Bifocal contacts?

[Titan_Bow]

I hate getting old and my eyes seem to be going quick. I missed a decent buck tonight just before end of legal light. Things were just fuzzy when I settled the pin. I’ve got bifocal glasses but I can’t shoot with them and shooting in brighter light hasn’t been a problem.
I really need to get some bifocal contacts I guess. What should I be looking for as far as brand, features, etc? Anyone using bifocal or multi focal contacts?

Thanks


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[Luked]

i wear contacts all the time. have been for 200 years.
last exam i had my Eye doc said in the next couple of years ill have to go some type of reading or whatever.
i have noticed my eyes changing the last few years. i asked the Doc about bifocal contacts and he told me flat out i wont like them. his advise for me was to buy a cheap set of readers. mine could be differrent from you as far as vision so take that for what its worth.

 

[Vaultman]

i wear contacts all the time. have been for 200 years....

I thought I was getting old!

 

[KP20129]

I was having to wear readers over my regular contacts which was a pain in the butt and caused me to wear glasses more often. Eye doctor had me try the multifocal contact lenses and they have worked great. I do think I gave up a little long distance vision over regular contacts but my close up vision is way better than with regular contacts. I would definitely recommend trying them. I think they are Acuvue multifocal.

 

[Dos XX]

Been checked for cataracts?

 

[TheGDog]

You need to get yourself a pair of glasses made specifically for hunting. Yes to Bifocals. NOT Progressives!!

My hunting pair has a very wide lens area, and I had them make the bifocal part much lower than normal, only like 9mm of the area of the lens vs what would normally be like around 13mm. For greater FOV to spot game.

And the upper part of the Rx lens is geared toward distance viewing. Seeing iron sights on my pistols is more challenging with that pair, but totally doable if they are nice chunky 3-Dot combat sights.

Sight pins weren't a problem though.

I tried doing contacts. Bad idea out there... all the contaminants/pollen or whatever blowing around in the air out there and all that. I'm not a good candidate for the contacts overall because my eyes REALLY don't like anything touching em. I also have a "heavy-brow", my upper eyelid is usually concealed in my brow, so getting my eyelids open and apart enough to put them in is such a PITA!!! And most of the damn time even when I'd get it placed upon my freakin eye.. as I'd attempt to retract my finger back away, damn it if the damn thing doesn't want to come back with damn near every time! Have to also really wet-up my finger before placing the lense upon it.

I'll do it sometimes in order to pull-off like a Halloween Costume where glasses would inhibit your ability to do that look. But that's about it.

EDIT: Also.. when I tried them out in the field...OMG... when attempting to remove them because of the pollen causing irritation or whatever.... the damn things got trapped way in the hell back into the corner of my eye! I couldn't get them out for a dang while! Total major PITA and unsanitary trying to dig your stubborn dirty contact out with your in-the-field-all-day-dirty-fingers into your freakin eyeball.

 

[505Wapiti]

I wear multi focal contact lenses. Have for a couple years now. I’m very near sighted and as I got older, with contacts or glasses without bifocals I couldn’t see diddly up close. They aren’t perfect but it’s better than my regular contacts I had before. The only thing I’ve noticed is they seem a tad bit heavier and my eyes seem a little tired of them by the end of the day. That said I’d rather wear them than glasses, especially outdoors, shooting and glassing which is a no go for me with glasses.

 

[eldeuce]

Biofinity bifocal contacts. I've been using these for at least 7 years.
I use them everyday at work and around the house, pretty comfortable for up to 10+ hours.

I do NOT use them for scoped rifle hunting; I decided a long time ago that I didn't want anything between my <not so great> eyes and the rifle scope. I hunt with the long focus glasses, and take those off for shooting through the scope. Just seems contacts make for one more thing to go wrong on a hunt. My rifle scope focus is perfect for my bad eye, wouldn't work for anyone else.

ALTHOUGH, I do/must wear my long focus glasses for open sights muzzleloader.

Keep readers of some kind in my pack, in case I need that.

Before next season, I'm going to talk with optometrist about daily contacts, or something different. See what he says