I had to get glasses and have been having a problem with them fogging up while shooting. I have used lens wipes but they do not work very well. Any suggestions ?

Consider shooting without them. I've shot with my reading glasses on for an experiment and did pretty well.

There is an Olympic archer who has very bad vision and is a top competitor.

If you do use the glasses, they won't fog up when the weather is warm.

Contacts.

If you have any shaving cream, clean them with it before you go out.

You can also buy an anti-fog spray. That stuff has been around for decades. I've worn glasses now for over fifty years and never had much problem. Usually they fog when going from cold to a warm house or car, not the other way.

Forget bifocals (not a fog problem, a distraction problem)

I wear tri-focals with no issue. :o)

I would give George's shaving cream idea a try. Anti-fog is not recommended for my particular lens coating (Crizal). So far though, I have had no issues with fogging.

I usually shoot in the mornings and yes it is a problem. When gap shooting it seems to fog up in exactly the wrong place.

There is a great commercial product made for that… It's called cat crap.

But that's not what it is… Really.

It is REALLY bad if you wear a face cover

I will order some cat crap (lol) and let yall know how it does. Thanks for the info.

I ditched the face cover and use face paint due to fogging.

If my glasses fog I am overdressed or moving too quickly.

I will try shaving cream as once you fog up it's a pain to fix.

I have progressive lenses and they force me to twist my neck and head left to have good head position with my master eye over the arrow and not looking out the side of my glasses. Almost a shooting aid!!

Depends on the humidity and how fat a Guy is and how much he sweats.The type glasses you have also play a role how tight they are to your face and eyebrows. I tend to wear plastic clear framed with no lines, single vision because I am nearsighted.

I don't think glasses are as much of a problem for those who have worn them their entire life. I just got glasses this winter for the first time at 53 yo.and they worked pretty well but with issues. Fogging was one and double vision sometimes depending on the lighting. I need bifocals but got contacts for distance only and they are working great for shooting. I truly got my accuracy back now that I can see definition again....should have done it 5-7 years ago.

take them off , not a lot of choices there . I shoot better that way

You need to use anti fog that helps a lot .

Spit on them and wipe off.

Shaving cream is best been using it for years.

If lasik eye surgery is an option, you may want to look into that route. I went from glasses to contacts to lasik. Been a great experience for me.

Contacts cause various grief and for many still require reading glasses depending on correction...as does Lasik for some...so I shoot with single vision (best quality & coated), can read up close without but also use drugstore readers...bifocals confuse 3-under. Wore glasses for 60 yrs.

I can't shoot with my glasses on

I've always shot with glasses...better now with single vision...may have to do with frame fit...nfg if frames slip down nose...try some kind of string or Croakie..

Mine are single-vision, frameless design; only thing better for shooting is contacts, if you can get the same level of focus.

Of course, if I'm wearing contacts, then I need the cheaters to do anything up close. As it is, it seems almost like I only wear my glasses when I'm driving, because I can see a computer screen just fine without any correction at all....

One thing I've noticed as I've been experimenting with different anchors lately, though... I have to be careful about keeping the string out in front of my lenses. I've slung the specs a number of times snap-shooting moving targets, but never on stationary ones. Decided to go back to a slightly more conservative spot....

One more word of advice- when you choose your frames, make sure you can see around 'em. And make sure you're not looking through the edge of the lens where distortion can occur..

I can shoot with my glasses since I've worn them since I was around 10 years old. I have been wearing contacts also since 1970. Used to wear gas permeable and now wear soft lens. Those are what I shoot 3Ds and hunt with. Once you are used to them you don't even feel them and it's like you aren't wearing anything.

Are we talking about contacts, or the pink, frilly underwear worn by all the guys drawing less than half their body weight?

I only wear them when I'll be doing something outdoors - had the 30-day kind and ended up getting about 6 days' use out of a pair because I was wearing them so infrequently.

Last time around, I got the daily use type. Awesome. I need to check my Rx and buy a big supply so I'll wear them more often...

I have tried contacts a couple of times but struggled with them . The doc said something about my eyelids are to close to my eye or something and it moves my contact.so its glasses for me. My eyes are not terrible 20/50 but i see so much better with glasses

I wore glasses for 50 years. Only time they fogged up was when I went from the cold outdoors to the warm house. But mine were the old fashion ones with fairly big lenses that did not set close to my face like goggles. I remember using many of the anti fog ideas above. I had glass lenses so Windex was what I used. I do remember guys that had issues in the hot, humid summers of Viet Nam. We had no "bag of tricks" so if glasses became an issue we took them off.

I had cataract surgery back in 03 and I feel liberated. I do use reading glasses but I could have had one eye done for far and one done for near= no glasses.

I was not a candidate for contacts, my eyes watered. I remember more than once looking for a guys contact on the football field!

Glasses are terribly annoying for shooting and hunting.

Contact lenses are wonderful! They correct my vision better than glasses. Depth perception is much better too. So, I shoot better!

It took a very talented and patient eye doc to successfully get contacts to work for me due to astigmatism. 9 different types / brands - free trials. The result is worth the effort!

Trifocals for years now. Use shaving cream.= as antifogger. It is a bitch shooting pistol with tris, but my draw ends up looking thru my top, distance,lens. So icanshootwith them. You can get used to them

Other guys have good ideas to share. There are tricks that can help. Cat Crap works fairly well.

Contacts correct my distance vision so I see like a hawk. But, cant read, so use readers to see up close.

Or, just put a contact in my dominant eye for distance vision. The other eye sees fine up close for reading. The brain somehow sorts it out and I can see great up close and at a distance. A benefit for shooting is that the dominant eye controls and the other eye has fuzzy vision at shooting distance. It works to improve shooting, like they used to do with Olympic shooters - put a piece of tape on the lens of the shooting glasses on non-dominant side.

Try glasses, and try contacts, find out what works for you the best. Clear care cleaning solution makes contacts feel like new every day - no dryness. I replace lenses every 30 days.

Right now, I have lost my distance glasses (again) so I can't use them even when I want to. I lose them every week, because I take them off and leave them somewhere when doing something up close. I don't lose my contact lenses because they are stuck to my eyes. Today I did leave my reading glasses somewhere - I still have the case.

Best wishes.

Fisher, you might want to wear a string on your glasses. Alternatively, certain medications may reduce your glasses- loss expense.

Bifocals are fine for shooting split finger, but 3-under, anchoring at my cheek bone, jars reading/distance. That's why I shoot with single vision.

The VERY worst thing about bifocals of any sort can be mis- judgement of steps when climbing/hiking in rocky/cluttered terrain...the hikers/climbers I know have all shifted to single vision. Contact loss wastes a lot of everybody else's time, not just that of the loser.

No telling how many traffic accidents are caused by the huge blur areas of even the best of no-line bifocals.

I use a lens cleaning spray due to the coating on my glasses lens.Haven't fogged up yet. Can't use contacts due to a cataract in my dominant eye. Recently got new glasses with a lens for the cat eye that's almost three times as strong as the old lens. This has been a real struggle to try to shoot. Fogging up is the least of my problems. To the op,just try all of the ideas and use what works for you. Contacts ARE the best way to go.

A shooting buddy lost his dominant eye and is doing fine (even distance judgement) with the remaining orb.

Eye dominance shouldn't be a concern if you shoot with both eyes open. This is a learning issue.

Get back to us after you have worn them for a year. Eye strain will make mine fog.

DDave

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