I have seen the ads for shooting glasses that have adjustments in them at the top for shooting and had planned to get a pair. I recently had a couple eye appointments and the Doc is a friend. On the first apt I asked him what power I should get and he told me about some mathematical formula they use and he measured from my eyes to where the end of the firearm would be as I pretended to hold up a pistol. He said 1.5 but go with a 1.25. I had a follow up apt with him a few days later and this time I brought my tape measure and my CZ 10C. I stood up in shooting position and he measured with the firearm and he came up with 1.75.
Now the fun part. I am kind of messed up as I am right handed, left eye dominant and shoot right eyed. I just have to close my left eye mostly so my eyes don't fight among themselves. To make it even worse, the sights are more clear with my right eye than the left especially when I look over my glasses. The doc put all the various power of lenses over my right eye to get the sights in focus and it was amazing how clear the three dots became, but there is a trade off. He explained that there is never going to be a perfect lens because you are trying to focus on three separate distances - rear sight, front sight and the target. The more power he added, 1.75 for example, allowed for a great view of the front site but the target was really blurry. As he came down I could see the differences and how the trade offs in lenses would work.
In the final analysis, I have decided to NOT get glasses with any correction but try some glasses with tint, likely yellow, just to see how that works for me. I tried some friends non corrective yellow tinted glasses and they worked well outside.
So, two questions from all of this:
1. Do any of you have top portion prescriptions and how does that work for you? What power are they?
2. What do you use for tinted regular shooting glasses?
Thanks in advance. I am only 67 and I can see this becoming more interesting with time as things do as we age gracefully!