Prior to my cataract surgery I never gave much of a thought to sunglasses. I just wore GI pilot sunglasses I'd pick up every summer during the Nationals at the Camp Perry PX. They were halfway decent and reasonably priced. They did the job.
After surgery my wife handed me a pair of brown lensed sunglasses to try out and while they interfered with the colors a bit they were great for contrast.
I also had an old pair of yellow Simmons shooting glasses and I tried those out for contrast on the target on cloudy days they worked pretty good at making the black blacker and the white whiter but were pretty useless on very bright days.
Last Sunday I brought both the browns and the ambers with me to the match and for the first string of fire the target was in the shade. The yellow glasses worked well. Toward the end of the string the sun moved and lit the entire target so it was too bright so I swapped them out for the brown shades which worked perfectly. Great contrast!
It was the first match I've shot with iron sights for a number of years. My first shot went straight into the X-ring!
Anyway I found a place on Amazon that makes basic flight frames with bayonette temples that has them in different shades. The browns are perfect for daylight driving and the light yellow shade is perfect for foggy, misty or night driving.
What a compliment to my cataract surgery!
(Oh yeah. I shot an Expert score.)
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