While hunting opening weekend of Muzzle loader in Oklahoma I had major issues with glare from both my set of Nikon binoculars and Nikon Omega 3-9x40 scope.

The stand was facing West toward the feeder and I had a buck under the feeder and all I could see was that it was a buck because of horns coming out of its head; the entire field of view from both binoculars and scope was filled with a golden colored glare and I could not make out any other detail about the buck other than it had horns. I couldn't even count the points because of the glare.

Distance from me to the feeder is 112yds, and even with the sun falling below the trees I still was getting glare until darkness came; if I looked to my 3 o'clock or 9 o'clock position at the same distance everything was crystal clear..... but facing the sun even with it setting under the tree line all I got was glare.

Anyone else ever experience this?

These binoculars & scope are the only Nikon optics I own; everything else of mine is Leupold...... and they didn't glare on me.

i had that problem with a Nikon Monarch 4-16 a few years ago. I’d have tried to live with it, but it broke, which sort of solved the problem.

I have had it happen with good optics, put a T-shirt over your head and the optics

That's pretty common if you're looking right into the sun or near it. Adding a sunshade will help.

Ive had it with a few scopes shooting east into the rising sun. I don't think its a scope issue.

Looking into the sun... a sunshade helps a bunch

Tried shading the lens of both the scope and binoculars with my hands and even a jacket and no help.... Funny never had this issue with my Leupolds!

The glare or flare I had with the Nikon was way more extreme than anything I’ve ever seen from any other scope I’ve used, and that’s a lot of years of using scopes.