Hating my new Vortex... Not sure why...

Lots of great info above, but those reporting on eye relief are correct. Nikon's run at four inches on center/ rim fire scopes and five inches on the black powder and slug models. However with your glasses you are pushed back a bit further then normal non-glasses wearers. As a comparable analogy, binoculars usually require at least 15mm of eye relief for eye glass wearers to be even remotely comfortable to use. Less then that and the image will be poorly viewed or you have to take your glasses off, not an ideal solution.

There was a post above about moving the scope to a comfortable spot, if you can't get that to go you may just have an optic that doesn't work for your eyes. Happens, best of luck finding one you can be happy with going forward.
 
In my case, it seem obvious that my eye really like the Sightron sight, i am in the process of changing many other scopes for a Sightron (even stored my 5X25 S&B in the safe as i prefer the Slll), since i am back from European house, i all ready bought 5 news Sightron, to my sight, they are the best out there... 0,02. JP.
 
Buy a Leupold, sometimes you cannot make other glass work. If you are shooting with glasses light is refracting one more time and how it refracts depends on the shap of your glasses and the lens in your eye. If Leupold works well for you stick with it, there is no reason to change. In fact buy the same scope you all ready have and replace the vortex with it. You will only frustrate yourself trying to make the vortex work like the Leupold.

Eyeglass wearers have different eyes and like it or not some optics work better than others and its a real individual thing. Honestly I wouldn't spend another second messing with the vortex, sell it and replace it with what works for your eyes.
 
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