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The Shermans are great folks. Pat repaired a minor issue for me at a shoot once which required a part unique to the Ithaca imported MX8s. Granny has made my molded earplugs since '03, and I've bought a set of non-prescription Pillas from her.
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If you cannot meet with the provider, it is important that you not only furnish them with the prescription, but also the distance between pupils.
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While I'm awfully fond of Granny and Mike Sherman (saw them this past weekend) and own a set of Pillas purchased from them, another option is to call Wayne Morgan at Morgan Optical in NY. Morgan Optical is the largest dealer in the US for RE Ranger shooting glasses. Wayne is a veritable encyclopedia of all things shooting glasses.
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I had a bad experience with Randolph Rangers. They were non-prescription but had the worst distortion in the lenses I have ever encountered. I gave them away.
Just my experience, other's mileage may vary.
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I had a bad experience with Randolph Rangers. They were non-prescription but had the worst distortion in the lenses I have ever encountered. I gave them away.
Just my experience, other's mileage may vary. You are the only guy that I've ever heard say that out of dozens and dozens of happy customers. You should have sent them back. They can immediately measure distortion and determine if you got some perscription lenses by mistake. I have both prescription and neutral lenses that have been superb - not to mention saved my eyes when an action blew up.
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Gil, When I had my shooting glasses made, the frame fitter (not the Dr), was a shooter. He not only understood that the optical centers had to be spaced per your eye spacing, but also that you don't look straight ahead through glasses when mounted shooting. He had me hold my head and hands as if shooting, then literally used a felt tip pen to mark the lenses for pupil centers where I was viewing through them. For a right hander, it is up and left and opposite for a left handed shooter. This reduces the distortion when in the shooting position.
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I had a bad experience with Randolph Rangers. They were non-prescription but had the worst distortion in the lenses I have ever encountered. I gave them away.
Just my experience, other's mileage may vary. You are the only guy that I've ever heard say that out of dozens and dozens of happy customers. You should have sent them back. They can immediately measure distortion and determine if you got some perscription lenses by mistake. I have both prescription and neutral lenses that have been superb - not to mention saved my eyes when an action blew up. It was an unusual situation. I had a set of HiDefSpecs, which later became Pilla. I was shooting registered NSCA tournaments pretty heavily and left my set somewhere, carelessly, and lost them. When I bemoaned my carelessness to a shooting buddy he told me that someone had left a zippered set of glasses in his cart at a shoot, and that he couldn't determine who, and I could have them. I accepted, tried them at a casual round of clays with him and some other buds, and found the distortion so bad that I abandoned them on about station 5 and gave them back to him. I would have felt dishonest had I sent glasses back to the company, for replacement, that I hadn't bought. Those were the glasses I mentioned earlier. I suppose , in retrospect, they could have been prescription (with a very "mild" correction). I had just always assumed they weren't, as they did not seem to be at the time. However, from here on out I will adjust my evaluation of them to accommodate that possibility.
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[quote=Stanton Hillis]I had a bad experience with Randolph Rangers. They were non-prescription but had the worst distortion in the lenses I have ever encountered. I gave them away.
Just my experience, other's mileage may vary. You are the only guy that I've ever heard say that out of dozens and dozens of happy customers. You should have sent them back. They can immediately measure distortion and determine if you got some perscription lenses by mistake. I have both prescription and neutral lenses that have been superb - not to mention saved my eyes when an action blew up. Almost certainly they were prescription lenses, so of course they gave you distortion, just like my wife's glasses do if I put them on by accident.
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[quote=Stanton Hillis]I had a bad experience with Randolph Rangers. They were non-prescription but had the worst distortion in the lenses I have ever encountered. I gave them away.
Just my experience, other's mileage may vary. You are the only guy that I've ever heard say that out of dozens and dozens of happy customers. You should have sent them back. They can immediately measure distortion and determine if you got some perscription lenses by mistake. I have both prescription and neutral lenses that have been superb - not to mention saved my eyes when an action blew up. Almost certainly they were prescription lenses, so of course they gave you distortion, just like my wife's glasses do if I put them on by accident.
_________ BrentD, (Professor - just for Stan) =>/
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I heard you the first time, Brent. I would have thought if they were prescription glasses there would have been some indication of that on, or in, the case, or on the glasses themselves. But, having never needed or owned prescription glasses of any kind, I was just making an assumption.
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