I wear glasses but hate the over-the-glasses goggles because: a) they feel uncomfortable on my face and b) they open up a larger gap in the seal for the over-the-ear hearing protectors I use. So to date I've just been using my normal everyday glasses as my eye protection while shooting.
However at the last Appleseed my daughter's ejected brass twice struck my glasses, badly scratching one of my lenses. Today I just visited my ophthalmologist and so have the most up to date prescription.
I'd like to get prescription glasses that I can devote just to shooting, perhaps with additional scratch resistant material or coating, however the ones I've looked at so far are not progressive, i.e. I have to pick a single corrective factor. (I'm nearsighted.)
That then creates the question: What distance do I need to have my glasses set to? Of course I know you want to focus on the recital in the scope, but the scope has one or more lenses inside so it isn't the true measured distance between your eye and the end of the scope. I asked my ophthalmologist and he had no idea. For now (in addition to a full prescription for EDC glasses) he gave me a prescription for shooting glasses set to my far corrective distance, but said I could call him back if he needed to adjust that in closer.
Have any of you run up against this problem and if so how did you address the situation? Likewise are any of you experts in the optics of scopes and their internal recital and know the relative distance they are typically set to? Is your eye focusing somewhat close-in (closer to the real measured distance of the scope) or is it set further out (closer but not all the way to the target)?
I realize the answer is likely "it depends" on the specifics of the scope itself, but if there is a broad generalization, or an equation where I can map for example power of the scope to perceived recital distance, that would be great.
Thanks.
However at the last Appleseed my daughter's ejected brass twice struck my glasses, badly scratching one of my lenses. Today I just visited my ophthalmologist and so have the most up to date prescription.
I'd like to get prescription glasses that I can devote just to shooting, perhaps with additional scratch resistant material or coating, however the ones I've looked at so far are not progressive, i.e. I have to pick a single corrective factor. (I'm nearsighted.)
That then creates the question: What distance do I need to have my glasses set to? Of course I know you want to focus on the recital in the scope, but the scope has one or more lenses inside so it isn't the true measured distance between your eye and the end of the scope. I asked my ophthalmologist and he had no idea. For now (in addition to a full prescription for EDC glasses) he gave me a prescription for shooting glasses set to my far corrective distance, but said I could call him back if he needed to adjust that in closer.
Have any of you run up against this problem and if so how did you address the situation? Likewise are any of you experts in the optics of scopes and their internal recital and know the relative distance they are typically set to? Is your eye focusing somewhat close-in (closer to the real measured distance of the scope) or is it set further out (closer but not all the way to the target)?
I realize the answer is likely "it depends" on the specifics of the scope itself, but if there is a broad generalization, or an equation where I can map for example power of the scope to perceived recital distance, that would be great.
Thanks.