Looking for some feedback on best shooting glasses that accept prescriptions. (Mods- if I posted this question in the wrong location please forgive me)

Am inclined to go with th style that uses inserts & can swap out lenses for various colors to fit the environment, but want to get some insight. Will be used for IDPA/ USPSA, sporting clays and bird hunting.

Any suggestions as to brands & things to consider? Thanks in advance!

Apparent I need some too. I spent a second trying to figure out what "RX shooting classes" were and If I knew anyone that would offer something like that.

Speaking of prescription shooting glasses, has anyone ever used classes that have your weak eye lens optimized for distance and your strong (sighting) eye optimized for a front sight focus?

I shoot best with my "computer" glasses since they focus at approximately arms length, so I get a nice sharp front sight, but everything farther away is blurry. This is OK while I'm shooting but I can't see if I hit the target until I switch glasses.

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Check out project Rudy.

http://www.rudyprojectusa.com/rudyrx.php

I've heard great things about them and they will be by next glasses.

I use the Oakley Crosshair 2.0
http://www.oakley.com/products/6465/23878

These are sunglasses but I have a pair that is clear Rx.

Great wrap around and full eye protection and clear field of view.

Are those oversized like aviator glasses?

Yes and contours to the face (wrap around).

Prescription glasses for shooting are highly specialized. The way they're built will depend on what individual use you want them for. Clays and Prone rifle shooting require the use of the top of the lense more than center. Bench Shooting allows one to be more "heads up" and use the center of the lens.

I have a rather stiff correction and being a n old fart, tri-focals to boot. It can give me a sore neck when trying to find the right part of the lens in order to see a clear picture in the scope.

I am considering getting my next set of glasses made by a Licensed Dispensing Optician in Everett that kind of specializes in shooting glasses. Who knows, maybe he'll let me bring along my firearms so he can individually fit the glasses for me.

As for the different "colors", over the years I passed on the "cool factor" and just use the best glasses I can find, then use "clip on's" for any sun or contrast needs.

BTW, don't overlook the fact that shooting glasses do a lot more than just let you see or knock down the bright light. They also have to stop flying pieces from damaging your eyes. All too often glasses up to that task, and prescription too, don't really look all that "cool'. I'll take my eyes over cool any day.

Care to share his contact details? I'd love to find an optician that doesn't freak out when I mention shooting or guns.

Thanks for all the input- will be reviewing this & making my decision soon

Before PRK I used these for shooting. I didn't have a problem with besides them fogging up wen you start sweating.

http://www.revisionmilitary.com/store/s ... eluxe.html

His name is Don Reynolds and he has his "shop" in Everett.

Phone 425-355-2377 also at 425-337-3988

Website: http://everetteyesrite.com/

If not convenient to you, maybe he can recommend someone closer.

I haven't used him yet but others at the gun club have and said "Good Shooting Glasses". Some of these "opticians" are shooters too.

I apologize for bump the old topic, but I have some interesting observations that I would like to share, maybe this will help someone in the future because once I was on the lookout for useful advice.
Here's how it worked for me. that's exactly what I do for handgun shooting. I found that getting any sort of wrap-around lens in a bifocal was darned near impossible, and that a single-vision prescription was way cheaper than bifocal, or my regular variable lenses (which would probably equate to tri-focal).

I measured the actual distance from my eye to my front sight when in normal stance (5-inch barrel), and explained to my optometrist what I wanted: dominant eye (right) focused right there, left eye focused at a full distance. I'm on my third pair like that now, and they work as well as anything I've found.

For real-world handgun practice, I simply wear my normal small-lensed variables (spectacles got tiny, and short-pants got long; who can figure fashion). A 10-degree tilt of my head and I'm looking over the top of my glasses. I can see the front sight acceptably that way, though not crispy, the target will be a blur, worsening with distance.

This is where low-light training comes in. You use the flash only briefly, to identify the target. You flash, identify, extinguish, move, and shoot. Same thing--only simpler--with your regular glasses (assuming it's easy for you to look over the rims). Head up; identify target through a distance-vision portion of glasses at top of the lens; head down slightly to look over glasses and obtain best-case sight picture with a handgun, move, and shoot.

All will be blurry once you look over your glasses, however, as with the flashlight, you've accomplished a clear-target visual and can shift--so long as the shift is in microseconds--to a less-clear image of the target. But the same rules apply both for flashlight and old-guy combatives: You don't shoot what you can't identify.

That's why I asked earlier about your intended use. The two different single-vision lenses option like ESS https://secretstorages.com/best-shooting-glasses/ is fine for conventional-sight handgun, but is miserable for red-dot or holographic optics, or for iron-sight rifles.

Let us know what you decide!

I don't think I even was a member when this thread started, but still a good one. For me personally, if you have a uniform prescription anyway, I like the Oakley lenses because they wrap around, so when I look out the corner, it is still the same as if I look head on. If your prescription is mild enough, I highly recommend. I have used the G30 lens (a pinkish hue) and it works well at indoor ranges as well. For sunny outdoors, any of the polarized iridium tints should serve you well. I have the VR28, which is really like, but they've been discontinued.

If you have any kind of veteran/Mil/First Responder status, check out oakleysi.com as they'll be about half the cost of trying to get prescription sunglasses elsewhere.