Rifle shooting and high prescription glasses?

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I am fairly new to shooting. I'm better with pistols than rifles (e.g. as far as is average performance with each).

I have strong prescription glasses - I can't see 3 inches in front of my face (although as a young man with the right lenses in front I see fine). They are high index glass (to make them look less like coke bottles) and have average size lenses.

Thing is, when shooting through iron sights, I look through the top-left of the right lens. The way my glasses are made, things tend to fuzz out when not looking dead ahead.

I used to wear contacts; but my last pair were too thick/were starting to be a pain - and juggling contacts is something I'm not sure I want to mess with any more.

I'm going to the optometrist on Tuesday - does anyone here have any suggestions?

thanks,
Battler.
 
i had the same problem with vision ... when i did archery as a kid it got kind of annoying wearing glasses ... think bowstring catching on the edge of the frame and you get the idea ... i didn't lose an ear, and plenty of people are in kyudo with huge plastic-framed specs, but it wasn't really my cup of tea.

contacts too thick? try disposables from bausch-lomb or acuvue, just pop 'em in and wear em for 2 weeks straight, then trash them. problem you'll have is dry-eye from shooting (not blinking) so you'll need to get eyedrops for contacts ... cost about 4 bucks at any local pharmacy.

alternately, just get laser eye surgery. it costs about a thousand for each eye now. from what i understand for very advanced sight impairment cases distance vision can be fixed up but reading vision can't, so talk to an ophthalmologist in your area about it. ask around and get the most experienced one you can, as the surgery is very delicate and it's worth paying the extra few hundred for a skilled hand.

hope this helps.
 
I wear trifocals. A solution which works for me is to have a small lens ground and glued to the left upper corner of my right (master eye) lens. It is oval, about 3/8" by 1/2"--it doesn't look oversize on the aviator-style glasses I wear.

With it, the iron sights of a rifle or of a pistol (Weaver stance) are in sharp focus; I just shoot at a slightly burry target.

Hope this helps,

Art
 
I was going to suggest something along the same lines as Art. Have the optormitrist ground the right script into the lense where you look through to view the sights.
 
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