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Glasses when using scopes

G-man said:
Just wondering if anyone had mastered any useful techniques when using glasses with scopes? I often have issues aligning everything particularly when prone and shooting upward. The lens of my glasses sometimes seems impossible to hold on the sweet spot central to scope... Advice would be appreciated. I did wonder about making a 3d printed lens mount for back of scope but not sure it will work 🤦
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i have varifocals and they are a right pain, i have got a pair of pure distance glasses but i keep forgetting to take them with me.Homer face palm
 
i have varifocals which are mostly ok apart from certain positions like prone.I've an eye test coming up so might get a spare set so would distance or reading glasses be better for scope use?
 
This thread makes me feel normal Ben wearing glasses since I was three , it’s an issue I have when hft shooting as you can’t alter the parallax. The most useful thing I’ve found is moving my head from left to right, till it goes blurry either side and then the sweet really clear spot becomes obvious to me. I’m using varifocals but make sure I’ve got them well pushed onto my face before every shot, very tempted to get some made up for just shooting but with a plain lens.
 
i normally shoot glasses off but just had feedback from a friend who changed his frame style to a more rounder type (harry potter) and finds these very good as the frame does not block the image as some frames do , they are varifocals but because the lense is rounder it removes a lot of issues using varifocals through a scope
 
Wing Commander said:
I wear glasses when looking through a scope.
There is no real problem. . The eye relief distance takes care of any issues with alignment, etc.
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agreed i have never had an issue, astigmatism makes using a red dot fun though ! if you have astigmatism and wonder why the red dot isnt a dot well it wont be for you
 
protheroe said:
i have varifocals which are mostly ok apart from certain positions like prone.I've an eye test coming up so might get a spare set so would distance or reading glasses be better for scope use?
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I wear varifocals too and have encountered a few problems. When shooting (off hand) a comfortable posture leaves me looking through the corner of the lens and the distortion can be a pain. However I had a cheap pair of single focus specs made to suit viewing a pic screen across a desk - its integral stand pot it at a height where I was viewing it through the distance zone when sitting normally - far from ideal! I found that wearing the simpler pair at the range I could see well enough to dispense with the white stick 🙂 and could still get a satisfactory eyepiece setting and a better overall view.
Do discuss it with your optician. They might not have shooting specific experience but specs for specific purposes are not unknown - and would probably fall into the "cheap second pair" category.
 
protheroe said:
i have varifocals which are mostly ok apart from certain positions like prone.I've an eye test coming up so might get a spare set so would distance or reading glasses be better for scope use?
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Distance,,I've vary and I use distance part to shoot scope, there's a twist though,if you use a night add on like a pard,you're viewing a screen close to your eye,therefore you need your close focal,
 
leezgunz said:
Distance,,I've vary and I use distance part to shoot scope, there's a twist though,if you use a night add on like a pard,you're viewing a screen close to your eye,therefore you need your close focal,
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Yes i use a pard so maybe I'll get a pair or distance and reading.
 
Quentyn said:
agreed i have never had an issue, astigmatism makes using a red dot fun though ! if you have astigmatism and wonder why the red dot isnt a dot well it wont be for you
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I find the small red dot if IR isn't. It's a bundle of little red dots. Mind, I ordered a red dot reflex lady night, do that'll be interesting to see how it it goes
 
protheroe said:
Yes i use a pard so maybe I'll get a pair or distance and reading.
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I haven't got a pard but recently acquired a similar gadget, I couldn't get it to focus until I realised I had to pick my head up slightly to look through the middle of my glasses rather than the top,all good now,
 
Contacts for me as a fellow astigmatism sufferer. I'm used to them from riding a motorcycle and shooting a DSLR so it's no real change for me.
 
G-man said:
Just wondering if anyone had mastered any useful techniques when using glasses with scopes? I often have issues aligning everything particularly when prone and shooting upward. The lens of my glasses sometimes seems impossible to hold on the sweet spot central to scope... Advice would be appreciated. I did wonder about making a 3d printed lens mount for back of scope but not sure it will work 🤦
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I've returned to airgun shooting after a many year break. I now have a sidewheel focus and have been busy adding distance markings. The usual experiences with lenses focusing on screens (eg camera) is that the image on the screen is either clear or not. With scopes, the focus is on your eye, and I've found that there is a different focus point when waring contact lenses than when waring glasses. This means that the range reading changes depending on what I'm waring. I guess removing glasses when looking through the scope is okay as long as the focus ring has been marked with distances under the same conditions
 
I wear varifocals and I find that using a rubber scope optimiser assists me greatly in maintaining a consistent head position.
 
I wear varies and have astigmatism and find it easier to take my glasses off to shoot,be it through a scope or any of my Pards.
 
Always wear my vari focals when shooting and they are safety glasses.
 
No problem with prescription varifocal glasses, just need to push them up sometimes if they slide down on one of my rifles. I now use spotting scopes and binoculars with my glasses on rather than take them off, and can honestly say there is no difference in what I can see if they have the eye relief for it , and I've spent time checking in different lights!
 
Some very interesting views, Todays shoot meant the prone position was not ideal as where we shoot we had tall bluebells that would interfere with some of the low target shot lines. So interestingly enough i was using a higher point on the post as a front grip, this meant the gun was actually sitting higher into my shoulder. this seemed to really help with the glasses situation and results were far more consistent for sighting and hitting targets. still had to put the glasses lens practically on the eyeball but it did at least all center up in the sightline nicely.
 
I struggle with wearing glasses when shooting in daylight, focusing isn't the problem. reflections between the lenses are.
worse with bright light from behind or the side. the normal anti glare/reflection coatings don't seem to help.
Could try a shade on one side to block this?

However I can shoot in my Maui Jim precription sunglasses, the wrap-around curved lenses and double coating work wonders.
Not cheap tho...prices start at around £450-500 but they get plenty of use as I wear them from the moment I step out the front door.
Maui Rose has fantastic warm colour definition for all round use, I found grey and HCL too dark.

I had searched everywhere for clear wrap-arounds and found US made Pro-gear sport glasses, they make curved clear lens wrap-arounds, Disappeared from th UK market in 2020 with only a couple of UK online stockists so virtually impossible to try on.
 
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