Old Eyes

buckhunter · #1 07-02-2003, 09:55 AM

Well it finally happened. I took my last unscoped rife to the range yesterday just to check out the "0" and see how it was doing. Darn the sights and target was awful fuzzy. Well that one now wears a scope. Oh well Mother Nature is catching up.

Nulle · #2 07-02-2003, 12:25 PM

Welcome to the club old friend

fabsroman · #3 07-02-2003, 03:23 PM

Can you guys use glasses on open sights? I know my dad has one hell of a time shooting shotguns with glasses on, but he also has one hell of a time shooting with his glasses off.

Jack · #4 07-02-2003, 03:49 PM

Happens to us all, eventually.
Fabs, on the glasses, maybe, but, when you get to the bifocal stage, it gets difficult. Often, if your head position is correct for getting your cheek on the stock, it is incorrect for your bifocals.
And, with or without glasses, the ability of the eye to accomodate lessens with age. Accomodation is the ability of the eye to rapidly change focus from the rear sight to the front sight to the target, and back again. When you're young, your eyes can do that so fast, your brain is fooled into thinking that all the sights are in focus at the same time.
With age, you lose that ability.

Nulle · #5 07-03-2003, 12:22 AM

ahhh Well I have the bifocal thing and can't see (pardon the pun) where it has effected my shotgun or pistol shooting at all.

buckhunter · #6 07-03-2003, 01:23 AM

So far the pistol is just as bad as ever

well almost. It really hasn't effected it much. As for the Shotgun it is OK also. Its just those darn iron sighted rifles.

popplecop · #7 07-03-2003, 10:18 AM

Open sights on rifles are a thing of the past for me. Receiver sights work ok, have them on all my lever actions, scopes on everything else. I still shoot handguns with normal sights, but I use no line bi focals. I realize they aren't for everyone but if you can use them they do wonders in handgun shooting. Just have to tilt my head slightly and the front sight becomes clear.

Jack · #8 07-03-2003, 11:50 AM

Reciever (peep) sights help a lot on a rifle, IME. One less sight you have to try to keep in focus.
I have no line bifocals, too, and where I run into problems is with handgun sights. I have to tip my head quite a ways back to see thru the proper part of the lens to focus on the sights.

DogYeller · #9 07-03-2003, 12:56 PM

At about age 40 I began to notice the rear sight was getting fuzzy. I had my eyes checked and found out I had astigmatism. Glasses fixed it for a while but the older I got the worse it got. Funny thing was it didn't bother my pistol shooting. So, one day I got the Idea to move the rear sight forward on one of my muzzleloaders. About 10" was enough at the time. I've had to move it two more times. Now I have a 36" barrel with about 20" between the front and the rear sights. I've put Lyman peeps on the other rifles.

Cal Sibley · #10 07-04-2003, 07:04 PM

I do the majority of my shooting at the rifle range. When I think that I'm looking through my eyeglasses, then through a pair of yellow safety glasses, and through the scope lens, it's a bloody wonder that I ever hit anything. Best wishes.

Cal - Montreal

topturretgunne · #11 07-09-2003, 12:07 PM

I use for pistol---A jewelers loupe that fastens to your glasses with a lense to fit your eye--I use a 0.75--your local eye Doc can fix you up-- I bought mine from CLEAR SIGHT in Miami --- don't have a address---runs about 40 bucks with 3 lenses and a adjustable arm

dunwerkin · #12 03-04-2005, 09:13 PM

Boy am I lucky.
When i was born, due to a doctror screw up, my parents thought that I would be blind for life. As it turns out, here I am at nearly 70 years of age with only one functional eye, still able to shoot iron sighted rifles or pistols as well as scope sights right along with the best of them.

Never give up.

dunwerkin

BILLY D. · #13 03-04-2005, 10:29 PM

FABS AND CAL

AN ALL THE FLATULENT SENIORS AND OTHER FOLKS WITH EYE PROBLEMS. TWO THINGS I FOUND THAT WORKED FOR ME.

1. TRIFOCALS. VERY HANDY AT THE COMPUTER. THE TOP LENS IS TOO WEAK AND THE BOTTOM LENS YOU HAVE TO KEEP TILTING YOUR HEAD BACK. THIS PHENOMENON CAUSES NECK MUSCLE AND SHOULDER STRAIN. AFTER A SHORT TIME YOU FEEL LIKE SOMEBODY BEAT YA WITH A BALL BAT. YOUR OPTICIAN CAN FIGURE A LENS STRENGTH THAT WILL SOLVE THAT PROBLEM. WHILE YOU ARE TWISTING HIS ARM ABOUT THAT PROBLEM GET HIM TO WRITE A PRESCRIPTION FOR THE MIDDLE LENS AND HAVE A PAIR OF GLASSES MADE JUST FOR THEM. YOU WILL NOW BE ABLE TO SEE YOUR SIGHTS IN THE CORRECT PERIPHERY AND YOUR TARGET WILL BE IN THE PROPER PERSPECTIVE FOR TARGET SHOOTING.

ANOTHER ITEM THAT HELPED ME WAS THE FARSIGHT OPTICAL DISK FROM BROWNELLS. LYMAN ALSO MAKES AN OPTIC AID CALLED THE HAWKEYE SHOOTERS OPTIC AID. BOTH OF THESE PRODUCTS ALLOW YOU TO SHOOT WITH BOTH EYES OPEN, WHICH IS THE PROPER WAY TO SHOOT BY THE WAY. WHAT THEY ACCOMPLISH IS NOT LETTING ONE EYE TAKE OVER FOR THE OTHER. IE: IF ONE EYE IS STRONGER THAN THE IT WILL TRY TO MAKE UP FOR THE INADEQUACY OF THE WEAK EYE. THE HUMAN BODY NEVER CEASES TO AMAZE ME.

NO I AM NOT AN OPTICIAN NOR A DOCTOR, I'M JUST AN OLD GUY THATS PUSHING 70 THAT KEPT BOTHERING THE PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED PEOPLE UNTIL I GOT ANSWERS TO MY PROBLEMS.

HOPE YOU ALL WERE ABLE TO GLEAN SOMETHING FROM THIS. SOMETIMES I DON'T DO WELL IN EXPLAINING THINGS IN TECHNICAL TERMS.

Cal Sibley · #14 08-03-2005, 07:49 PM

I'm left handed and shoot from the left side so my left eye is very important to me. I've noticed in recent years the left eye is definitely the weaker of the two. I see no where near as good with the left eye, but am leery of trying to switch sides at 68 years old. Most of my rifles are target or varmint rifles with 6x18 and 6x24 scopes. I can adjust the front eye piece and get the clarity I require for maximum accuracy. I don't know how long I'll be able to do this, being diabetic, but so far so good. Best wishes.

Cal - Montreal

squirrelman · #15 09-02-2007, 03:19 PM

I had lasik eye operation done 1.5 yesrs ago. It was the answer to my shooting problems. Shoot iron sighted rifles ok now.