People who wear eye glass while hunting

[moose1am]

How do you keep your eye glasses clean and keep them from fogging up when you go from a hot truck into the cold night air and back into the warm truck again.

My last night hunting trip I had a hard time with my eye glasses fogging up on me. My breath was making them fog up faster than normal. I had the Parka collar wrapped around my neck and it funneled my breath onto my eye glasses when I was looking down to see what I had in my pocket of my hunting vest. I could not see a damn thing when that happens. It's sort of debilitating when that happened at night and all you have to see with is a light on the baseball cap.

I don't see that good in the day time and it's harder to see at night even when the glasses don't fog up on me.

I got some stuff from Gander mountain that's suppose to prevent the glass from fogging up. You get three individually wrapped packages of treated lens cloth that you are suppose to use to clean the lens on your eye glasses, rifle scopes and binoculars etc to keep the glass from fogging up on the outside.

Any time it's cold enough for me to see my breath at night my eye glasses or scope's outer glass surface wants to fog up on me.
Not good when you can't see your hand in front of your face at night when the coyotes may be coming in to see what you are doing with that dying rabbit call.

[moose1am]

Well I'll add some more info to this thread. I decided to update my soft contacts to the ProClear Multifocal Torex type lens.

I picked up my trial pair yesterday afternoon. The right lens is spot on but the left lens is not working right. I checked my eye glass prescription and then the Contact Prescription that was on the package that the trial lens came in. They is a difference in the Left Contact Lens prescription as compared to the eye glass prescription for my left eye. My eye doctor is not very forth coming with information and pretty quiet. He said to wear them for a couple days to see if they start working better. But I've been to this rodeo before I know from many years of past experience wearing contacts that if they don't work right out of the box they area not really going to get any better. Either the doctor got the prescription diagnosis wrong or they failed to make the contact property according to the prescription. Based on my research I think that the doctor got the prescription written down wrong when he ordered the trial lens or they sent the wrong lens. But he should have checked to make sure that his office got what he ordered.

But the bottom line is that these work in my right eye. That's my shooting eye too. I'm left eye dominate though which makes it hard to see using the left eye with the left lens not working well. I'm going to insist that he give me a new left lens with the proper prescription. I know that the prescription in my left eye has changed as I just got new eye glasses not too long agon and at first I could see well out of my left eye with the new eye glasses. But these days I'm having trouble seeing with the eyeglasses. My vision is changing.

But now I should not have to worry about carrying reading glasses with me all the time. These new Multifocal contacts are designed to allow you to see up close and far away. While I won't be reading books with fine print out in the field while wearing these contacts I know that I'll be able to see things up close and far away at least using my right eye.

Also got a appointment with the Orthopedic Dr and he said it may take about 3 weeks of ice treatment and stretching exercises to calm down the injury to my left elbow. That sucks as the coyote hunting season will be over or almost over by then. He's going to wait three weeks before he tries this other treatment. I could have gotten a shot of cortisone but opted to try the ice treatment and exercises for the next three weeks. I'm not real keen on having cortisone shots. They work for a while but they are also risky for long term use IMHO. My appointment was originally set for June and then they had a cancellation so they moved me up to May. But yesterday the doc had more cancellation due to the bad weather so I got an appointment. They called me and told me to be there in 1.5 hours. So I got ready and went in despite the nasty road conditions. Actually the main roads were dry and clear of ice and snow for the most part. But my driveway is a mess. It's covered with ice. While backing into my driveway I went too far to the side and got the truck stuck in the ditch at the end of the drive way. I'm waiting for a friend to get out of school to help tow my truck out of the ditch. I only have one back tire in the ditch with the other on the ice covered concrete of my driveway. But I can't get any traction on that ice and the right rear wheel is in the snow and ice covered ditch where the culvert funs under the concrete driveway.

I was wearing my new contacts while backing up into the driveway and went too far to the right as my mail box was on the left and I wanted to make sure I didn't hit the mail box. Well I miss the mail box by a country mile. I'm getting too old and stiff to turn my head/neck around to see out the back window of the truck.


Edit added on 5/21/15. I got the truck out of the ditch ok but it cost me $70 for a tow truck to come pull me out. My neighbor's brother was busy at school and I got tired of being stuck at home so I called the tow truck and didn't wait the neighbor's brother to come pull me out of the ditch.

I ended up going to another eye doctor. This eye doctor was my original eye doctor in the past but he's pretty expensive so I tried some of the other eye doctors in town. But they don't have the expertise and facilities of my original eye doctor. My original eye doctor said I had an epiretinal membrane covering the retina in my left eye which was why no contacts worked. It was like trying to see though wax paper. I needed a retinal operation and also had a cataract developing rapidly in my left eye. So I ended up getting both eye's operated on to remove the old lenses and two intraocular lenses added to my eyes. I chose to have the laser assisted cataract surgery so that both eyes could have not only the lenses fixed but the cornea reshaped to repair an astigmatism in both eyes. Then after the cataract surgery I had the retinal surgery done to remove the membrane and release the traction that was pulling on my retina and distorting my vision. I now have 20/20 vision in both eyes. But I see things bigger in the left eye. It's as if everything is closer when looking at things with the left eye. It may take a full year after the retinal operation before the left eye's retina is fully healed. It's still a bit swollen now according to my retinal eye surgeon.

I noticed that now when I shoot a pistol at arms length I still have some astigmatism at that range but not at longer ranges. I can see fine at distance without any problem with my right eye. So I'll probably need to wear shooting glasses when shooting pistols at the shooting range. I can shoot without them at short ranges but at 25 yard and farther out the double vision effects how I see the three dots on the pistols sights. Therefore I see two front dots on the front blade of the pistol and that had a effect on where I hit the target. When I wear reading glasses with a 1.25 diopter correction I see the front blade more clearly and can see the target at distance too. It's just that Now I have to wear reading glasses of 2.50 diopter to read books and see small print when looking at paperwork. I can see fine out at a distance beyond about 30". But from 30" and down to 5" I need reading eye glasses to see fine print on labels and to read books. I use the 1.25 diopter reading eye glasses to see the computer screen and to shoot the pistol.

The EOTECH laser light is focused at the same focal plane as the distant targets so I see it fine without eye glasses.

The regular eye doctor's staff told me that after my eye heals (left eye) I can get either prescription eye glasses that are bifocal or contacts.

[uncleharley]

The night before I go hunting, I take a dab of liquid soap on the end of my finger & apply it to each side of my glass lenses. Cover it all over but not real thick. Let it dry over night & the next morning take a clean tissue, no oil or additives in it, or a clean hankerchief & polish the soap off each side of your glasses. Keeps them fog proof all day. I've used this for deer, turkey & goose hunting where I had to wear a camo headnet with glasses. It really works well.

[moose1am]

Apr 1, 2014 8:36:10 GMT -5 uncleharley said:

The night before I go hunting, I take a dab of liquid soap on the end of my finger & apply it to each side of my glass lenses. Cover it all over but not real thick. Let it dry over night & the next morning take a clean tissue, no oil or additives in it, or a clean hankerchief & polish the soap off each side of your glasses. Keeps them fog proof all day. I've used this for deer, turkey & goose hunting where I had to wear a camo headnet with glasses. It really works well.

Thanks, I'll try to remember that trick next hunting season when it gets cold again.

I like the part about letting it dry on the lens.