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Struggling with my shooting 😪
I ware glasses, a pair for distance and a pair for reading. What do you guys do when shooting in a similar position 🤔
Makes looking through the scopes difficult.
 
Can’t shoot with mine, everything looks canted.
Contacts in and I’m fine
 
Bordertwo said:
Struggling with my shooting 😪
I ware glasses, a pair for distance and a pair for reading. What do you guys do when shooting in a similar position 🤔
Makes looking through the scopes difficult.
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i wear glasses to read,but on the scope i have to wind focus ring right back and i dont need my glasses
 
There may be an extender on the eye piece (like Binoculars) Screw it in. Could also try shooting with them off and adjust ocular focus.
 
I wear my distance glasses and tune the scope as it were. I need a bit more magnification and will be getting a new scope soon. I tried using my reading glasses but I can't use them out and about. It was too much at the club. I would go up to shoot and I would have the rifle and other bits and my glasses and my range flag and other crap. And the glasses had to go. Modern scopes are so flexible.

EDIT: I will add I am right handed and left eye dominant. There is a large difference between the two eyes. Like I said you can tune out the difference with modern scopes.
 
I have to use reading glasses but find I don't need them when using a scope has it does the same job correcting my vision but load loading 177 pellets in to a mag I definitely do
 
I wear them for anything past about 10 foot, but close up I'm fine. I don't use them for looking down a scope, as the scope acts as my glasses. I just can't see the target too well when not looking down the scope!
 
I ran out of ocular adjustment with the Hawke Vantage on my TX so I ground a +3 lens to the correct O/D and inserted it into the ocular and the rubber shroud keeps it in place.
I use binoculars for spotting before taking a shot and the Pard 008 on my .22lr adjust’s to the range easily + of course I can use the 13.5 x’s button if required.
My other scopes are Vortex and I’ve not run out of ocular adjustment during daylight + they have a Pard 007 slapped on them at night which has plenty of adjustment to focus + SF.
Never wear my glasses when shooting they either steam up or just get in the way.
 
My vision is so so and I only use glasses for driving and hunting to avoid eye strain. Never use them with the scope though because I obviously don't wash enough and the grease on my face always ends up putting a smear right where I'm seeing the reticle.
 
I wear varifocal glasses and use them while shooting and don't find it a problem.
Having said that i did once have a pair of varifocals that had shallow frames therefore because there wasn't a lot of depth in the frames/lenses i found that while using them for shooting my eye fell on the transition area of the lens which sort of gave me a double image of the reticle. Changing to some glasses with a bit deeper frame and therefore deeper less shallow lenses cured the problem.
If you're normally a spectacle wearer then you can shoot without you glasses but depending on how bad your vision is without your glasses and the amount of dioptre adjustment on the scope you may run out of adjustment or be on the maximum adjustment.
 
I too am long sighted. Used to wear glasses to guesstimate ranges but then take them off to look through the scope...... what a faff that was!
In the end I kept my glasses on but adjusted the ocular ring to suit. Much better now
 
Thank you all so very much, useful information will try adjusting the eye piece to see if it makes a difference, I'm a bit of a novice regarding scopes and what you can do with them.. I presume you alter the eye piece closest to where you view, where it reads + or -
 
Bordertwo said:
Thank you all so very much, useful information will try adjusting the eye piece to see if it makes a difference, I'm a bit of a novice regarding scopes and what you can do with them.. I presume you alter the eye piece closest to where you view, where it reads + or -
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Is that the ocular ring ?.
 
Bordertwo said:
Thank you all so very much, useful information will try adjusting the eye piece to see if it makes a difference, I'm a bit of a novice regarding scopes and what you can do with them.. I presume you alter the eye piece closest to where you view, where it reads + or -
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You adjust the eyepiece (ocular ring) to get the reticle(cross hairs) nice and sharp.
To do this first decide whether you intend to shoot wearing your glasses or without them.
Then whichever you choose adjust the eyepiece until the reticle is pin sharp.
You do this by looking through the scope either at the sky not the sun of course or a plain interior wall and turning the eyepiece adjuster until the reticle is sharp.
While making the adjustment(s) don't continually look through the scope but look through for a few seconds only while making each adjustment. If you look continually without looking away between each adjustment your eye will tend to compensate for any errors or mis-adjustment.
 
Patrick said:
You adjust the eyepiece (ocular ring) to get the reticle(cross hairs) nice and sharp.
To do this first decide whether you intend to shoot wearing your glasses or without them.
Then whichever you choose adjust the eyepiece until the reticle is pin sharp.
You do this by looking through the scope either at the sky not the sun of course or a plain interior wall and turning the eyepiece adjuster until the reticle is sharp.
While making the adjustment(s) don't continually look through the scope but look through for a few seconds only while making each adjustment. If you look continually without looking away between each adjustment your eye will tend to compensate for any errors or mis-adjustment.
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Thank you , sounds easy enough, much appreciated 🙏
 
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