re: Prescription Shooting Glasses

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Does anyone have experience with prescription shooting glasses? I recently got a prescription for near sightedness and to fix my astigmatism. Its a relatively weak prescription but boy does it make a difference. -.75, 1 (astigmatism) 80, add .75 and 1, .25, 63, add .75. I can see up close fine but when they correct for the astigmatism I can't see fine through the glasses up close so they add the .75 for correction. These lenses are EXPENSIVE so I am not concerned about frame cost all that much, basically if I am spending big money on the lenses anyway I want good frames.

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I looked into them, it IS a pain in the arse.

Without boasting, I will say I've shot pistols long enough that I'm a damn good shot (if I do say so myself ). I also am nearsighted and have mild astigmatism, most of my life I wore contacts. Went to glasses exclusively around 40.

Approaching 50, my eyes started changing, to where I couldn't see my front sight sharply with glasses, couldn't see the target sharply without them. Started having to cheat, shooting longer slides, or pushing my arms a bit further than natural, or peaking past the lenses.
Pissed me off- I had finally gotten to where I wanted to be, and suddenly (about the period of a year) I couldn't see the damn sight!

I also had trouble with reading and computer screens, finally caved in to get progressives. Better, but still not the same. As I type this, my glasses are off, the screen is sharp, a front sight would be too. If I shoot, my now-prescriptions make me lean my head back, to see the sight, and then lean forward to see the target.

I've seen people say "get an optometrist to set the lenses up at the right distance", but that still doesn't help with the difference between front sight and target. You will still need to move your head to change the line of sight, and apply the correct part of the lens.

I've conceded to shooting in a more natural posture, head a bit down so I get distance correction, and accept that I see the front sight as a blur. I put the blur over the target.

One issue about progressive lenses (lineless bifocals), that nobody seems to address= it takes at least a week of steady wear. more like a month, for your brain to adjust. Until then, the world looks weird, almost 3-D... driving was terrifying during the adjustment period. Researching this, I learned that you absolutely do not want to switch back and forth between different prescriptions (go back to the old one), or you will not adjust.