Contact lenses are great, I have been using them for years, vanity and the maths of years of contact lense wear are now pushing me towards laser surgery. Like all things it will get worse again over time. But so be it, I have toyed with it for years, just never had the courage to do it until now.
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I have been wearing monthly disposables for 20years. Like has been reported one for long sight and one for near sight. The brain compensates to give normal sight. I always carry Hand cleanser and the proper solution, as the results of eye infections are very painful. You can’t use water as a lens cleaner as you will get a protein build up and infection.
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I have just started wearing contacts again after a 20 year break I have a high prescription and I love them .
I used to have gas compound ones many years ago and when working a door shift in Glasgow one broke in my eye so was put off for a long time but these soft ones are great
I used to have gas compound ones many years ago and when working a door shift in Glasgow one broke in my eye so was put off for a long time but these soft ones are great
Same here. Been toying with it for years. However, my contact lense prescription is gradually coming down as eyesight tends to get longer with age (ie, more difficult to read close up etc). At some point I may not need the lenses anymore, but glasses for reading.
A friend of mine had laser surgery in his late fifties, and reckons it's the best thing he ever did (although he now can't see anything close up without reading glasses). My son's girlfriend, who was very short sighted, had the surgery when she was about 20, and now, just a few years later, the effect is wearing off and she's back to wearing glasses (admittedly not such thick ones as she had before, and she can manage most things ok without them).
Ok, so contact lenses can be a bit of a fiddle at times, but they are a very practical low risk solution to simple sight correction issues.
Huntersforge
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I have been wearing glasses and contacts for 30 years and have now found that the daily disposable ones are the way to go. Easy enough to carry a spare set along with hand sanitizer. As the previous poster said you don’t want an eye infection.
I used to wear vari focal contacts took a bit to get used to them but they were ok for shooting , a few years ago I developed cataracts in both eyes after a bit of a NHS wait I had em both out and lenses put in 
now back to having 20/20 on the distance again, only downside is I have to use glasses for reading but I can live with that.
now back to having 20/20 on the distance again, only downside is I have to use glasses for reading but I can live with that.
I did consider laser eye surgery but have been informed it needs to be redone after 8-10 years, so have ruled that out.
I'm happy to take the chance, differing people have differing outcomes. It's taken years to build up to it. Contacts work very well, however I am applying for a position with a set eyesight standard. I'm just aiming off to cover all bases.
Spot on I had laser surgery in 2011 and I'm now back to square one
Nope. tried it always and on different scopes.
Without trying to teach you to suck eggs as thats not my intention, have you tried focusing the reticle while pointing it at clear sky?
I wear varifocals and simply move them down my nose to look through the scope for the shot. A pain to keep lifting them to my forehead when using the binos as I prefer the full view rather than screw the eyepieces in and look through them with glasses in place. I have never tried contacts and after reading the replies here will definitely talk to the optician about the combination of long distance contacts and reading glasses.
enfieldspares
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I wore and shot in contact lenses for certainly twenty years being naturally shortsighted. I had no "split cross hair" problems. Nor did, or do, I have "split cross hair" problems when shooting in spectacles to correct that shortsight before nor after I stopped wearing contact lenses. So my 2p is that you need dedicated glasses to do just one correction of your sight. Even if that means carrying a second varifocal pair for when the rifle is back in its case or gunslip. Jayson's at Long Eaton do glasses that sit high on the eye as a clay shooting friend uses them and swears by them.
I went to the opticians today, to collect new glasses, and new contact lenses to test.
I was really excited to find out, that contact lenses have just been introduced, that will darken in sunlight, just like coated glasses will do ! AMAZING !
Sadly, I have an astigmatism, and torric lenses haven't been release yet but they will eventually
I was really excited to find out, that contact lenses have just been introduced, that will darken in sunlight, just like coated glasses will do ! AMAZING !
Sadly, I have an astigmatism, and torric lenses haven't been release yet
but they will eventually Or maybe the person has an astigmatism,
But are you specs varifocals? That is what is giving me the problems. Scope is spot on. has been checked with beads in every conceivable position!
Again no. I had my eyes checked less than a month ago
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