I wear progressive bifocals also, and have a pair of cheap glasses I ordered form zenni optical for shooting that are for distance only that are not bifocals.
I have contacts that are the same way, for distance only. I wear the glasses practicing and contacts hunting.
I could not see well at all with the progressive bifocals when trying to shoot compared to the method I use.

I do also use a 2x lens have for years, it is not a issue at all hunting.

 

Progressive lenses didn't work for me. I use a single vision with a bifocal for shooting.

 

Same here.

 

My progressives get in the way. I'll either shoot no glasses, and use the light to make my pin visible or with bifocals. I might get a verifier and shoot without glasses.

 

I have wore glasses all my life. Bifocals now. Doesn’t seem to bother me outdoors or hunting. Something about indoors, fluorescent lighting, something, I can’t shoot for crap.

 

I have progressive bifocals as well. It's my up close vision that needs the correcting hence the glasses. I have to push my glasses tight to my face before each shot so that the frame isn't in my way or I'm not looking over the frame. My pins look almost tictac shaped but target is clear. I tried a verifier peep with a low verifier lens in to clear up the pin and it cleared up the pin so it was more round and clear but then the target got a little blurry. I took the lens out because I'm just more used to being able to see the target, at least for now. I find if I reduce the light coming into the pin it helps bring in the tictac shape a little bit. When sighting in my bow I have to always remind myself which part of the pin I'm using to sight in because if I use the left side of the tictac pin and then mistakingly use the right side that I can be off almost 3" at 40yrds. I have a bad habit of switching back and forth on which side and continually trying to train my brain to pick and use the same side always.

 

Wearing progressive lens glasses and target was always distorted. As "V-TRAIN" indicated and has done, I ordered an inexpensive pair of glasses using my DISTANCE ONLY prescription, and that has cleared everything up

 

My normal day to day glasses are progressives but for shooting I bought a pair of single vision glasses.

 

I wear glasses to help with distance vision but my eye doc has been on my case to swap to progressives or bifocals for years since age is stealing my near vision as well.

For archery, I'm focused on the target and the pin is a blurry dot. I just center the blur where I want the arrow to go and all is well. It feels a little uneasy to not have the pin at least a little in focus but it becomes intuitive once you're used to it.

 

My biggest problem with my glasses is my prescription is quite strong and when I aim thru my peep the pins don't line up. The color gets distorted thru the thick part of the lens. Even though when I look at the pins strait on they are in a line but when I am shooting and looking thru the peep they end up looking like this. Doesn't seem to affect my POI as I still put the pin on the target the same.

 

I have the same issue. Not sure about you but I have astigmatism and am nearsighted. With contacts I didn’t have this problem (just all the frustrations with contact). I can’t remember my rx but I think I have progressive lenses.

What’s helped me is getting larger frames and using a vertical pin sight; that sawtooth effect drove me crazy. Using green/yellow pins in a boonie seems to be the best, I have green/red in another spot Hogg and I notice that color issue more.

 

I use a magnified peep.

 

Yep. I have progressive bifocals. I can't shoot with them. I also have trouble walking on uneven ground with them. I got a pair of sporting classes that have the script on the entire lens and the lenses are VERY large. They make it much easier to shoot and shoot well.

 

I wear glasses with bifocals. I just get standard bifocals but have them put them at the very bottom of the lens , as low as they can. Works for me. I wouldn’t want to be in the woods and not be able to see print or have blurry up close vision.

 

I tried progressive lenses but I found that there is no correction toward the edge of the lens (which is what I am are looking through when looking at my sight.) Bifocals work good for me but I only have a +1 correction for distance. (+2.5 for reading) My pins are a bit blurry but my target/ animal is clear. Additionally I went to a longer bar for my sight to move the pins further from my eye. That also helped a bit more. I use a normal peep with a large diameter hole and no clarifier. This combination has worked well for me for hunting and 3d.

 

Before you do anything, get your distance prescription and buy a pair of cheap readers in the nearest magnification. I gave up progressives for trifocals for archery some time ago. Not too long ago I damaged my trifocals and ended up buying a pair of readers that I keep with my bow for emergencies. They work great.

As far as seeing the pin goes, nothing has helped me. I keep my focus on the target for best results.

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Two years ago I was shooting at an Easton Archery Center. There was a guy shooting a recurve exceptionally well wearing glasses. I asked him for advice and he said to get an old school lined bifocal with the bifocal a couple millimeters lower than normal. I followed his advice and it’s exactly what worked.
I later learned the guy shooting that recurve exceptionally well was an active USA Archery Team shooter. I had no clue and he was one of the most chill and helpful archers I’ve ever met.
A cheap pair of lined bifocals and a chance encounter changed how well I shoot with glasses.

 

I wear progressives with a moderate prescription and don't have a problem as long as they haven't slid down my nose. I've made pushing my glasses up part of my shot process. The vision defect that affects me more is my astigmatism. I can't use any kind of sight with fiber optic or LED dots. By the time they're bright enough to see, the astigmatism makes the spot flare out in a starburst that makes them unusable. I have to use a stick-on aiming dot on the lens. I also a verifier in my peep sight.

 

My optometrist that bow hunts, years ago told me that I do not want bi-focal/progressive lenses.

cannot see far, actually eyes are not that bad. but I wear glasses all the time.

big thing is, buy frames with a narrow nose piece, so you are not looking along the edge of the lense.
Not them big black plastic frames either. Wire or rim less frames, my nose piece is an 18, previously had a 17.
one time accidentally bought a pair with a 21 nose piece, could not figure out why things were blurry when shooting. Took them back and got the correct frame..

 

No glasses when shooting for me, went 43 years with no glasses and they put me in progressive trifocals this year. No way in heck I can shoot with those things on.

 

I have to wear them to shoot and it did take me just a minute to get used to it. I had to learn how to space my peep off the lense. Once you do a few times it becomes natural. I don’t like wearing contacts. Too much to deal with.

 

This has been a helpful thread for me as I also were progressives and sometimes it’s fine and sometimes not. I’ve found the same thing where I need to make sure glasses are tight to my face and I’m not looking the out the bottom of my glasses but the upper part. So as long as my peep is adjusted right it works fine for me. For my target bow I use a clarifier with my glasses and I can see my pin and target well enough. But I’ve always wondered about getting just a regular distance only set so I can avoid the progressives and you guys have convinced me to give that a try before year end as my insurance will cover two frames for me this year. I can’t do contacts cause I’m a wimp and don’t want to touch my eye and I also have an astigmatism. I hope the single lenses help and I also try to make sure my glasses are a little bigger but also rimless and fit tight and close to my nose. This getting older thing really sucks.

 

Progressives were terrible for me.
I have trifocal lenses and a center drilled 2x scope with trulglo fiber. Looking through top of lens in glasses I focus on the target. Glasses are wire rim so dont interfear with sight picture.

 

I found progressive lenses made me nauseous. So now it’s reading glasses with contacts with astigmatism correction—which means I’m fumbling around the reading glasses to adjust the sight and the pin is blurry. Or bifocal glasses with astigmatism correction, which always warps the sight picture. Seems to be getting worse every month. So next spring instead of archery equipment I’m getting eye surgery.

 

I have progressives, just make sure you’re looking through the top of the lens. I push mine up on my face prior to shooting. Having **** eyesight sucks

 

I have the same problem. Been wearing glasses with severe astigmatism since i was in elementary school. Tried contacts but they made things worse, never being able to focus. Doesn't help that in my state both verifier and clarifiers are still illegal for bowhunting. I found vertical single pins help me focus, but i still gotta limit my yardage. I go back and forth focusing on the single pin and target. Then lastly back to the pin holding steady on the blur to take the shot. Nearly 50yrs old now, my sight is increasingly getting worse that i gotta get new prescriptions every year. If i were you i'd try single pin see if that helps a bit.

 

I use the same prescription as my usual single vision distance. At the typical pin-to-eye distance, my pin is not blurry. I use a lens + fiber, so the target is a bit blurry anyway. Better target blurry (it is at least still smooth) vs pin blurry, because that risks turning into a starburst. No verifier or clarifier used.
During my latest eye exam, I purposely asked the optometrist to write an "archery prescription", which is to subtract 0.25 to the right lens. This acts like a mild clarifier, but since it is right up against the eye instead of at the peep, there will be no minification (image shrinkage). I haven't gotten these glasses made yet, though.
Some suggestions:
get glasses that have a small nose-bridge spec so you're better able to see thru the inside corner
may want to purposely shift inwards the pupilary distance on your aiming eye
may want to increase the "base curve" on the lenses to reduce barrel / peripheral distortion
do not get polycarbonate lenses, which have a bad abbe value (chromatic aberration)
make sure the nose pads and ear hooks are well adjusted so the glasses don't slide down your face after a while.