vision help for competition shooting
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imashooter2
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Progressive lenses saved my shooting hobby. Be aware that the day after you get them, you'll be devastated by your inability to rapidly focus on anything. A month after you get them, you'll be amazed that your brain automatically and instantly positions your head for the vision distance you need.
amazingflapjack
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There is a company that makes an eye piece that allows adjustment to an :external retina" that works well. I suggest the more expensive glasses frame mounted motel. Also, and what I did, you can go to your eye doc and tell him what you are trying to do. Mine made me a pair that focus out where the front sight is, then I view the target in peripheral vision. This also works well, and functions as safety glasses as well.
I have been talking about this with a USPSA-shooting friend who is encouraging me to join him in his fun. I am thinking of the little red dot sights, like the Burris Fastfire and Leupold Delta Point. I assume these will throw me into some competitive never-neverland, but if you are just wanting to shoot and not concerned about what category your scores happen to land in, it might be an option. At my age, I am not at all concerned about scores and competition, but I do like to shoot.
I can't see something like the Merit device working for me in a game like this where you are constantly moving around. The problem I see with the dot sights is that they are expensive to mount them properly (usually requires milling your slide to get them mounted low and sturdily), and if you want to shoot more than one gun, the expense would be multiplied.
I will be interested to see what other USPSA-shooters have to say.
I can't see something like the Merit device working for me in a game like this where you are constantly moving around. The problem I see with the dot sights is that they are expensive to mount them properly (usually requires milling your slide to get them mounted low and sturdily), and if you want to shoot more than one gun, the expense would be multiplied.
I will be interested to see what other USPSA-shooters have to say.
scooterj67
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Many of the guys that I shoot with have glasses made which the strong eye focus is set to the front sight and the weak eye is set for distance viewing. They claim that is easier to shoot with both eyes open with this set up.
CGM
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Merit diopter works very well. Forces your eye to focus both front and back sight while keeping the target downrange clear.
imashooter2
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I shoot USPSA and ICORE with progressive lenses. The issue with bifocals is head position. Progressives give you an intermediate length focus for the front sight without the head tilt required for standard bifocal use.
The Merit attachment is great stuff for Bullseye, but not much for the shoot and move games
The Merit attachment is great stuff for Bullseye, but not much for the shoot and move games
Having just had cataract surgery, and having my vision corrected for distance,I found I needed +1.0 readers to see my computer screen, and found they allow me to get a fantastically clear sight picture. ask your optician what power you would need to see your front sight.
That would give me a headache like no other!
I have progressives and next trip to the eye doc I'm gonna ask about special shooting glasses - to put the focus on the front sight. Still debating of I want them to be progressive otherwise..as in the top is distance (which i've needed since teen years) and the bottom half for the front site of my pistol.
A scope isn't a problem as i can adjust them to work wtih our without my glasses.
I have used for dry fire - but not competition - Computer Focus glasses. I got those at a local drug store for about $25.
I need them for computer work - and the monitor is about the same distance as my front sight.
I would wear safety glasses over them at the range.
The reason I don't use this in IDPA is that I am thinking about self defense while competing and I would not have access to those glasses in that situation.
I need them for computer work - and the monitor is about the same distance as my front sight.
I would wear safety glasses over them at the range.
The reason I don't use this in IDPA is that I am thinking about self defense while competing and I would not have access to those glasses in that situation.
I just wear my progreessive lens a little low and look over them, The sights are very sharp and under 35 yards, the bulleye is quite acceptable. It helps me focus on the front sight instead of the bullseye. With a 6 or 8 3/8 barrel, the front sight is sharp enough to look thru the upper(distance) part of the lens and this then produces a sharper target.
photoracer
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I shoot both IDPA and USPSA Limited with iron or FO sights (I shoot USPSA Open also). On a suggestion from another shooter I had a set of glasses made up with, like you said, my dominant right eye set for a sharp focus at approximately 18 inches, and my left eye correction set normally for distance vision. Once I put these on at the match it only takes my eyes about 10-15 minutes to make the adjustment and from then on I am good to go. When shooting in Open I don't have to because the red dot focuses to the eye as if it is far away.
So I shoot red dot guns when I can and then change glasses when I want to shoot iron. I have also found that I can often shoot with f/r fiber optic sights without having to use the special glasses in some cases.
flyfishdave
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Check out these articles by Dr. Norman Wong OD. While more geared to bullseye shooting, there are several pearls in the articles worth taking away. A fellow senior champion clay shooter has glasses made using some of the guidelines presented by these articles and still shoots perfect rounds with ease.
Dr. Norman Wong Articles as posted to the Bullseye List
Dr. Norman Wong Articles as posted to the Bullseye List
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