Good Eye Doc/Glasses in CHCH

[JD Kid]

Hi ya's
just a wee question for ya's  Whos a good /great/best  eye doc in CHCH ?? one that kinda understands shooting  and what ya trying to do while shooting  or is it a case of  the best shooting eye doc is out of town ..

maybe just bigger targets  or a longer gun i don't realy know

thanks
JD

[Cosmik de Bris]

Do you need your eyes fixed or a decent pair of glasses? If you want a good Doctor Mark Elder is probably the best around these parts. Not cheap though.

[JD Kid]

Hi ya
just the glasses  maybe  saying eye doc was the wrong wording 
the last pair i got  need replaceing  and realy did not work that well for shooting   my eyes are not too bad but just getting a wee bit fuzzy   on the sights   ..
last set i got off peter dick in oamaru  i know a few  have said he's ment to be  one of the better ones  that was when i was smallbore shooting 
catch ya
JD

[Cosmik de Bris]

A good optometrist will make a pair with long focus on your non-dominant eye and short on the dominant one. Target and sights both perfectly in focus.

[Ray Exe]

Jonathan Foate of Visique Foate optometrists is a high-grade smallbore shooter. He certainly understands what's required for rifle shooting and has done lenses for me for rifle and pistol. Recommended.

[JD Kid]

Thanks for that ray
they  full glasses or  just the one lens kinda set up's    i also noticed on a smallbore news letter on the net  a fella dunlop in CHCH has writen  a write up on glasses

thanks
JD

[Ray Exe]

Foate will work with you to determine what's best for you. Don't think he can supply shooting frames, but you can get Champion, Knoblock, MEC, Varga, and probably others I've forgotten, easily enough. Target Shooting NZ stocks Knobloch.

I was told that Paul Dunlop had retired.

If you are of an age when bifocals or progressive lenses are useful for everyday use, you have my sympathy: they are a disaster for shooting!

There's a lot to be said for contact lenses, unless you're very astigmatic. Use just one - half the price!

[JD Kid]

Talked to Jonathan  yesterday and booked in  in a few weeks time ..
i only realy found  i had an eye prob from smallbore  shooting  one night the target  went to gray then whited out   could not work it out found out i had a stigma  in right eye  and looking though the back sight  on my 1413    the eye was trying to do things it could not do  ..
distance not a prob  just  getting eye to focus   up close     last glasses i got  ok for reading etc etc but hopeless to walk in made the ground 6 inchs higher  (great  for doing   paddock walks tho had heaps of grass  HAHAHA  )
have a pair of roamer 2  glasses  that i'm hopeing  the lenses can be bent to fit those frames    for shooting and every day use  fishing etc etc    ..
i know  target shooters  pick up on there eye sight   and get something done   but i wonder how many action shooters do any thing about  there eyes /glasses     i know a lot that have to use glasses for reading etc etc   ..
catch ya
JD

[Hugo]

Paul Dunlop is still operating in New Regent st, and he is a top man, take your "air pistol" with you and he'll be happy to see you.