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Due to my 44 years of age I require regular glasses and reading glasses. I have a pair of prescription glasses a pair of reading glasses and a set with transition lenses (from regular to reading with out the line in the middle) and a pair of traditional bifocals from the USAF.

The problem I am facing is for some reason I can not focus on the target at 100- 200 etc and the reticle. The only thing that seems to help is a 14 power or more scope.

CAN SOME ONE WITH AN IDENTICAL PROBLEM PLEASE HELP ME?

I have work eyeglasses for over 65 years & have a problem centering some binoculars. My Zeiss & Minox work fine but an older Pentax just will not work. I have Zeiss bifocals that increase/decrease light transmission based on ambient light & they help. I would suggest a visit to a specialist that hunts. This helped me.

I have glasses with no near correction for hunting and outdoor use. I refocused all of my scopes after I started waering glasses at about the same age. I had one scope that was a pain t get focued properly. I focused it on an object at 100 yards away (the range the scope is set parallax free) and now it's right on from 2x to 8x. I found I had to focuse the image as well as the reticle. I can use my scopes wearing my transition glasses after I got them set while wearing my distance correction only glasses. My flight frames had bifocals and flat out sucked for optics use. I never really used them since I started out with the progressive lens.

Fotis,

Like you, I have to wear glasses. I focus my scopes on their highest setting by looking at the sky through the scope and adjusthing the crosshair. Then looking away from the scope and let my eyes focus. Then I look through the scope again and focus the crosshair. When it is as good as it's going to get, I lock it down.

I don't mess with them again unless the crosshair is not sharp when I look through the scope. I don't remember having to do that, though.

I was shooting through a 3x9 Leupy Vari X 2 compact. So when you say focus I take it you mean the rear ocular? (since there is nothing else to focus or turn--other than the power ring)
Gotta try that.

You don't mention your distance prescription, but as I'm in a similar situation as you, I was going to post the same thread. I am slightly far-sighted, a +1.25 correctin, +2.75 for reading. I have tried three different systems.

1) No glasses, I'm still better than 20-30 without glasses, it's just that my correcetd vision is 20-10 and even 20-20 looks blurry to me which drives me nuts. The problem with no glasses is my sights are out of focus, so I can't use my open sighted rifles without glasses. I can shoot ducks with my shotgun just fine, because I'm focusing on the bird out 40 yards or so.

2) Just my distance glasses. Works fine except in wet weather where they get wet, or twilight where I get a glare from behind.

3) Contacts. Having never needed glasses until I turned 55 or so, I didn't have any history with contacts, and it was very difficult for me to learn to put them in. Even now after practice, it is a hit or miss thing at five in the morning, in a rush to get underway. But when they are in I have almost 20-10 vision, can just bring binocs up without fiddling with glasses, don't fog up in wet weather, work well with rifle or shotgun. I like it all except the putting them in in the morning part.

So I don't have any set deal. If the weather looks good I usually just wear my glasses, then if it turns bad while I'm hunting I take them off and go without. If it's raining or snowing, I'll try to give myself time in the morning to put my contacts in.

One of my things is we pay so much for alpha quality binoculars, it seems stupid to cut down that alpha view by looking through lesser grade, wet or dirty glasses. Even when I'm wearing my glasses I always take them off to look through my bins.

John

dude why do you need to see close up when your hunting? Get a pair of far away lookers, and keep these on when you shoot and hunt. Transistion smishion, my bud who wears these things says "why do you have 3 reticules in that rifle scope" I said "Norm, take your glasses off"

I have presbyopia myself and hunt with my single far seeing lenses, I don't need to see close up when I shooting stuff

You SHOULD only have to focus the scope until the reticle is sharp, as described by Ringman. The only downside is that the scope will be focused only for you.

Personally, I cheat when it comes to glasses. I have my eye doc set my distant vision to 20/15. That's a big help in spotting distant game and/or picking out birds in flight. For daylight wear, I used single-vision "Drive Wear" lenses. Unlike traditional color-transition lenses, they adjust to brighter/darker light even when inside a vehicle. They really make things pop in the field. Very handy. If the company knew what they had, they could easily market them as prescription shooting lenses.

When it starts to get too dark even for those glasses, I switch to my normal RX transition lenses which have the close-up portion riding a bit low in the lens. Distance is also set to 20/15. This way, scopes remain focused for me by virtue of using only the top portion of the lens when looking into a scope.

Have to tip my head back a bit when shooting handguns, but that's OK. I've learned to live with it.

What I meant to say is progressive. Lenses that transition from distant to reading without the line in the middle. Sorry for the confusion.

I have never felt comfortable shooting since I had to start wearing glasses. Seems I get eye strain from looking hard for game, and then even though I have focused my scope, it is hard to see animals clearly, once I put my gun to my shoulder. Maybe, I am not seeing the right doctor? Gonna talk to the next one before I let him just give me a prescription.

I'm near-sighted and also have slight astigmatism so have to wear glasses. I use mostly fixed-power Leupolds and focus the way Ringman described and then check to ensure the reticle is sharp at 100 yards on a piece of target paper with grid lines. I've never had a problem with this method.

Huntbear,

The last couple of times I had an eye test I had the doc take me outside to finish up the test at distance. It really makes a difference.