Old eyes and barrel length

[gunzo]

Forgot about the contact lense thing. I have a 62 year old shooting buddy that needs vision correction for both close up & distance, same as me. He said it was simple, a close up lense in his dominate eye & a contact for distance in the other. He can see both the sights & the target clearly. Simple for him, as I cannot for the life of me, shoot well with both eyes open.

I have proggresive bifocals and they help. I can bob & roll my head around & find a sweet spot in the lense, but for me it's awkward & slow.

I try not be long winded about this subject but I've been searching for answers for a while. Ten years ago I was a decent plinker & competetor. Now a highly accurate handgun is wasted on me. Maybe thats why I've playing with a long range rifle a lot lately. That big ole Nightforce scope is just what this old fart needs.

[kmcmichael]

I am 51 and normally wear progressive lenses. I can shoot with them but it is slower. I have to qualify under time constraints every three months and the progressives make it difficult. I had a special lense made. It allows me to only focus on the front sight. The target and rear sights are blurry(as they should be). I have a test kit that allows me to determine the correction on others. Mine are made by Decot.

[nonpcnrarn]

For your specific problem where your distance vision is good get a pair of glasses with plain glass in your non shooting eye and get a Rx for the aiming eye that allows you to see the front sight clearly. This is called monovision and your brain will adapt to see distance with one eye and up close with the other. I had Lasik done like this and it allows me to use one eye for distance and one for up close. Unfortunately I had the dominant eye corrected so now it sees distant objects correctly and I use my left eye for reading. With a pistol I still shoot right handed but close my right eye and shoot with my left to see the front sight clearly. With rifles I have found that iron sights work best with a BJones sight insert that uses a tiny lens in the aperture of a peep sight. The lens can only be seen from the back and brings the front sight into focus. They come in different strengths depending on your eye Rx. Since your problem is with handguns I would just go the glasses route and have only the shooting eye lense corrected to see the front sight clearly.