How to Shoot With Bifocal Glasses

Shooting is an activity that requires you to focus both on long distance objects and short distance objects. Bifocal lenses aid you to see at these distances but they can sometimes be tricky to use while shooting a gun. Nevertheless, it is much easier to shoot with bifocal lenses than without them when you have trouble focusing your vision both for close and far objects.

Things You'll Need

• Bifocal lenses
• Gun
• PAL bifocals (optional)

Instructions

1. Place the gun up close to your face and hold your head so that you can see the sights of the gun clearly through the bottom part of your bifocal lenses. The bottom part of the bifocal lenses is the part of the lenses designed to improve your focus on the items near at hand.

2. Look up at your target through the top part of the bifocal lenses. The top part of the lenses is the part designed to help you see things that are far away.

3. Purchase Progressive Additive Lenses (PAL) instead of standard bifocal lenses if you can. PAL lenses change from near sighted lenses to far sighted lenses gradually instead of on a line through the lens. This feature makes it so there isn’t a stark difference between focusing on your sights and on your target, and it allows you to hold your gun naturally instead of having to cock it up to your head so that you can put it where your lenses can focus on the sights.

References

• Gun Tests: Aging Eyes
• All About Eyeglasses: Bifocals