When the eye doc refused to change my glasses prescription last year with the news that I had cataracts so bad new specs would do no good, I bit the bullet (had to; couldn't hit anything shooting it!) and got lined up for surgery on both eyes (a week apart). Now I have artificial lenses and can see things at a distance I hadn't been able to see since I turned thirty (38-years ago!) and discovered things didn't really have a tannish tint to them. But the good news had it's limits and the length of my arm was it; within that distance my "new eyes" didn't help (other than to equalize the amount of blur on both sides). The bifocals I had made didn't work for shooting (tilting your head back so the bifocal part of the lens is functional looks and feels stupid), so I've been trying to find a cost-effective way to see the front sight of a pistol, the buckhorns and the bead, or the red dot or crosshairs of a scope. I had some 2.5 magnification readers at home from my pre-operation days but they made the area beyond the front sight a total blur and since I was trained to be aware of what your target was doing that was a total failure. At the suggestion of a friend I bought a cheap pair of 1.25 magnification readers and that seems to have cured my problem. I haven't tried them with all my various pistols and rifles but so far they let me see the sights without the target dissolving into mush and that's what I was looking for. It's not perfect but still a damn-sight better than the brownish blur I was living with before the operations. Get your eyes checked and find out just how good (or bad) your vision really is and act accordingly. Believe me you won't regret it!