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I need some help. I wear contacts for normal vision and use reading "cheaters" for small print or extended reading. (Have you noticed that print seems to be shrinking recently; sometimes while I'm looking at it!) My normal prescription is +2.00 and has been for about 4 years.

When shooting, I currently use normal sun glasses (different colored lenses for different days), but I used to use glasses that were +1.00 reading “cheaters.� With the +1.00 cheater, my front sight was crystal clear and targets out to about 20 yds. were only slightly blurrier than normal.

I experimented with the stick-on bifocals by cutting them smaller and installing them in the top portion of some Ray-Ban sunglasses. This way, they are not in my regular field of view, but when I'm in my normal shooting stance with my head bent slightly down, I'm looking through the +1.00 bifocal portion of the lense. This works great! So, when I went to see my ophthalmologist for my regular checkup, I asked him to give me a prescription for bifocals, but with only a +1.00 "bump" and placing it in the top of the lense. In essence, my bifocals would be 0 correction in all of the lense, and +1.00 in the top. He won't do it! (I actually have a funny story about explaining why I wanted it, but I'm not putting that on the Internet.)

So, does anyone know an optometrist that is a shooter and will understand why I want this? I like my doctor and I'm not going to change for this reason, I just want an optometrist to write the prescription so I can get some glasses cut.

Thanks,
Chas.