Getting older sucks

[jmorris]

Well, it's better than the alternative.

I really should have trifocals. I have to take my bifocals off to see the computer screen well. As it happens that's about front sight distance so I take them off at the range.

[anygunanywhere]

My opthamologist set my bifocal contacts so I can better focus on my front sight with my right eye. Not worth spit for reading but reading glasses handles that. He understood my request since he is a shooter.

[RoyGBiv]

WifeGBiv has contacts done that way.
After an initial adjustment period, she's happy with this combination.

[rentz]

I really need to ask about this at my next app. I don't have bifocals but I find it hard i to focus through the glasses sometimes mostly at indoor ranges though the yellow tented safety glasses over my eye glasses did help amp up the light some for focusing

[oljames3]

My current glasses are progressive. It's taken some months to get used to them in all aspects, but my shooting did improve immediately.

[twomillenium]

I had glasses made that put a small section of reading bifocal, tuned in on front sight distance, about 3/4 of the way up on the right lens and a very small bifocal on the bottoms so that I would not have to take glasses off to read or write. They work great! I realized I had to do something like this when I was giving a private class to some ladies and I noticed they were holding their chins way up. I made the comment that they too must have progressive. They responded that that is they way the instructor held his head (me). I guess you must really watch what your doing when teaching newbies, they take everything literal because they have nothing to but your actions and teachings to go by.

[C-dub]

I had my eyes lasered 10-12 years ago. Distance vision is still around 20/15 - 20/20 ish. I started needing reading glasses for things at about elbow distance around 8 years ago. I'm not doing to bad for 52, but I'm getting a little worried something stupid is going to happen any day/month/year now. For now, I'm not getting older all that quickly.

[rdcrags]

On one of my implants, he made an error calculating the curvature. The right eye is better than 20-20. Now known as"eagle eye." Can see the flag on the moon.

[LTUME1978]

Andy,

I have done the same thing in my quest for the solution to getting old. I am a few months shy of 62 and have worn trifocals for 11 years. When I started shooting pistols again after the 2008 election, I had to find a solution. For street wear, I had quadrifocals made. They are trifocals with the intermediate range (front site length) also in the top of the lenses so that I can put my head down slightly and see my front site. Problem is that now the only lab that made then has stopped. I have worn computer glasses for IDPA matches as it gives a larger field of vision (at front sight length) but I can't see if I am hitting anything and that won't work on the street (I am blind as a bat). So, I had some glasses made as you described several years ago. I will wear them on the street some but prefer my quadrifocals as long as the prescription still works for me. The glasses you describe work well for matches as I can shoot with both eyes open and see the holes in the targets (shooting 200 grain SWC 45 ACP). I don't know if I could see 9 mm holes, have not shot that recently but will try next time I am out to see if I can. Good luck with your glasses experience.

[Vol Texan]

My current glasses are progressive. It's taken some months to get used to them in all aspects, but my shooting did improve immediately.

Does it hurt to say that? I think I'd go blind before getting used to anything that supports the progressive, leftist, Democrat side.

Oh, you mean progressive lenses...ok, nevermind.

[oljames3]

My current glasses are progressive. It's taken some months to get used to them in all aspects, but my shooting did improve immediately.

Does it hurt to say that? I think I'd go blind before getting used to anything that supports the progressive, leftist, Democrat side.

Oh, you mean progressive lenses...ok, nevermind.

Thanks! I needed that.

[cmgee67]

My current glasses are progressive. It's taken some months to get used to them in all aspects, but my shooting did improve immediately.

Does it hurt to say that? I think I'd go blind before getting used to anything that supports the progressive, leftist, Democrat side.

Oh, you mean progressive lenses...ok, nevermind.

I SEE what you did there