Posted: 7/13/2026 8:58:21 PM EDT
| Those who wear prescription glasses, how do you handle getting a good sight through your scopes while wearing them? When I'm prone (which is 99.87% of the time), I look over the top of my glasses, so I just remove them. However, swapping back and forth messes with my eyes for a bit while they acclimate. I'd think a taller mount would help, but I'm afraid that it would induce stress or fatigue over long periods. And the height that I think would work would be ridiculous. |
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| I wear progressive lenses and don't have issues, but I don't have a crazy prescription. Have you adjusted your scopes diopter..? I can switch between wearing glasses and not with about a quarter turn of the diopter. |
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Originally Posted By CoyoteGray: I wear progressive lenses and don't have issues, but I don't have a crazy prescription. Have you adjusted your scopes diopter..? I can switch between wearing glasses and not with about a quarter turn of the diopter. No crazy prescription either, I just physically can't look through my glasses and the scope while prone. I do have the diopter adjusted. |
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| I wear progressive bifocals, with iron sights I have to tilt my head up a bit to get to a clear picture of the sights. It looks strange to someone else but works for me. With magnified scopes not so much. |
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Originally Posted By Ohio_Man: I either wear contacts or take my glasses off when shooting rifles, shotguns or with NVGs. Diopters on scopes are there for a reason. Originally Posted By Sajer: I have bi focal now , still plays a bit of havoc depending on the rifle and scope set up. When I wear my contacts its a bit better , but certain red dots will flair more with the contacts in compared to glasses. I hate being old and nearsighted..... Tried contacts. I could either spend 10 minutes trying to get them in, and 30 seconds to get them out. Or pop them right in and spend 10 minutes fishing them out. I gave up after a couple of weeks. 
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| Prone is rarely necessary for me but this is where a little nail polish comes into play. The rifles where prone is a thing, the scope has a red mark where glasses are used and white one where they are not. Just a quick adjust and wallah, it’s good. I should add that thermal and night vision are set up to shoot without glasses, I just do grandpa and wear glasses around my neck. |
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Originally Posted By grumpyoldretiredcop: I have progressive lenses and just adjust the scope's focus. The only time I've used specifically set up shooting glasses was with handguns and it wasn't that much better so I've stopped doing so. It's not a focus thing; it's a being able to see through my lenses while looking through the scope thing. |
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