Fuzzy Sight Picture

unspellable · 09-19-2002, 02:08 PM

You want the front sight sharp, let the rear sight and target land where they may.

You want the glasses to protect your eyes, most glasses, even safety glasses, are not qualified as shooting glasses. Real honest to God shooting glasses will mean a prescription pair from scratch. Nine tenths of the optomitrists out there won't have a clue.

Cheap fix: If you have an older second pair of glasses to play with, go to the drugstore. You can buy little non-prescription paste on lenses intended to add a bifocal feature to non-prescription sunglasses. You will want a strength of 1.25 or 1.50 diopter for shooting a handgun. Locate the spot in the distance area of your glasses (only one side) where you can see the sights without getting a crick in your neck and past the little lens in that spot. Throw the other one away. (Or mail it to me, I can fix up another pair.)

If your distance vision needs very little correction you can do this trick using a pair of non-prescription shooting glasses or a pair of goggles.

If fuzziness in the rear sight or target are really bothering you, paste on a little black ring like a note book paper hole reinforcement. The smaller the central hole, the greater the depth of field, but also the harder to find your sights.

Tacky and unrefined, but oh, so cheap!

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09-19-2002, 02:08 PM	#4
unspellable User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Iowa Posts: 768 Thanks: 0 Thanked 19 Times in 11 Posts	You want the front sight sharp, let the rear sight and target land where they may. You want the glasses to protect your eyes, most glasses, even safety glasses, are not qualified as shooting glasses. Real honest to God shooting glasses will mean a prescription pair from scratch. Nine tenths of the optomitrists out there won't have a clue. Cheap fix: If you have an older second pair of glasses to play with, go to the drugstore. You can buy little non-prescription paste on lenses intended to add a bifocal feature to non-prescription sunglasses. You will want a strength of 1.25 or 1.50 diopter for shooting a handgun. Locate the spot in the distance area of your glasses (only one side) where you can see the sights without getting a crick in your neck and past the little lens in that spot. Throw the other one away. (Or mail it to me, I can fix up another pair.) If your distance vision needs very little correction you can do this trick using a pair of non-prescription shooting glasses or a pair of goggles. If fuzziness in the rear sight or target are really bothering you, paste on a little black ring like a note book paper hole reinforcement. The smaller the central hole, the greater the depth of field, but also the harder to find your sights. Tacky and unrefined, but oh, so cheap! unspellable