Best Prescription Shooting Glasses?

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Need some help from those of you who shoot a lot and also need a prescription. I don't need bifocals but I do need corrected vision.

What do you guys recommend? I'm really hoping for lenses that match my prescription. Don't really want those kind that have small glasses inside of a set of googles.

A competitive shooter recommended these to me, but I don't have much info about them outside of what he told me.

http://www.huntershdgold.com/

Since I'll be shooting a rifle too, I'm hoping to avoid having a large frame that impedes my view of the rifle sights.

Thanks!
 
I went to an eye doc's office and got a set. Mine is a correction plus one side is sight focused sharpe while the other is distance.
 
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Did you ever decide on a pair? I'm going to pick up something soon. @BurnedOutGeek - do you have the ones with the RX insert? Or is the whole lens prescription?

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sign up for their newsletter and they do half off sales from time to time. I got a pair a couple months back with chromatic lenses for like $360
But that sale likely doesn't apply to the prescription inserts. Would have cost over $700 total for one set when i got the quote for the bifocals inserts. Only single vision can be ordered on line. But that is mostly because it is nearly impossible to find a local shop that will do the measurements. Not willing to take the risk of any error if you aren't buying.

If was doing competitive shooting I might still try them out. But not yet.


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I'm down HP way. Did you eventually find someone in the area to do the measuring?
 
Morgan Optical (800-594-0175) can, and will do any type shooting glasses you desire. Wayne did a pair of lenses for my Rangers for like 150.00. I wound up going the contact route in the end.....
 
I also used Morgan Optical. I got rx lenses in Edge frames. Very happy.
 
Talk to David Knoche at Eye Images on Lawndale in GSO. He grinds his own lenses and should be able to make anything you need. I know he made a set of reverse bifocals for a friend who had to look up while working on machines. And if he can't help you he probably knows someone who can.
 
Excellent...thanks for the advice fellows!!!!!
 
Depends on what you want to do/shoot. All the skeeters that spend big bucks on glasses go with Decot hy-wyd. For skeet and driving I got a pair of prescription distance only sun glasses from Zenni for around $100. I also got a pair of distance only lenses in "designer" frames from Zeni for $100 to shoot long range with scopes. Bi/tri/prog lenses mess me up looking thru scopes. There is also something called a Microsight ($50) that screws into rear aperture of some match iron sights (AR National Match for one) that works wonders for folks with less than perfect vision.
 
I know OP shoots a lot of the same matches that I do, so I'm assuming he was asking about for pistol and rifle steel rimfire matches mostly. If he wasn't - then I'm highjacking this thread to ask that. [emoji3]

The more I look at glasses, the more I'm thinking about getting contacts. There are just a ton more options if you don't need correction. And way cheaper too.
 
I have found the Decot Hy-wyd, Hy-Lo, though previously maligned, to be the most versatile shooting glasses I have ever owned. They are not wrap around, so they are not as prone to fogging and the lens come in a variety of colors and options, even polarized. All colors are available in Rx and they even offer bifocals, trifocals, or progressive lens. You can also select straight or wrap around temple pieces. However, the best thing about them is the adjustable bridge that let's you use them for pistol or shotguns in the low position (looking through the center of the lens) and then raise them for use with a rifle scope (still looking through the center of the lens). They are the only pair of glasses that I need for all of my shooting.

Decot is the Burger King of shooting glasses - "Have it your way". You pay for it, true, but you get it exactly the way you want it.

That said, they aren't what I would call "stylish" and I don't wear them around town.
 
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Mine are just rx lenses. I wear them when on turning wood too since they offer excellent coverage and are safety rated. The curvature took a couple days to get used to but I don't notice it now.
 
Thanks for the heads up. I'm really on the fence about getting a pair with the RX insert - not sure if it will feel weird with the doubled up glasses.
I just bought a cheap set of DAA glasses and had my Eye doctor do the insert. So far, I really like them. Only had them for about a mo
 
Mine are just rx lenses. I wear them when on turning wood too since they offer excellent coverage and are safety rated. The curvature took a couple days to get used to but I don't notice it now.

Same here. I got the transition lens too which of course drove the price up even further but I wear them riding as well so it's nice not to have to carry multiple sets of glasses.
 
I just ordered a set of stick on bi-focals from Amazon for $15. My shooting glasses are single vision and the front sight is blurry. Going to put one on the top of my dominant eye and see what happens.
 
Oops, forgot all about this thread. Ended up with a pair of Wiley's from the same place I got my regular eye glasses. When you buy the second pair you get 50% off. No inserts, as I wasn't too keen on that idea. Instead I got prescription lenses and also sprung for the polarized transition ones.

The glasses themselves make me look like more of an idiot that usual. Makes me look a lot like this dude.

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I second Decot Hy-wyd as the was to go for shooting glasses.

Yup. I asked my son for years if he wouldn't like to have a pair of Hy-Wyds and then add lenses as needed. He always balked and said they were to old looking. Finally bought him a pair the past Christmas (as his consent was not required for a Christmas present and because my wife said, "I took care of everyone, the kids are yours"). And before you say, I took the easy way out, I would like to point out that they were the perfect gift - "something that they would not buy for themselves".

I have since actually heard him recommend them over Oakleys!!!

Turns out, the "old man" does know some things.

But, he won't wear them anywhere other than the range either.
 
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I ended up going with a pair of wiley-x's as well - just because my eye doc carried them, and I got a discount from insurance.

I just did see this other company ,DVX Eyewear, that I wish I saw before. Apparently this is the daughter company of Wiley-x, but much cheaper. They carry them at Walmart or you can order online. Looks like you can get prescription glasses for under $200.
 
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