Eye surgery is more expensive. And you don't even want to know the cost of needing seeing eye dogs for the rest of your life.
Which is why I wear the yellowish shooting glasses over my regular glasses.
If you enjoy the forum please consider supporting it by signing up for a NES Membership The benefits pay for the membership many times over.
Be sure to enter the NES/MFS February Giveaway ***Canik TP9SF Elite***
Eye surgery is more expensive. And you don't even want to know the cost of needing seeing eye dogs for the rest of your life.
I saw my Ophthalmologist yesterday afternoon and got a copy of my script for the purpose of getting polycarbonate glasses for shooting, with the distance part on the bottom of the lens and the reading/closeup on the top. He warned me this will be very expensive with my prescription. I'm going to be looking into this next week.
My boss had the Lasix surgery and went from nearsighted to farsighted, he still wears glasses (to read only). To me that's not worth the cost....
If you get a chance, read one of the Anti-Lasik sites... but take any info they present with a huge grain of salt, as the vast majority of those procedures go fine and there are few odd consequences. The take away I got is that if you've got a weak prescription and good eye sight other than the near/far-sighted issue, the potential side-effects may not be worth it (mostly the low-light issues with halos and prisms). However, if you're wearing -10.5 diopter glasses, the option to have your full field of view in perfect focus is really hard to pass up, regardless if headlight at night have an extra ring around them.
Navy Moose - the eyeglass lens configuration you described is not only going to be expensive, but also proabably useless. With your near correction on top, the only thing you'll be able to see is your front sight. The target at 20feet or more will be out of focus. Look into a pair of multifocal eyeglasses