Binoculars for Glases Wearers

[mscher]

Anyone use and can recommend binoculars that can be used with glasses?

Don't need the best made, since my hunting budget is already long blown.

Maybe under $200?

 

[skargo]

Re: Binoculars for Glases Wearers

I bought some at ****'s sporting goods that have an eye piece extension that comes out for glass wearing people.
I'd go to a sporting goods store and try a few out.

 

[arks]

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Yeah, my old Tasco's have little rubber cups that can be extended for eyeglasses or rolled up for bare eyes.
I may be wrong but I think that setup is fairly common on binoculars.

 

[Bob_VT]

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I use a cheap tasco set and I adjust the lenses to compensate for my eyes and I use them w/o my glasses..... I adjust my rifle scopes the same way. I hate wearing my glasses and I absolutely will not shoot a high powered rifle with them on

 

[BWR1953]

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I do sorta the same as Bob_VT. Don't wear my glasses with binoculars, but DO wear them when shooting... for safety.

 

[Bob_VT]

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Actually, I do wear shooting glasses for handgun and rifle but since I have trashed so many pairs based on recoil I refuse to wear my RX glasses

Funny thing is that I have a wide selection of rifle scopes from tasco, nikon and leupold ...... I have had friends pick up my rifle and ask me how do you see out of that scope.... I laugh and said if you had my eyes the scopes look perfect!

 

[wajajaja02]

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basically use them with your glasses and the one side set to the neutral adjustment and you should be fine, or with out glasses you will adjust the one side to a object with single vision then bring the other in focus using the fine tune

 

[TilliamWe]

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I use a cheap tasco set and I adjust the lenses to compensate for my eyes and I use them w/o my glasses..... I adjust my rifle scopes the same way. I hate wearing my glasses and I absolutely will not shoot a high powered rifle with them on

I know where mscher is coming from here. I can't get the binoculars to adjust for my eyes without my glasses. It's great that you can, Bob, but for me (and I'll guess for mscher too) all binoculars do is make things seem closer but blurry. No adjustment makes the image clear.
And most cheap binoculars have very small diameter plastic eyepieces on them, causing you to have to put that against you glasses lens, which makes the bino lens about 3 inches from yours, and that makes the image tiny.

But for under $200 I am sure you'll find something. I only spent about $20 on mine, so I didn't expect a custom fit! For 10 times that price it should very doable. Good luck.

 

[Bob_VT]

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I do know that the small "pocket size" do not adjust enough for my eyes and I am constantly just giving them away. I would love to have a tiny set but I have not found any (including high end) that adjust enough. My tasco pair is full size and the eye piece adjusts enough for my eyes.

I do have a simmons scope on a 22 mag and that adjusts SO easy that if I push on the eyepiece is is knocked out..... it does not lock in. One of these days I am going to epoxy it in place but my eyes get worse every years

 

[skargo]

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http://www.birdwatching.com/optics/2007roundup/chart_main.html

 

[WizeOne]

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..... I hate wearing my glasses and I absolutely will not shoot a high powered rifle with them on

That's a real OUCHIE for sure, especially if you have a long neck, like me. You need to bury your cheek so far down onto the comb (to get down on the scope) that you come away with a severley bruized cheek bone or smashed glasses.

I've even taken to re-letting the stock, on some of my guns, and lowering the comb to compensate; shotguns in particular.

 

[bassman284]

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I use a cheap tasco set and I adjust the lenses to compensate for my eyes and I use them w/o my glasses..... I adjust my rifle scopes the same way. I hate wearing my glasses and I absolutely will not shoot a high powered rifle with them on

yah, rolling the eyecups back just isn't satisfactory. It's a pain to take the glasses off and on, but at least I get decent field of view through the binocs.

 

[marlboro180]

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Dont know if you found your solution, but here is mine.
Ive got an old F Body Nikon film camera outfitted with a 400mm zoom lens that has seen its day for taking pics. Seems lenses do not like off road gravity tests at 30 mph. So, I haul that around for spotting and never need to take my glasses off. Not the greatest FOV, but pretty good in low light.

 

[skargo]

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yah, rolling the eyecups back just isn't satisfactory. It's a pain to take the glasses off and on, but at least I get decent field of view through the binocs.

I need to look at mine, you don't roll eye cups back, ours has am eyepiece that slides in and out, and works great.