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Glasses
and contacts
I am
new to shooting with glasses and I hate it! I want to go to contact
lenses. Should I tell the doctor that I need to focus at the sight
radius or should I tell him I need to see at a distance? I shoot an
ar15 in dcm matches. My 45-year-old eyes are starting to slip. I got
my first glasses this month. After shooting with them I think
contacts will help with a lot of the problems the glasses cause. Any
help would be much appreciated...pat
Glasses
and contacts
jetmech: Have you considered trying a Jones diopter rear sight?
Depending on where your eyesight is, you may be able to shoot
without prescription glasses using a Jones sight. I'm 48 and have to
use reading glasses, but a plus .5 diopter lets me see a good, sharp
front sight. Bob's phone no. is 602-840-2176,Mon.-Thu.6-8pm MST.
Glasses
and contacts
Hi
Pat, - - My best solution has been to order a pair of Knobloch
Shooting glasses. Have the prescription lens measured for the exact
distance from your shooting eye to the front sight This works well.
I wear bi-focal lenses, and have considered another option - have
the shooting eye lens ground for the eye-to-sight correction, and
the other lens ground for the normal bi-focal prescription. Sound as
if it should work, but I haven't tried it (yet!). Hope this helps.
-Bob Hendry
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and contacts
I
normally wear contacts during matches, however, I have had problems
with my vision 'fading' if the contacts dry out a bit or float when
I blink. This isn't too cool during the rapids since one second you
have good focus on the front sight and the next you see nothing but
a gray blur. I keep a spare set of glasses and a contact case and
solution in my shooting kit just in case I run into problems. If you
have problems seeing the front sight, I concur with the Jones
diopter. It does help.
Glasses
and contacts
The
Jones diopters are at
http://www.bjonessights.com
Glasses
and contacts
Hi
Jet Mech, hope this helps. I have worn daily wear 'toric' contacts
for some years now and have enjoyed some success. As you can surmise
from the other posts in this thread contacts, more precisely your
reaction to them is a very individual thing. When I started shooting
in competition I recognized some problems with regular glasses,
specifically parallax, because I didn't think I was looking through
the optical center of the lens over my shooting eye. Initially,
after getting used to wearing them I did well with the contacts, but
a few years back I was reading Jim Owens book, "The big Lie" or what
ever and when I tried his drill of putting a pencil mark on the rear
of the front sight I realized I couldn't see it very well. At first
opportunity, I returned to my practitioner, rifle and all, and they
tried different lenses until I could see the front sight clearly. I
tried this offhand as well as prone because my stock weld is
different in each position. And a few years later, at Perry I had
Bob Jones install one of his lenses in the rear aperture of my M1A,
and the combination still works great. The problems still reside
with the jerk behind the trigger but I can't blame it on vision. I
do notice that if I don't break the shoot quickly after I get on the
gun my accuracy drops off noticeably, but from all my experience
laying on the gun trying to dress up the sight picture is futile,
because your accuracy will deteriorate while you hold your breath
anyway! I once spoke with a Navy optometrist that is also a
Distinguished shooter after he examined me while we were both
stationed in Italy, and his comment then was to not waste my time
with contacts, a good set of Knoblochs would serve me better.
Obviously I didn't pursue his advise, my feeling has always been
that fooling around adjusting them on the firing line detracted from
the time I spend on other equally important things while I get ready
to shoot especially if I'm trying to do all that stuff during a
hurried prep time. I really do feel that if you can get used to
wearing them, and take the time with your practitioner to get the
right diopter actually using the rifle to do so that contacts are an
excellent choice, but as I mentioned initially it is a highly
personal things, one size does definitely not fit all! Sorry, for
the long post, but not a simple subject. HTH
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and contacts
Pat, I'm not the HP guru, but I've been shooting most of my life. I
must say that my experiences with contact lenses and any sort of
precision shooting are similar to dmcali and GcS's, namely no
success, so far. When I concentrate, they "gray out"; I imagine that
they are drying out from my not blinking often enough. When I blink,
the world clears, but I must "rebuild" my sight picture.... then it
grays out... ad infinitum.... I just put up with precautions to
avoid fogging and sweat streaks on my safety (-1.50 prescription)
glasses. I have a friend that shoots smallbore and a bit of HP, who
says that the old style hard contacts are the way to go, but I
haven't shelled out the bucks for an experimental pair of contacts,
yet. HTH, Tommy
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and contacts
I have used Champion frames for most of my shooting career and have
never worn contacts; call me paranoid, but I have never liked the
concept of putting something in my eyes. I have several friends who
have alternated between contacts and glasses over the years and the
main complaint they have always had over contacts is because the eye
is open for a somewhat unnaturally long period, they find they
suffer more from dust and dryness than when they wear contacts
normally. One good friend of mine used to reckon that in the
mornings he needed at least 90 minutes before he could shoot in
contacts. The universal problem with shooting glasses is the
weather, but I just carry around a lot of chamois and towels! - Bill
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