PatK100 Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 20 or 30 years ago I used to do a lot of clay shooting and was quite good at it regularly scoring 49/50 and the occasional 50/50 at general sporting clays. Now I have retired and from a nagging son I have rekindled this old hobby. The problem is I now wear spectacles of the varifocal type, for shooting purposes I have purchased a set of safety glasses with prescription inserts for the distance part of my prescription. I am finding now that I can hit targets coming towards me or going away from me quite easily as I can rabbits that are quite close and low down, the problem I have is with quick, high crossing targets in that I cannot see them until it is too late to hit them, so any advice you can give or equipment you can recommend would be gratefully received. Just a little more information for you is that I am right handed with a right master eye, if I try keeping both eyes open when shooting I can see nothing as it is all a blur but if I close my left eye at least I can hit the targets going and coming. Really beginning to look forward to the cracking this problem now. BTW Happy New Year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P~MX Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 my advice - join the club and learn to live with gettin older :blink: (that's what I was told), you are now eligible like many of us here my optician said when you turn 40 you're more or less **** just suck it up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatK100 Posted January 12, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 my advice - join the club and learn to live with gettin older :blink: (that's what I was told), you are now eligible like many of us here my optician said when you turn 40 you're more or less **** just suck it up Thanks for those few kind words Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattr Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 I had a similar problem last year, maybe not as pronounced - but I did struggle to pick up some crossing targets (I'm 40 something, short sighted and wear single focus glasses all the time). I revised my prescription before Christmas - and it has made a lot of difference - I was half a point down on my right eye (I'm right handed, left eye dominant) I wonder if the new prescription you have is crisp enough, it may be worth geting a free /cheap eye test again to really double check that prescription? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAL S Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 keep both eyes open till you see the clay then close one it works for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.C. Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 (edited) Most prescription glasses and inserts will show a distortion of the image if you try and look through them with your line of sight more than a few degrees away from the centre of the lens. This will be reduced if you have shooting glasses that position your eye in the centre of the lens when you mount the gun(rather than ending up looking through the top 25% of the lens with normal glasses)ie. shooting glasses with a prescription lens rather than an insert. It may also help if you make an effort to point your nose at the target rather than trying to see it out of the corner of your eye.As a varifocal spectacle wearer I found both of these things made a big difference. The comment that if you look at the target all you see is a blur suggests a visit to your optician might be helpful! Edited January 13, 2012 by T.C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlaserF3 Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 (edited) I tried inserts in safety glasses...total waste of money, very little peripheral vision. You will be far better off with shooting glasses. Specsavers will sort you out, buy a largish frame and they have tinted lenses, if you want to you have the choice of different types of lens, you can purchase the very best, or some that are cheaper. Otherwise just Google shooting glasses. Edited January 12, 2012 by BlaserF3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon R Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 I got two pairs of distance glasses from Specsavers - one tinted lenses, for £85 last year. They have a tilting frame so that I look through the middle of the lens rather than the top. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellow Bear Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 I got two pairs of distance glasses from Specsavers - one tinted lenses, for £85 last year. They have a tilting frame so that I look through the middle of the lens rather than the top. I went the same way except I plumped for brown photchromic - even in overcast the slight residual "brown" picks up blaze clays well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloke Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 I use the doyle shooting glasses with the px inserts and have no problems. You say you don't see the clay till too late. When I started back into shooting I was looking down the barrel waiting for the clay to come into view, rather than doing what I should have been doing, which was mopunting the gun and looking for the clay, not the bead. Do you think that may be happening. Also, it is worth checking if the Px is right. I was lucky with my local specsavers, the optician I had was trained in sport glasses prescriptions, so he knew to move the centre of the ground lens higher to compensate for the head down posture of shooters. May be worth a check. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iggy Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 I too went down the Specsavers route and am very pleased with the results. Got myself two pairs of distance prescription, large framed, tinted specs - one grey/brown for sunny conditions and the other made up in an orange tint which is great on overcast days for about £90. Being large framed most of my field of view seems to be in focus as opposed to just the central section as would be the case with the insert type specs. Hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southrop Posted January 13, 2012 Report Share Posted January 13, 2012 Do Specsavers do polycarbonate impact resistant lenses or just standard cr90 sunglasses lenses? Important to know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenG Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 Mine were "polycarbonate impact resistant lenses" in a snooker glasses frame. Work well, but a bit dark on cloudy days. Probably not as good as proper shooting glasses, but they do the job well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloke Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 I too went down the Specsavers route and am very pleased with the results. Got myself two pairs of distance prescription, large framed, tinted specs - one grey/brown for sunny conditions and the other made up in an orange tint which is great on overcast days for about £90. Being large framed most of my field of view seems to be in focus as opposed to just the central section as would be the case with the insert type specs. Hope this helps. Depends on the specs, but I know what you mean. That is why I chose the Doyle ones, the insert is large enough that you would have to be almost squinting over your own shoulder to be outside the Px lens area Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chazzmeister Posted January 16, 2012 Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 I'm '40 something' myself and wear glasses daily to avoid furniture, cats and my own feet It may seem extreme but I wear contact lenses when shooting - I use disposable ones that cost approx £10 for 30 so they're not expensive and I buy them on an 'as and when' basis. Granted you'll need a Px for them in order to be sure that all is as it should be but I find the difference when shooting is amazing - so much of the field of vision is blurred when wearing glasses and peripheral vision falls away dramatically. Lenses give an interrupted view and crossing clays are picked up much more quickly rather than sneaking up from nowhere - I appreciate that's not your problem area but it is for me I guess we all have to deal with the ravages of time in the best way that we can and this may be of no help to you at all - glad you've returned to the sport and, as long as it's still fun, just keep going Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustem Dave Posted January 16, 2012 Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 Mine were "polycarbonate impact resistant lenses" in a snooker glasses frame. Work well, but a bit dark on cloudy days. Probably not as good as proper shooting glasses, but they do the job well. Think thats why you miss so many clays :lol: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skabo1 Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 keep both eyes open till you see the clay then close one it works for me You mean you're supposed to keep your eyes open :blink: so that's where I've been going wrong no wonder I could hit **** all!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmer Fudd. Posted January 21, 2012 Report Share Posted January 21, 2012 Oh the joys of gettin old(er). I went down the route of getting single vision photochromic lenses in aviator style frames from specsavers for clay shooting. At least I can see the clays from all angles with no restricted peripheral vision due to the large frames, which for me has helped with my scores no end. Cost me around £120 if I remember. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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