Glasses for Target Shooting

dCorbus

Hoping to get myself a pair or two of prescription glasses specifically for target shooting (Indoor .22 and Outdoor Fullbore, both usually shot prone).

My usual glasses are starting to wreck my head!:mad: Always slipping down, top of the glasses in the way of the scope eyepiece and rear aperture - So want to try to remove at least one variable from the equation!

Any advice on what to get and where to get it?

Tried Hempenstall's in Dublin today - Very helpful, but not terribly well up on the details of types of glasses needed.

rrpc

You need something like these:



Except you need the wobbly nose piece to clear the sights:



The straight nose piece is fine for pistol.

http://www.euroshooting.eu/en/index.php?id=strelecke_bryle

Good value and good service.

intershoot

dCorbus wrote: »

Hoping to get myself a pair or two of prescription glasses specifically for target shooting (Indoor .22 and Outdoor Fullbore, both usually shot prone).

My usual glasses are starting to wreck my head!:mad: Always slipping down, top of the glasses in the way of the scope eyepiece and rear aperture - So want to try to remove at least one variable from the equation!

Any advice on what to get and where to get it?

Tried Hempenstall's in Dublin today - Very helpful, but not terribly well up on the details of types of glasses needed.

The glasses shown are fine for prone shooting, and some of the makes you could look at are Knoblock, Varga, MEC, Gehmann or Champion as they seem to be the most popular.

Have a look at http://www.intershoot.co.uk/acatalog/Varga_Frames.html

You then generally have to go to your own optician, explain what it is you want, and show him the size of the lens holder you have. I think from talking to an optician that shoots, its actually more important to be able to focus accurately on the front sight than the target as you can centre a blur, but not the other way round.

Hope this is some use!!

:cool:

sfakiaman

Came across this site the other day http://www.hansenseagleeye.com/. They do bifocal glasses but with the close up part (if you know what I mean) positioned to see through scope sights or over pistol sights. Not for dedicated small bore target shooting maybe but could be a great idea for pistol or hunters.

Sparks

If you're going to get shooting frames dCorbus, the one bit of advice I'd give is to buy the simplest cheapest set you can. The fancier sets are adjustable so you could shoot prone and standing and kneeling with one set in theory, but in practice you just wear out the frames faster and you never get the adjustments right going from position to position. Get cheap frames, set them up for one position and then if you start shooting something else a lot, get another set of cheap frames and set them up for the new position. It'll last a lot longer.

Also, there's the option of the headband-mounted lens, that's about half the price of frames:


(There's probably cheaper ones than the MEC out there )

demonloop

If you want a realy cheap solution, just buy one of the cheap shooting headbands that come with an adjustable eye blinder, and buy a lens holder only (Varga, MEC etc) and pop it in where the blinder was.

Should come to £40ish

dCorbus

Thanks for all the advice - Am all sorted now!:D