Hunting with and without my glasses - question

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I sighted in my rifle for hunting, without my contact lenses in or glasses on. So when I look through the scope as I have the eyepiece currently adjusted, everything is clear. When I use my naked eye, my vision is pretty good but, but since I may be trying to spot a deer out to 200 yards, I am thinking it might be a good idea to wear my contacts so that my vision is perfect. But if I wear my contacts, that means when I look through my scope, it will not be as clear with the current eyepiece setting. So I would have to re-adjust the eyepiece, which I can easily do.
My question: If I adjust the eyepiece to adapt to my contacts, will that have any effect on the bullet's points of impact at the various ranges I sighted in at (50 yds, 100 yds., 200 yds), since I sighted in the gun without my contacts?
I am thinking it will not change my points of impact, since the view through the reticle will be the same and I am not changing the windage or elevation settings. But I just want to be sure.
Hope I am explaining my question clearly.
PS - No time to re-sight in, which is why I am asking this question.
Thanks
 
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When using a rifle with optics, I always look through it over top of my glasses. I don't need the glasses up close so I just use them to spot game/targets then look over them to shoot. Yeah I know, eye protection and all of that but I can't see close up with my specs or far away without them.
 
Good news, thanks Robert.

And Ontarget, that was another option I was considering: Spot with my glasses and then take them off to shoot. But I will probably just re-adjust the focus and wear my contacts. (I can wear contacts or glasses).
 
I hunt a lot, and IME, glasses or contacts are just another superfluous lens, which "confuses" the eye, when used with binoculars or a rifle scope. I
carefully set my diopter on my binoculars, (good glass is very important, buy quality) and
set the scope carefully for my right eye. I then let the binoculars and rifle scope act as my
"glasses" when hunting, and leave my actual glasses in the car.
 
I have been wearing glasses 35 years. I have had some of my rifle scopes 50 years. I have never noticed enough difference in the image quality to touch those scopes.
It may be because my right eye is stronger than my left eye.
What I have found is that hunting with a good 7X binocular gives me much better vision and luck than the bad habit of glassing with a rifle scope.
 
Dibbs and Ireload - Thanks, another option I was considering. I will have my 4x rangefinder with me, so I can use that as binoculars, plus I can bring my 8x binocs as well. I will have a guide with me as well and he is very good at spotting.

In any case, I am sure glad I don't have to re-sight the gun in!
 
I knew a guy who wore glasses, who shot very well, hitting game way out there. He was a WWII veteran who walked all the way across France carrying an M1 with plenty of practice.
When it came time for business he would take the glasses off of one ear and just let them hang from the other ear while he looked through the scope.
 
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