How do you handle being farsighted?

[Eddie]

I'm farsighted, but I'm also 20/20 corrected wearing bifocal glasses. When I try to target shoot at the pistol range with a three-dot sight pistol, I can raise my head slightly to improve the vision on the sights through the bifocals (and the target gets blurry), or I can lower my head where I can see the target plainly (but the three-dot sights are blurry). Has anyone here ever ordered single correction glasses with an optimum focal point maybe at 3-4 feet? Seems like it would be a good compromise between the sights and the target. Any suggestions welcome here or eddie1551@yahoo.com .

[The Annoyed Man]

I just cuss a lot.

[Oldgringo]

I just cuss a lot.

[Pawpaw]

I took an unloaded pistol with me to the optometrist. She tested me with it & gave me a prescription for single-vision glasses optimized for the front sight.

They work quite well at 3 or 7 yards, but less so at 15 yards. I can't even tell if I hit the target at 25 yards.

[gfmun]

I had some. Out to maybe 10 yards was not bad, after that the target was mostly missing. But.....I could see the sights...



George

[johncanfield]

I've been wrestling with the very same problem for the last 3,000 rounds sent downrange. Just a couple of weeks ago I had a bit of a shooting breakthrough (epiphany as the fancy folks say) - I focus downrange with the three dot sights blurry but lined up. It's kind of difficult to describe but if you have ever shot skeet, clays, birds with a shotgun, it's sort of the same principal - at least for me. You don't line up the shotgun sights, you have a particular position the shotgun rests against your shoulder/cheek and you 'learn' where the shotgun will shoot as you focus on where the duck/clay/whatever will be in the future. I'm learning where the blurry dots should be in relation to the target .

At least this is my recipe for defensive shooting. If you are target shooting, maybe a different prescription would be a big help - however I have progressive lenses and I can't imagine a change that would make a big difference.

[cheezit]

I live in a world were evrything is slight blury. there are no blades of grass just green clumps. been that way for 20 or so years. thankfully it has not gotten worse. the blury is something that I have learned to deal with glasses or no glass. big front site like 24/7 work well for me. put front sight on target and squeeze trigger. great for combat accuarcy. with a lrger front dot you dont really need the rear site and "normal" defence range. IMO anyway.

[PeteCamp]

Rear sight??? What rear sight?

[MoJo]

Sights? I don' see no stinking sights.

Actually, my progressive lenses give me a pretty decent sight picture. As long as I can see the front sight blurry or sharp I can hit the 10 ring on a B27 at 15 yards four out of five. I still can shoot a 250 on demand over the CHL test course without corrective lenses and I'm 65 with a pretty bad astigmatism.

[snatchel]

I just cuss a lot.

Haha. True story. Prior to entering the SWCC program, I was also far sighted. Because any EOD/SEAL/SWCC/PILOTS all get first dibs on lasik surgery.. and it's completely free by the military. Best couple of thousand dollars that I didn't have to spend.... period. Strange that I was far sighted .. I started wearing glasses at 16, and wore them till I was 19 and got lasik done.

[PeteCamp]

Grrrrroooowl...grumble...mutter. TAM I'm comin' over to your side. CURMUDGEONS FOREVER

[MikeJ]

Just tilt my head until my gradient bifocals bring the front sight into focus. We're supposed to focus on the front sight, aren't we?

Some of my pistols have Crimson Trace Lasergrips, which make it easy to focus on the little red dot. I'm afraid that I need some sort of optics to shoot a rifle in my old age.

[tomc]

Got my glasses made so my strong dominant eye is focused on my front sight and my weak eye is corrected for distance. You might try going to a store that sells a lot of reading glasses (Wallyworld) and buy some weak corrective stick-on plastic lenses and put one on your dominant side only to bring your dominant focal point in closer.