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Do the people that need reading glasses use them while looking / shooting thermal scopes? I wear them to see the remote but not to shoot while calling.
 
This was my biggest issue, couldn't read the remote, so I was stuck using glasses and taking them on and off. Went to a helmet mounted thermal (Rix Stride) and now can leave my glasses on the entire time and it's fantastic.

Will never go back
 
I suffer from nightmare of needing readers to see remote, but need to take off to shoot. Trying to have reader dangleing from a neck cord is good way to accedently strangle yourself if you also use handcall or remote lanyard....add a binoc bag it gets worse. Moving up to a shockwave and a roughnec I can see those remotes well enough w/o needing readers and saved someone else the site having to find a body in some frozen fielld strangled to death due to over lanyarding themselves.

I was seriously looking at Col. Klink monicles. Figured you'd have watch fob cord to coveralls or bibs and just let it drop outta eye when not needed and always there hanging from string....looking at them there is some nasty looking wire clips that clip to eye socket somehow.....like getting your glasses installed to "watch movie". Clockwo
rk Orange style......"I.....your humble narrator.....".
 
My left eye doesn't work since March '23 but before that I read my remote with a cheap pr. of readers that I took the lens out of the right side of the glasses and shot w/o needing to remove them. Since the problem I got an Icotec which has a larger font on the remote which I can read with my right eye w/o glasses though it is fuzzy.
 
I’m kinda screwed both ways. Distance more so than up close. I hate wearing glasses when I hunt so default to contacts. Problem is that with contacts in for distance, I can’t read my remote at all. I just wear a contact in my right eye for shooting, and nothing in my left eye. I adjust my scanner’s diopter to my left eye, and can still read my remote well enough. It’s working. For now anyway
 
When I sight in the thermal I use the readers to see the target better at 100 yards. I probably should start using the readers while hunting and stuff also. I think while looking through the thermal I can see better with the readers / glasses.
 
I only use them to look at the remote. I don't have a thermal, but looking through a scope without glasses is just fine. The biggest problem I've had is getting busted putting on and taking off the stupid glasses. I had a double come in sometime back and the lead coyote saw my hand movement and turned away alerting her partner that I was there. I was able to stop and shot her at about 150 yards, but after the shot the other one was running at full speed 2 or so hundred yards away. No shot at him. Since than, I got a new call that has a remote with a font big enough to read without using glasses.
 
v2k said:
Do the people that need reading glasses use them while looking / shooting thermal scopes? I wear them to see the remote but not to shoot while calling.
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I wear contacts for distance, and no problems looking through the thermal. If I stare at my remote long enough, sometimes it comes into view good enough to kinda read. I have 4 presets on the remote, which are pretty much all I use.
 
I can’t read the remote without readers. My solution is to use glasses with no correction in the top 2/3 with bifocals in the bottom 1/3. Works fine except for smudging from the thermal eyepiece.
 
That is the one reason I love the Minaska, WT and FP tx500 remotes nothing to read just punch in the number of the sound you want.

I have readers scattered all over the west when using a FP remote. Read the remote take them off and lay them on the ground in case I need them and forget them when I leave. Used to buy multi-pacs from Costco at the beginning of hunting season. Now my right eye has deteriorated to the point I wear bifocals all the time. I do have them made with a small bifocal at the bottom of the lense to give me a better down vision. First bifocal I was still working on rail cars and had to jump from the top of one car to the next imagine my surprise when the landing pad blurred out halve way through the jump.
 
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