Picking a new optometrist....help

[Farmerjohn]

Hey Fellers, my Grandpa always told us that outside of Divine Leadership and a good wife you needed a good DR, Dentist, lawyer, and barber.... all younger than you so they can outlive you and you won't find a new one. He said changing any of them was always expensive and dangerous. Now I find myself needing to add optometrist to the list, my eye man got himself killed on a motorcycle last year at the young age of 58 and I am needing to change my glasses, I use Decots and can order them (just the lenses) but I need the new prescription....... how do you guys find a new shooting optometrist? I can't just go walking into the office with one of my hand guns and a couple of scopes in a sack so he can determine distance from my eye to the sights or glass and hope he knows what he's doing. I've been trying for a couple of months here in south central Arkansas with no luck. Somebody needs to make a list of eye men who know what shooters need..... any ideas, thanks John

[ollogger]

I very well know what you're saying
My eye Doc. says if she could make glasses that would let the shooter see the back & front sights
& the target clearly she would become very wealthy, thats all i know about that




ollogger

[GunnyMack]

ID ask around at local shooting ranges, might find an eye doc as a member or they might point you to a firearm friendly optometrist.

[Grizz]

or just post that question in the address bar . . . OR IF you are real curious ask an ai chatbot. maybe. seems like something from the Xfiles. not that X . . .

good hunting, hope you find the right one.

[Pisgah]

For some odd reason, I count three optometrists among my friends. (And, three chiropractors. Go figure...) Every one of them will happily help a shooter get the right glasses. Based on that, I'd say... just ask around close to home. You'll find one surprisingly quickly...

[Farmerjohn]

ID ask around at local shooting ranges, might find an eye doc as a member or they might point you to a firearm friendly optometrist.

Thank you for the idea, but, the lower half of Arkansas is pretty much all agricultural all of got our own ranges, fokes in town all know sombody like me who has their own range, closest real range is 70 mi away. Before my age and some health problems caught up to me I shot a lot of IBS 600& 1000yd, shot on some nice ranges all over the country. Shot the super shoot in Canton OH for 10 years, now it's just me, my family and friends here on the farm........John

[Paladin]

My best Optometrist was a retired Air Force COL. He understood my request for a bifocal in the upper left of my right lens for rifle shooting (before I went to optics) and was very knowledgeable.