Old Eyes

[Nulle]

I have been hearing this works good in some cases.

[Dan Morris]

Nulle, I take Occuvite....this has worked wonders for me!
Dan

[Rapier]

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

Ain't it grand?

I had the lasik surgery done 9 years ago, in both eyes at the same time. I was legaly blind at the time of surgery and all of my guns had a scope or optical sight of some kind.

Six weeks after surgery I shot an International score in silhouette with Iron sights, without sight settings. It had been so long since I shot an iron sighted gun, I lost my sight settings. Today I shoot in the 90s at clays and can easily shoot 1 inch groups with my 458 Lott at 100 meters (just in case some were wondering about the flap issue) with express sights. Handguns with open sights are a snap. I have 15/20 vision in my shooting eye.

The only folks I have ever heard talk in a negative way about the surgery were people who have not had it done and have no real understanding of what is involved. The surgery has, within the past 12 months, been approved for pilots, both civilian and military.

I wrote a published article about the surgery, which some of you may have seen. Lasik, unlike all of the prior eye corrective surgeries can be corrected if an error is made and is quick to heal. Basicly, the process involves 3-D images of the eye being made by a digital camera attached to a computer. The "off" areas of the eye are mapped, a firing solution is made by the computer based on the surface maps. A flap is cut to expose the cornea. The laser, attached to the computer, then reshapes the cornea surface to the exact demensions needed to give 20/20 to 15/20 vision in your eye. The actual "cutting" by the laser takes about 15 seconds.

If you are thinking about it, just go see a doctor that does a thousand or more prochedures a year. Your % of a good outcome, first time, are increased.
Ed

[shooterjon]

I hear ya,I have had cataracts removed and Crystal lenses implanted.All this 9 mos ago and my vision is worse today than it was with Cataracts.For this blurry vision honor I had to give the Doc $10,000.00 OUCH.Looks like 2 more surgery's to get the eyes seeing correctly.OH WELL,I'm not the happiest camper in town!all this surgery so I wouldn't have to wear glasses.HMMMMM?

[Rapier]

Shooterjon,
I know you understand that what you had done, cornea replacement, is not lasik surgery.

I have never quite understood why they can reshape the existing cornea perfectly and can not get a replacement artificial cornea shaped correctly out of the box. It would seem that the two prochedures would have the same result. But, I have heard a good many complaints exactly like yours. I just hope the pending correction works for you, sight is a very precious comodity.

Best of luck.
Ed

[Brithunter]

Hi all,

For shooting I use single prescrption lenses but normal wear I use varifocals. the work great for driving but I still find I tend to remove them for reading and using the computer. The varifocals are a nightmare for using scopes and binos as the distance viewing area of the glasses seems to be so small, this is not a problem in normaly use, but with scopes and binos you really need to get your eye in the right place hence I had as et of single vision specs made up and use them with the binos and scopes.

[MtnMike2]

I'll add my woe to this discussion. Was using a Win 1886 w/ buckhorn sights this year and shot over a deer from a tree stand at about 60 - 70 yds (fortunately it was a clean miss - no blood found on snow). I grew up w/ iron sights and like the lean look of rifles, especially old models, w/ the iron sights. But, as I get older (I'm 57) I guess I better use a scope if I want to make clean kills... damn. BTW, I wear trifocal (varifocus) glasses too.

Mike

[Nulle]

So far I am getting along with the old peepers although they are weaker then a few years back to be sure. Hitting so darn close to 62 years I can spit on it I have been pretty darn lucky the way I have abused my body.

[popplecop]

Nulle, just went to the Optomologist and passed again, no change. Even though I've got the start of catarcts they aren't a problem. Anyway how are you doing?

[Rapier]

Tomorrow I go see the eye surgeon that did my Lasic operations. I saw him three months ago and now at "going on" 65 we have cataracts. I guess they can make great progress but no one or nothing can stop the aging process.

After 10 years and diabetes my vision has declined from 15/20 down to 30 or 40/20 depending on the day and how my sugar is doing. I passed my drivers eye exam two weeks ago without glasses, so not so bad. But nights are starting to bother a bit, with the oncoming headlights being a fair blast of light. I guess that is the cataracts refracting the light.
Ed

[wrenchman]

I bought my in line muzzle loader becouse i started haveing a hard time seeing my front blade in low light.
MY son loves the side lock so all is still good i gess.

[popplecop]

I put a fiber optic on the front and a peep on the rear of my percussion hunting rifle, I too like that big old hammer.

[Rapier]

What I used in competition for several years was an old Gilmore red dot with a 2.5x lense that screwed onto the front. They stopped making the lense but every now and then one pops up for sale. The Gilmore has a 2 MOA dot in it for rifles. Now Gilmore is Gilmore Leupold or Vis Versa as Leupold bought them out. I still have two of the sights, bought the last one while walking around a gun show. A guy had come in and walked all over the show trying to sell it and no one at that show knew what a Gilmore was, he about fell out when I said what do you want for that Gilmore as he walked by, so I bought it cheap.

They are great foe a coal burner.
Ed

[buckhunter]

I had a pocket full of cash and was all set to lay it down on a mil spec 1911-A1. Held it up look down the barrel and handed it back. That tiny front site just didn't cut it. Oh well gotta find something else.

[Rapier]

You might try .50 reading glasses if you are still using the naked eye. They allow you to see the sights and the target out to 200 yards or so. I use them to shoot with iron sights now. You can order them on the net.
Ed