Bifocals and scopes

[myg30]

Evening all, looking for some input on how you older guys like me view thruyour scopes.
I had progressive lens eyeglasses last year and this year went back to old style bifocals. I cant seem to get a clear site unless I lift up my glasses to see thru the reading part of the bifocal.
What happened ? Any suggestions,tips,gadgets to help here are welcome.
I really hate to shoot at a blur !

Mike

[waksupi]

Depending on your eyesight, you may be able to go with some of the drugstore 1.5 reader glasses. Works for me.

[Doc Highwall]

I have worn glasses with a strong prescription and bifocals for 40 years and I look through the top part for distance vision and adjust the cross-hairs using it.

Your glasses should correct you for distance vision if you are going to use them for shooting with a scope and adjust the scope cross-hairs and parallax if the scope has it.

[Naphtali]

Evening all, looking for some input on how you older guys like me view thruyour scopes.
I had progressive lens eyeglasses last year and this year went back to old style bifocals. I cant seem to get a clear site unless I lift up my glasses to see thru the reading part of the bifocal.
What happened ? Any suggestions,tips,gadgets to help here are welcome.
I really hate to shoot at a blur !

Mike

If all lesser methods, such as having an optician reposition where your spectacles rest relative to your pupils, this is your solution.

http://www.hansenseagleeye.com/index.html

Hope this helps.

[Von Gruff]

I have needed bi-focals for twenty years or so and simply by focusing my scopes for the top or distance part of the lense I have no bluring in use at all. That is the function of the focusing ability of the scope. If you have gone on from the progressive to the bifocal it is probable you have also had the preascription changed so a refocusing may very well be necessary.

Von Gruff.

[Taylor]

I wear bi-focals too.My distance is still pretty good.I can shoot with or without them.Mostly,I take them off.

[docone31]

I am stuck with quad focals. That is tri-s with an occupational set on the top of the lenses.
I have found that if I do not use progressive lenses, and have a distinct line to go around, I can see through my scope(s.
One thing I do, is to lower my tri-s so I have most of the large lense for distance focus. This also works well with pistol sights. I cannot however use reciever sights anymore. That sucks.
I am not sure I like getting older. I used to laugh at my elders when they said this,
Payback is a bummer for sure.
I wish I had been more compassionate back then.

[canyon-ghost]

I wear bifocals too. As everyone says, I use the top large section with the scopes. But, you will probably notice that I buy good quality 12 power scopes, too. I love my Adjustable Objective Leupolds.

Also, have a pair of work lenses, and a pair of good glass photogray lenses that I shoot in. It's not as much work if you have very focusable scopes along too. I still see well enough to shoot open sights with my glasses. Can't say I'm really good at it, but good optics shoot better anyway.

[Von Gruff]

I had my good glases, that are used for all outdoor activities and were primarily for work, made with the reading part of the bi-focal made very low in the frame as I found the normal aprox 1/3 -3/5 of the lense height to be intrusive and dangerous on scaffolding when I was building. The up-side is that a larger and less demanding position can be taken behind mo scopes. I have a second pair with ordinary height reading portion of the bi-focal for in home use where I might be doing a lot of reading etc. Of course these are not hardened lenses nor do they have a transition colour change ability.

Von Gruff.

[Tom W.]

I look over the top of my glasses and focus the scope to my naked eye.. It plays hob if someone else wants to shoot it, but it works for me.

[Artful]

I look over the top of my glasses and focus the scope to my naked eye.. It plays hob if someone else wants to shoot it, but it works for me.

near or far sighted?

[rmcc]

As stated by Naphtali, best fix is have your reading portion of your glasses lowered to allow your distance vision to align with scope focal plane. I always saw 2 sets of crosshairs until I did this. Good luck!!

Rich

[winelover]

I went to progressives three years ago. Would never go back to lined bifocals. My prescription is only +1 on the uppers and +2.5 on the lowers. Essentially, meaning that I can see well enough that I don't need them for distance. They are also Transitions, so I hardly ever take them off. No problems with scopes. I suggest finding an eye specialist that also is a shooter and have him make recommendations and or adjust your prescription.

Winelover

[higgins]

I wear progressive bifocals. I went a long time without shooting scoped rifles, and when I resumed shooting them, I first attempted to adjust the scope to my bifocals. Finally it dawned on me to just leave the scopes set where they were and resume using my old non-prescription shooting glasses when shooting with scopes. Works for me, but that doesn't mean it'll work for everyone.

[Von Gruff]

That wont work for hunting as if you cant see clearly enough to identify an animal then it matters not if you can see theough the scope.
This is where the lowered reading partician come into play. On the other hand I had another set of glasses made (so have three) that are just standard prescription for distance seeing and without the transition and found this gives me an extra 10-15 minutes over my transition set with the lowered bifocal lense.

Von Gruff.

[twoworms]

I have gone to shooting Nikon scopes for that very reason.

I have a few other scopes to sell soon when I get new Nikon's to replace them. The are VariX2's.