When shooting with a scoped rifle do you wear prescription lenses (close or distance) or clear safety glasses?

I always wear my prescription glasses.

I am far sighted. So, up close I need some "reading" level 
eye correction.  SO
I use quality bifocal safety glasses, yellow lenses
and  2.0 diopter bifocal which enables me to see my scope adjustment knobs up close for making corrections.$
They are only about $18 on line/ebay.

beltfed/arnie

Jeff   Your remark, although sage advice, did not answer Ray H's question.

I've always worn my prescription eye glasses while shooting a rifle with a scope. I'm horribly near sighted and now wear progressive lenses.

Since you should always wear glasses when shooting, I have shooting glasses made just for that. I had my cataracts removed so my vision has cleared up. My distance lens is only -.5 but I had the bifocal made so I can see my sight or scope adjustments without having to back up a lot to see them.

My research concludes that prescription glasses with lenses of polycarbonate material are usually acceptable; however, "safety rated" (per ANSI) polycarbonate is preferred. 
Also, the scope must be adjusted to "fine tune" the optical picture to the specific prescription of the eyeglasses.
Near sighted shooters will likely benefit from corrective lenses to better see the target.
Obviously, eye protection makes good sense. 

If you are like me and besides the near and far sighted problem I also have astigmatism and must wear prescription glasses using scope or iron sights.

Deadeye Bly wrote on Aug 19^th, 2024 at 7:48pm:

A word of warning to anyone getting cataracts done. They of course break it into two operations. A year or so later they will do the other eye. Discuss your requirements from the new lenses and make damn sure you and your surgeon are on the same page. I had mine done at VA. The first went just fine. The second was done by a different surgeon, who inserted a lens of a different focal length. She claimed, without ANY discussion, that people want different focal lengths. It was a disaster. Double vision, etc. They tried or discussed every corrective approach they could think of, from inserting a second, "piggy back" lens to contacts. You need to discuss it with your surgeon and make sure you're both in agreement. It would be great if you could get the same surgeon the second time.

Work requires me to wear safety glasses so i have all my prescription glasses made with ANSI lenses. I use them for shooting as well. No issues with scope or irons. progressive lenses make it easy to see adjustments.

Basically the same as Oneatatime. No problems whatsoever, one week apart and the surgery was a breeze, about 12 years ago. The Optometrist put in progressive lens and haven’t had to wear glasses at all since then.

Hypo5.0 wrote on Aug 19^th, 2024 at 9:03am:


I'm tacking this onto Hypo's to get it seen. I manufactured and sold anti-fogging lens cleaner many years ago. When glass fogs, it's called adsorption- the moisture continues to pile up on the glass, but in adsorption it's spread out on the surface, eliminating fogging. Any soap-based detergent will reduce or eliminate fogging. Applying it with a Q- tip is a good start. If you want to experiment with mixing it to make it last longer on the lens, Neutrogena soap is a good start. Keep in mind it's eventually going to reduce to a hard nubbin.

Many years ago I had shooting glasses made but found your eye needs a few days to properly adjust to changing your glasses so converting to alternate glasses would not solve my problem unless I wore them for days so my eyes balanced to them.

Progressive lens like most eye glasses losses their clarity and increases distortion near the edge of the glasses which you are looking through when shooting through a scope.

The clarity and distortion of the edge of the lens were compensated with Essilor Varilux progressive lens technology which helped my vision when shooting with a scope and irons as well.

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