First World Stalking Conundrum - Stalking and sunglasses 😎

[Jh1986]

Just a bunch of fellas off for a fashionable stalking session

 

[John Gryphon]

fashionable stalking session

In Oxford St Sydney

 

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As with my reply to Glyn, I’ve never used glasses to look through binos, thermals or scopes and it just doesn’t seem to work for me (scope less so due to the eye relief) but I look through my binos more frequently than my eldest daughter looks at her phone

You soon get used to it. I wear varifocals and used to take them off when stalking as my long vision wasn't too bad but it has deteriorated a bit and I now stalk with my glasses on. Took a few outings to get used to using the thermal and binoculars with them on but absolutely fine now.

 

[NickJ]

Morning

Thoughts/ advice please. I’m just back off a warm holiday where I’ve been wearing high tint sun glasses all day and yesterday, managed to get out on a stalking outing with a colleague in the very warm and bright conditions. Driving to/from the ground - sunglasses on. Stalking the ground - sunglasses off but with wide brimmed Aussie hat on to give some protection but I found I was having to squint most all of the time due to the bright clear conditions. Thankfully, whilst I have to wear glasses for reading my long sight is good so thermal, binos and scope are all set up to use without glasses. Yesterday was an “on the sticks, off the sticks” sort of day and the last thing I wanted to do was to include the faff of having to deal with removing sunglasses before using the thermal/binoculars or to take a shot.

So, question: does anyone have a simple practical solution to wearing sunglasses when stalking? I seem to recollect there were some flip-up type sun glasses from years ago when fly fishing.

Any suggestions?

Note of caution, at a recent BDS range day it was cracking flags weather and I kept my sunglasses on by mistake when shooting.
Group was 3 clicks right called by @Selous so
I adjusted my scope then realised I had my sunglasses on, took them off, Group was 3 clicks left so our scope back to where it was!!
It could have been another factor of course but I hadn’t massively changed much between strings.
We were both in Africa last week and, although I wore a baseball cap or a wide brimmed Tilley hat at times I wore sunglasses but removed them to shoot

 

[NickJ]

Note of caution, at a recent BDS range day it was cracking flags weather and I kept my sunglasses on by mistake when shooting.
Group was 3 clicks right called by @Selous so
I adjusted my scope then realised I had my sunglasses on, took them off, Group was 3 clicks left so our scope back to where it was!!
It could have been another factor of course but I hadn’t massively changed much between strings.
We were both in Africa last week and, although I wore a baseball cap or a wide brimmed Tilley hat at times I wore sunglasses but removed them to shoot

Sunglasses were otherwise up on my hat with an adjustable cord for security

As for those with prescription glasses I got fed up with glasses with short sightedness, mainly due to the rainfall in the areas I live and stalk in! Over a dozen or so years ago I saved up and had my eyes lasered, the best £3k I have spent. I only needed reading glasses for the last 12 months even though they said I would need them immediately

 

[Rory]

Just a bunch of fellas off for a fashionable stalking session

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[John Gryphon]

Over a dozen or so years ago I saved up and had my eyes lasered, the best £3k I have spent. I only needed

 

[JohnCZ]

Being an Aussie I wear sunnies all of the time in the fear that my pupils will melt.