I just came into a super nice 686-4 with 8 3/8" barrel and Leopold base and rings. These look like 1" rings. I was wanting to use the 686 at the 50 yard range, perhaps as a camp gun or hiking sidearm among Eastern Oregon's sugar pines (I usually hike with a medium and large size dog) throughout old forest service roads that prohibit motorized vehicles of any type. A very remote possibility would be to hunt deer because my time may have passed to hunt due to age, etc.

My eyes are 65 years old and I usually wear corrective driving glasses while driving. I have an Ultradot Matchdot II on a Ruger Government--but the dot tends to blur at 50 yards.

Can some one recommend a solution to pick glass over a red dot or visa versa? If so, what specific models would you recommend? Thanks a lot for reading this post.

If you were just going to the range, then a scope would be fine. But after many days out in the woods with such optics, I've quit hunting deer and such with 'em. Reddots have been far superior for that task. (I still run iron sights on occasion, if I know that any shot taken will be fairly close in, say 30 yards or less.)