Recommended Opthalmalogists for shooting sports in Greater Boston?

[TargetTerror]

Title pretty much says it all. I live outside of Boston and am looking for an Opthalmalogist with an understanding/experience of shooting sports. I shoot precision rifle and pistol, and want someone who can help me get the right prescription for my shooting glasses.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Scrivener]

You might want to define "outside of Boston" with something approaching specificity. That's way too large an area as written.

 

[wilfx]

When you find one please let me know. IMy prescription is for close up and faraway,I have no line bifocals now. can't think of the proper name. have a hard time sighting in.

 

[TargetTerror]

You might want to define "outside of Boston" with something approaching specificity. That's way too large an area as written.

Fair enough. I live in Lexington. The closer the better, obviously.

That said, I would be happy to travel farther for a visit to a competent opthamalogist for shooting glasses.

 

[bpm990d]

I thought Ophthalmologist were the ones that did eye surgery? There is a guy in Vermont (Burlington) that is a very good long range shooter and is also a Ophthalmologist. Don't think he does glasses though.

B

 

[Scrivener]

Fair enough. I live in Lexington. The closer the better, obviously.

That said, I would be happy to travel farther for a visit to a competent opthamalogist for shooting glasses.

There's an OPTOMETRIST in Foxboro who might suffice. Bit of a drive, though.

 

[TargetTerror]

I always get Opthamalogists and Optometrists confused. I'm looking for someone who can diagnose my eyesight and the corrective lenses I need for normal vision and shooting glasses.

I guess this would be an Optometrist??? I'm a bit confused because i went to a local independent shop asking them to grind me a lens for my pistol glasses and they wouldn't change my prescription because it was a prescription ordered by a doctor (much like I can't change my drug prescriptions). I thought that the guy(s) in the shop were OPTOMETRISTS, and they were sending me back to an Opthamalogist.

Silly specialists trying to confuse me

 

[Len-2A Training]

Ophthalmologists are very highly trained eye doctors and qualified to do eye surgery.

Optometrists have less training and can write scripts for eyeglasses and diagnose when someone has a more serious condition and needs to see an ophthalmologist.

Opticians dispense glasses, making them to the Rx written by an optometrist or ophthalmologist.

By my own choosing over the years I have seen both ophthalmologists and optometrists. For my purposes, an optometrist is adequate to do the job.

I did have a favorite optometrist who was a shooter in Stoughton, but he's changed careers. The optometrist we now see (who also fills the scripts) is at least not adverse to dealing with the shooter's issues. I brought a blue gun (plastic) for sighting purposes for him to take measurements for shooting glasses. He told me he wouldn't have had a problem if I brought the real gun in, but I told him that I WOULD HAVE HAD A PROBLEM as it involved aiming at a door where people walk back and forth by it as we are taking measurements.

Dr. Daniel W. Thurm
340 Wood road
Braintree, MA 02184
(781) 794-2200

Dr. Daniel W. Thurm
89A Sharon Street
Stoughton, MA 02072
(781) 344-3335

 

[KMaurer]

My experience is that most of the ophthalmologists at Lahey Clinic are good at working with shooters. I know that at least a couple of them are regular shooters. While my current ophthalmologist doesn't shoot, I just told her what I wanted for shooting, and she gave me the right prescription. One of the members at my club is an optometrist who used to work at Lahey, but now has his own practice in Hudson, NH. I don't have his contact information in front of me, but can easily get it.

Ken

 

[Chuck]

Questions for you guys. Are you getting shooting glasses ground to prescriptions? Or are you getting prescription inserts that sit behind the wrap-around shooting glasses? I picked up a pair of the later years ago when flying a plane with a bubble canopy. The insert is tiny, perhaps the size of a nickel. Never liked them but it was the only choice at the time to keep from frying my retinas.

Our are your shooting lenses different from regular?

thanks,
Chuck

 

[Len-2A Training]

Chuck,

I bought ESS ICE glasses. There is an insert that fits behind the ESS ICE lenses. The insert is ground to your Rx and it is ~as big as normal glasses lenses these days.

The Rx is specific for shooting, as I wear gradient (no line) bifocals for everything else.

 

[daveInME]

you might want to try a Dr Al Sherbourne in Lexington.
I went to him for years before escaping to Maine

he's a retired MA ANG medical officer, and helped me with a set of shooting glasses for bullseye.

great guy.

 

[MaverickNH]

http://www.1optometrist.com/about.html

Dr. Walter Potaznick, OD in Mansfield, MA

He actually DOES have a target on the wall and will adjust your prescription with your pistol held as when shooting. Bring it unloaded and discretely cased and offer to have him check it before aiming in (as would any good shooter).

Getting bifocals from him made a big difference for me - I can even hit the narrow side of a barn now!

 

[TargetTerror]

you might want to try a Dr Al Sherbourne in Lexington.
I went to him for years before escaping to Maine

he's a retired MA ANG medical officer, and helped me with a set of shooting glasses for bullseye.

great guy.

Thanks Dave, you don't have any contact info for him or know what practice he is in by chance?

 

[Len-2A Training]

All doctors are "registered" with the state and there is a state database where you can look them up. Useful at finding his office location and maybe even a phone number.

 

[daveInME]

Thanks Dave, you don't have any contact info for him or know what practice he is in by chance?

Albert L. Sherburne, O.D.
35 Bedford Street, Suite 11
Lexington, MA 02420
Phone: 781-863-8833
Fax: 781-652-8762

http://www.eyefinity.com/drsherburne/home.htm

 

[Arioch]

Burlington Eye Associates. Either of the doctors Gendleman.