If you have discovered for yourself the joys of clay pigeon shooting, you will no doubt be keen to see just how good you can get at it, but that will mean more than just lots of practice.
Like most sports, investing in good equipment is important to maximise your talent and develop your game. A cricketer needs the right bat, a footballer good boots, while in a visual sport like clay pigeon shooting, the right eyewear will be critical even if you have 20/20 vision. This is where getting prescription glasses for shooting can make a big difference.
Of course, you always have to wear protective eyewear even if your eyesight is perfect, and as UK Outdoors notes, when you are a beginner, you can get away with a standard pair of safety glasses. However, it adds, to develop your performance, you need to invest in tinted glasses to see the colour of the clays more clearly in different light conditions.
Having a prescription pair will mean that you can still get the benefit given by standard glasses of correcting flaws in your eyesight, as well as having the tint to improve colour visibility.
However, there are different possible tints you can use and, as an article in Shotgun Life pointed out, different colours can be useful in various situations. For instance, amber helps block out blue light and copper can reduce glare on a bright sunny day, while yellow is best for poor lighting conditions.
This may leave you wondering what colour of glasses to get. Sometimes the answer might be obvious; for instance, if you only get to shoot in the evenings, yellow will be more suitable than copper.
However, our range of products does offer some flexible options, such as our photochromic lenses, which can change colour according to the prevailing light conditions to give you the optimal tint in different weathers, seasons and times of day.
You wouldn’t want to try to improve your clay shooting without a good gun. In the same way, getting the right prescription glasses to maximise performance is something you should never neglect to do.
