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I am getting up in age a little and i now need reading glasses only 2x up close gets blurry is there a scope that will let me adjust for seeing the crosshairs? I can adjust the view fine but the cross hair rather milldots are a little blury with the glasses its good but its a pain in the ass using glasses and shooting 
 
The scopes I've used have enough adjustment in the eyepiece to allow me to shoot without my reading glasses. Never tried with the the readers. I was trying to avoid multifocal contacts. Shooting with no correction (no contacts, glasses or readers) was the best for me but I gave in and went back to contacts. I cant handle bifocals! Also can't deal with changing vision correction preferences between activities so I shoot with the contacts and deal with it. 

Try to adjust your ocular/eyepiece so you can shoot without your glasses. You may need to rezero a few clicks.
 
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On the ( ocular) the rear eyepiece of the scope. People call this a fast focus where the + and - is on top of the scope. If you adjust this first looking at a light colored object near by (out of focus on object. Adjust ocular until cross hairs are in focus. Then adjust parallax. If this doesn't work for you then glasses are required. Also if you are diabetic your eyes will change with your blood sugar spikes and bottoms. It affects your eyes greatly. That is why some people can’t see out of their glasses sometimes. Just thought I would throw that out there. I hope this helps and good luck with them eye balls. MM
 
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My eyes are also "getting weaker" with age (currently 72 years old) and I'm returning to using glasses with my scopes with no issues clearly seeing the reticle. About 15 years ago I had LASIC eye surgery which changed my 20/200 vision to 20/20 but at my last eye exam a few weeks ago my vision has degraded to 20/30 with the beginning of cateracts. This isn't an issue for most of the things I do however I am having issues when shooting hunter class field target matches without glasses because it's becoming more difficult with age to get a good "scope rangefind" which is used to determine the amount of holdover when aiming.

The "ocular lens" (fast focus eye piece) is used to focus the reticle to your eye........

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The "fly in the ointment" however is that adjusting the "fast focus eye piece" also affects the amount of parallax error when focusing the objective or sidewheel which may cause the focused reticle to not be on the image. This can be easily tested by focusing and looking through the scope. If the image appears to move when the eye position is moved after focusing there is a parallax error. This isn't much of an issue if the eye placement isn't exactly the safe every time, however I'm personally pretty sloppy when sighting and I adjust my "fast focus eye piece" so the image in the scope doesn't move with a "head bop". It used to be that I had to compromise the sharpness of the reticle a BIT to get a "non-moving image" when moving my head side to side however with my new glasses and prescription I can set the ocular for a sharp reticle plus "non-moving image" with a head bop.

Anywhoo.......I do agree that using glasses with a scope is a bit of a pain but I do what I gotta do!

I picked up the "head bop test" by shooting field target matches which relies on scope rangefinding to determine distances from this blog by "The A Team"......

http://www.bcsportsmen.org/ft/A_Team_Parallax_adjustment_procedure.pdf
 
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The ocular focus should not affect parallax error (see A-Team procedure). However, it can affect how one perceives the focus of the target, which could mean that you are in/out of parallax adjustment when the target looks to be in good focus. Once you achieve correct parallax via "head bob" - you can adjust the ocular focus to be correct for BOTH the reticle and target. This can be tough - jsut spent an hour trying to do that in flat light and gave up. The ocular adjustment (if the ocular piece moves greatly) can affect POI.
 
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I also have vision problems more with iron sights than scope. When I get the front sight in focus the rear I’d blurry and visa-versa. I began using an adjustable Merit peep site that attaches to your glasses with a suction cup. 

I haven’t tried it on a scope I only use it with iron sights on my pistols and revolvers. I’ll give them a try and get back to you if it helps. 

https://www.eabco.com/merit_apertures.html


 
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Just for consistency of terminology, the reticle can be focused using the eyepiece adjustment. It is a set it and forget it adjustment (unless your eyes change). That is not parallax adjustment. Parallax adjustment focuses the target for a specific distance to eliminate parallax error at that distance and is adjusted by either an adjustable objective bell or a side focus knob.
 
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