Saw the Eye Specialist

[Wm.Traynor]

Finally, my medical insurance is now more than a year old and I can get my cataracts removed and replaced with lenses. Thinking of having long range for one eye. The other eye will have a lens for foresight distance.

[Die Judicii]

Finally, my medical insurance is now more than a year old and I can get my cataracts removed and replaced with lenses. Thinking of having long range for one eye. The other eye will have a lens for foresight distance.

I have no idea how you will get along with THAT particular setup,,,,,,,,, IF your eye specialist would even consider it.
You would be permanently unbalanced in your vision.

Might be a good idea (if you have reading glasses and long distance driving glasses,, to get your optomotrist to put just one lens of each in a frame and try that out before you go doing something crazy with your eyes themselves.

[bigrich]

Finally, my medical insurance is now more than a year old and I can get my cataracts removed and replaced with lenses. Thinking of having long range for one eye. The other eye will have a lens for foresight distance.

I have no idea how you will get along with THAT particular setup,,,,,,,,, IF your eye specialist would even consider it.
You would be permanently unbalanced in your vision.

Might be a good idea (if you have reading glasses and long distance driving glasses,, to get your optomotrist to put just one lens of each in a frame and try that out before you go doing something crazy with your eyes themselves.

i wear bifocal glasses and get along fine with scope use , with the scope adjusted to suit my glasses . i think if i was going to compete in a comp with opens a lot i'd get a set of specific glasses made . you can change glasses in a instant , lenses not so much . when i'm out in the paddock i can spot game at distance , and use my scoped rifle in a instant without missing a beat . i knew a fella years ago who thought glasses got in his way when using a scoped rifle , said i was silly for wearing glasses . when out hunting i'd be spotting pigs , he'd be saying "where, where ?" . all our eyes are different and we just have to work out what's appropriate for our individual circumstance

[No1_49er]

Finally, my medical insurance is now more than a year old and I can get my cataracts removed and replaced with lenses. Thinking of having long range for one eye. The other eye will have a lens for foresight distance.

I have no idea how you will get along with THAT particular setup,,,,,,,,, IF your eye specialist would even consider it.
You would be permanently unbalanced in your vision.

Might be a good idea (if you have reading glasses and long distance driving glasses,, to get your optomotrist to put just one lens of each in a frame and try that out before you go doing something crazy with your eyes themselves.

DJ, have YOU had cataracts removed, and replaced with artificial lenses?

My optician, who is a pistol shooter, recommended different lenses for each eye.
My master eye - RHS. RH shooter. RH lens optimised for pistol shooting.
The ophthalmologist who performed my surgery concurred.

I get along with my (restored) vision just fine.

[Wapiti]

Finally, my medical insurance is now more than a year old and I can get my cataracts removed and replaced with lenses. Thinking of having long range for one eye. The other eye will have a lens for foresight distance.

I have no idea how you will get along with THAT particular setup,,,,,,,,, IF your eye specialist would even consider it.
You would be permanently unbalanced in your vision.

Might be a good idea (if you have reading glasses and long distance driving glasses,, to get your optomotrist to put just one lens of each in a frame and try that out before you go doing something crazy with your eyes themselves.

Gee, I absolutely agree with DJ on that.
Why do something permanent to your vision - a source of necessity and life pleasure for ALL activities, and balance it to using gun sights?

Why not have the best vision medically grafted into your precious eyes for all-round everyday use, to enjoy all aspects of life all the time, then just use a corrective pair of glasses when you go to the shooting range?

Lop-sided vision is a real BASTARD...
I have to wear glasses now for both distance and for close up tech work, so have this inbuilt into my glasses lenses. You can't do that with lens implants, you are stuck with it unless going under the knife again after exhausting your insurance.
This is the same thing really, as you are proposing -
So I tried contact lenses that have one eye for distance, one for close, using your master eye and playing around with both, to optimise shooting in the field, and reading with one eye, distance with the other.
What a brain-twisting monstrosity of a plan, in my experience.
I tried this for a few weeks, and it absolutely took so much pleasure out of using my eyes at all distances I dropped the idea.
I can't imagine how distraught I would have been if this was medically inserted permanantly...

I also can't understand how an ophthalmologist specialist would actually agree to doing that ... you must be one stubborn bugger, respectfully. Either that or the eye doc doesn't care.
I say, make both eyes balanced again and save your brain, and put on corrective glasses for the short time you are shooting.

[Peter988]

Interesting discussion. I recently had both eyes done with long vision. Both my optometrist and ophthalmologist suggested one long and one short. Reckon the brain works it out pretty quick. I have spoken with a few people who went that way and they are happy with the outcome. I regret not doing it as I now still need glasses for close up. But at least the cheap 2x magnifying glasses do the job. Not having to spend money on prescription glasses.