Thread: Who wears glasses?

I wear glasses now for up close stuff- reading, surgery, but not for driving or hunting/shooting.
Question: how many shoot with glasses or contacts and does it affect the zero of your scope.

Originally Posted by ethos

Question: how many shoot with glasses or contacts and does it affect the zero of your scope.

Doesn't affect zero, but I get a clearer view if I take my glasses off. In practice, I take them off for longer shots and target shooting. No time for such niceties when bush hunting. I'm mildly short-sighted (-1.5) and increasingly long-sighted. Getting old is depressing!

When I was a kid I was diagnosed with Strabismus........Thats when one eye doesnt follow the other. What it does is that when turn my eyes to the right ( without moving my head,) one eye goes up while one stays level. What I see when I look to my right is 2 different views and if focused on an object I see 2 objects. The cure was to have prisms in my prescription glasses so that when I look to the right, it lowers one sightplane and raises the other so my brain ( what little I have left) gets one image and not 2. Looking straight ahead or to the left is perfect......
My glasses are tailored prescriptions which are unique to me and cost almost the price of a new rifle and scope.

I have been caught out a couple of times when hunting, where I have seen a couple of deer when sitting just on dusk, taken a shot and watched them both drop with headshots............but been disappointed when I walked over to find only one animal..............

The only benefit from Strabismus is that when I want to put the fear of god into children, I take my glasses off and turn my head to the left and look at them to give them the evil eye.........

Been hunting with glasses since my early teens. The condition does cause problems when using a scoped rifle, major problems actually. I have to move my head on the scope to ensure my right eye is exactly centred or the prism in the right lense will 'bend ' my view and the shot will not hit the point of aim. Couple with the above problem is that my long vision isnt all that great........

Having said all that, it didnt stop me from becoming a AA grade skeet and trap shooter and I still manage to keep the freezer filled with game meat...

Originally Posted by MB

Doesn't affect zero, but I get a clearer view if I take my glasses off. In practice, I take them off for longer shots and target shooting. No time for such niceties when bush hunting. I'm mildly short-sighted (-1.5) and increasingly long-sighted. Getting old is depressing!

Yeah, now I am older its glasses off to see up close and on for distance vision OR contacts in for Distance and the glasses over them for up close.
Starting to make my job real awkward. Mostly reverted to glasses now with contacts only when hunting and multiple pairs of reading glasses strewn thru all my shooting gear bags