are familar with shooting and know the problems of shooters.

I don't need bi-focals (yet), but I am near-sighted. I can see the front sight fine--it's what's beyond it that gives me trouble.

I am not a particularly proficient shooter, by any means, but the advice on how to shoot a handgun is "front sight, front sight, front sight!" This means the front sight is to be in focus, and the target is to be blurry. It is counterintuitive, but the way to do it. It is impossible for us all to focus on both simultaneously, even with young eyes and 20-20 vision.

Maybe what you need for shooting is a set of bifocals where the top is just clear glass and the bottom is for your nearsightedness. That way you focus on the frontsight through the clear glass when shooting, and tilt your head back to look through the nearsighted lens below at the results of your shots.

I have (with prior permission) brought my handgun to the optometrist office and had him make up shooting glasses (handgun only) with the lens adjusted for proper focus in the front sight. Since I now shoot with a red dot for any handgun competition, it isn't necessary.

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You are getting good advice. Focus on your front sight and keep it lined up with your rear sight and let the target be blurred. Try this extend your arm and point you finger at the end of a soup can. Your finger will not shake or move off that can. So if your sights are lined up and you have good trigger control you will hit your target when the gun is fired. It all sounds so easy but it's hard to do. Don

PS I had the doctor make me one whole lens so I can focus on the front sight. The other lens is made to my normal prescription. I normally wear trifocals.

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