The eyes have it - or not!

goathunter1

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Now then. I am over 60 and my eyes are deteriorating. I wear glasses most of the time but, until recently, not whilst stalking. Now I need help.
When I was abroad, the very top man in the country fitted me with, very simple, contact lenses, but I do struggle with them.
What are you guys doing? Shooting with specs on? Lasered? What?
My lifelong pal has always worn specs. Looked through his binoculars with specs. It seems funny to me. If I fit rubber caps will it just begin to feel normal?
Not that long til the stags. What do I do?
 
I have had to wear specs for twenty years or more. Its just a case of getting used to them really. Biggest problem I find is rain, so wear a hat with a big peak or broad brim. High humidity can also cause fogging up, so keep a lens cloth handy too.

I have found varifocals can cause a problem when looking through the sight, so I have a pair of single vision specs that I use for rifle and shotgun shooting.

I do occasionally use the 'daily' disposable contact lenses but not enough to get really competent with them, so struggle a bit.
 
Wore specs for 30 plus years. Tried contacts but didn't really get on with them. About 9 years ago had my eyes lasered - sair chuffed! I drove back next day for check up much to annoyance of better half. My sat nav had her eyes lasered a couple of months later.
Works for me wasnt cheap but to me worth it. Silly things like not having to hunt for specs in the morning, or drying the things when raining. Being able to choose a nice pair of sun specs that don't need prescription lenses. Or better still being able to read while soaking in a bath without misting up! Down side, in my opinion, glare while driving at night has increased but that may just be a getting older issue.

Briar
 
I was told laser eye surgery couldn't correct deterioration caused by age. Any body know more about it.
I wear varifocals. I cannot wear them whilst stalking or shooting. Distorts the picture through the scope!
 
" Lazered" less then a grand, 12yr ago via a ebay deal! I break out in a sweat thinking about the " gamble" i took. Needn't have worried it still remains the best grand i ever invested!
 
Been wearing contact lenses all day, every day, for almost 25 years. Brilliant.
One day, though, if I ever have the funds, I'll go for laser treatment as per post #5
 
Thanks guys. Do you have to do anything with your binoculars as in the way of eyepieces so that you can bring them up to your specs - or do you kind of hold them away?
 
I went for a laser consultation as I've started wearing glasses for long distance......brilliant, I'd be able to see for miles without glasses BUT I'd need to start wearing glasses for reading!

I don't wear reading glasses at the moment and told them so but he replied "If we correct one then the other goes" so I asked him what's the point and why didn't he tell me this right at the start rather than an hour in to the consultation to which he replied "normally if we tell people this at the start of the consultation, they walk out"......at which point I walked out!!!!!
 
I wore glasses from the age of 4 till i was 40, then had my eyes lazered.
When speaking to them, i was basically told i would require reading glasses in 10 years (50) due to getting older.
But was just fed up wearing glasses for so long so was not bothered.

If your in your 60s i would say it would be a waste of money going for the lazer treatment.
 
same scenario here when I put glasses on whilst stalking I may have strapped the swaros to myself so much better but I find them awkward esp when walk stalking in winter and wearing a snood .....fogging .may try contacts .
good thread
cheers Norma
 
Had laser surgery years ago , have to wear cheap reading glasses but eyesight is perfect for stalking ,best money I ever spent
 
Thanks guys. Do you have to do anything with your binoculars as in the way of eyepieces so that you can bring them up to your specs - or do you kind of hold them away?

It depends on the design of the eye-cup. On modern Swarovskis for example, one simply turns the eye-cup down. I do this with my SLCs and get a full field of view with my specs on. On some older models the eye-cups were rubber and one had to fold them over to achieve the same result. It really isn't that much of a problem.

If the binoculars do not have adjustable eye-cups, then one cannot get a decent picture whilst wearing specs, so a good excuse to buy a new set of binoculars.
 
I've just begun to wear specs for distance. I only wear them driving and stalking. Biggest pain is when combined with ear defenders - so I'm getting different hearing protection. Rain and mist is an annoyance, but I'm not sticking things in my eyes (contacts) and I'm not running the risk of irreparable laser damage.

My binoculars have two settings on the eyepiece, down for with specs and up without specs.

Sharing binoculars birdwatching with my shortsighted wife can be tiresome.

Me - glasses on, bin eye cups down - ooh look at that its a lesser-spotted-little-brown-thing. "Let me have the bird book." Glasses off, reading the bird book.
She - (having been consulting the bird book) glasses off, eye cups up. "no, I reckon its a GREATER-spotted-little-brown-thing". Glasses back on, grab for the bird book.
Me - glasses on again, eye cups down.........


....and repeat.


Yes - we need another pair of bins.
 
JockStalk, is this not the perfect excuse needed to give her your binoculars and upgrade? Or are you using top notch bins already? If so, that could be expensive because she won't want to go back to using any old optics (I made that mistake myself).
 
Sorry to go slightly off topic

I've been considering laser eye surgery for a long time , who did you all use for your eye surgery ?
 
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