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Any suggestions how to clear up the blurry pins? I've heard of clarifiers for a peep but I'm not certain if that's the solution I'm looking for.

Verifier did it for me. Use Green pins only or maybe a yellow, pitch the red ones as they are major distorters for older eyes.

It is a bitch getting old.

From StickFlicker’s link:

A Verifier is used when you shoot with pins to clear up the pins, and a Clarifier is used when you shoot with a scope and a lens to clear up the target. Verifiers are generally preferred by older archers who have lost some ability to focus on objects that are close-up, such as sight pins. Clarifiers are usually preferred by tournament archers who want to see the target more clearly when looking through a scope.

I tried them all, and the one that worked best for e was to go with the contacts in different focal distances, or "powers" as they are often referred to. I liked the aiming eye, my right, to have the pins in pretty sharp focus. It not only helped me shoot my best, but kept the pins visible in the lower light conditions when the hunting is usually best. I did find it best to close my left eye at final aim, to avoid occasionally getting a confused signal to the brain that would cause a wide miss to the left, about foot and a half at 30 yards, on a shot that felt perfect. It shouldn't happen, but I've talked with other archers who had the same thing occur. It's just once in a while, but under the right lighting conditions I would occasionally see the pin settle on the spot I wanted to hit while I was concentrating too much on the target with my left eye. The brain normally selects the better image from the two offered it by your eyes and does so automatically and smoothly, but it can get confused once in a while. Seemed like I had it happen more often in dappled sunlight and at ranges around thirty yards. It was a hard one to diagnose correctly, but after I finally figured it out, the obvious fix was to close the left eye as I came to final aim. Just took a short while to make that a habit, and the weird miss never happened again.

I prefer the aiming eye to have the sharp focus on the pin, about thirty inches from my eye, as the target will only be slightly fuzzy, while the pin will be very much more affected by the eye being focused on the target thirty yards away.

Readers are normally selected to provide sharp focus at about sixteen to eighteen inches from the eye, which is good for reading the paper, but can result in fuzzy pins that disappear in the dusk.

You might find that a set of readers with a little less correction for close distance would give you the best compromise. Good thing about them, the $3 ones at the supermarket are decent, so you can try couple different powers and get a good idea of what works best for you before spending more. Since you already wear contacts at times, you'll find it easier than most to get the best combination, and if you want to go with the "monovision" method like I did (one eye for distance, the other for the 30" focal distance) the cost is only getting a scrip for the shorter focal distance for the contacts you'll be wearing to hunt or shoot.

I liked the combination so well that I used them most of the time. Found it handier than carrying readers when shopping, as I could read the labels and ingredients and such without putting readers on and still read those signs at the far ends of the aisles telling me where the coffee or the soups were.