Difficult to see through rifle scope after wearing cool Wiley X glasses

elker

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I got a pair Wiley X glasses with prescription. I was happy. It was cool looking. However, when I tried it on my hunting trip, I was disappointed. I barely can find a angle or eye distance to look through the scope with Wiley X on. I had to take it off.
My Scope is Leupold FX II 6x.
The Wiley X is like this
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I wonder if someone else has similar experience
Thanks in advance for your help
 
If they are polarized the image will come and go as you tilt your head.
If it is something else you might want to be a little more descriptive. You're not giving us much to go on here.
 
Ok. It is polarized. If in standing position, I can see through the scope and get a normal sight picture. I saw four bears that day, btw. However, if I knelt down using a fallen tree to support my rifle, I could never see anything. But in the same time,if I took off the glasses,I could see the target as usual.
I'm thinking by wearing such glasses, I can only see the target higher than my eyes.
I tried to tilt my head to see through the scope,as you said, it comes and goes.
 
elker said:
Ok. It is polarized. If in standing position, I can see through the scope and get a normal sight picture. I saw four bears that day, btw. However, if I knelt down using a fallen tree to support my rifle, I could never see anything. But in the same time,if I took off the glasses,I could see the target as usual.
I'm thinking by wearing such glasses, I can only see the target higher than my eyes.
I tried to tilt my head to see through the scope,as you said, it comes and goes.
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Just as I thought.
Same happened to me with my Nightforce and my Oakley's. Took me a minute to figure out what was going on. Now I have a different set of lenses for when I go shooting.
Don't shoot with polarized glasses, problem solved. :D
 
I tried tinted glasses, yellow, pink and orange. They all suck compared to clear glasses. Maybe I needed to spend more than $40 to get any benefits but thats not happening
 
Prescription glasses are most optically accurate when they are flat than when they are curved. I mean the general shape of the lense not the optical correction. When you are looking straight ahead, you are looking through the lens at something like 90 degrees. Any other head position and you're looking through the lens at a wicked angle and everything distorts, and even worse, interacts badly with the optics of the scope.
 
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