Eyeballs, Pistols and Age

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linoww posted this 24 December 2024

This last year I went to progressive lenses and it's been wonderful for about everything but shooting pistols. I can shoot my Sharps and Stevens with tang sides just perfectly and even open site lever actions. But with short sight radius pistols I just can never seem to get the site picture consistently even close to clear. It's like the triple fuzz ball effect.What will happen is all the sudden the site picture looks beautiful but then it goes away. It seems to be a very narrow spot that I can see how I want to..It makes it extremely frustrating when i'm trying to work up accuracy loads. Just wondering if any of you fellows have done anything different with your prescriptions to be able to see pistol sights. Many years ago a local guy used to grind our correction to a particular spot in our lens .But he passed away and I can't find anybody locally that will do it. Or maybe I just need to have my intermediate correction ground on the glasses rather than the progressive script.

Ideas.......?

"if it was easy we'd let women do it" don't tell my wife I said that!

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Boschloper posted this 16 February 2025

Ken: Google “one ragged hole sight”. They make a blade that replaces the rear sight blade on adjustable sight Rugers. I have been playing with one for about a year. It does seem to work.

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delmarskid posted this 15 February 2025

Ken I mounted a Williams receiver sight on my Contender pistol. I took out the aperture insert to make it a big hole. It seemed to work. I’ve since gone to a scope but the peep was good to 50 yards.

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linoww posted this 13 February 2025

I fought the 92s sights indoors today.The indoor range was an underground icebox but at least dry. I agree much past 7 yards its just guess or by golly with my old 92s with the very low profile sights. With my SW N frame I'm able to see better but not great. I can get in a good group or two before the fuzz monster takes over.

"if it was easy we'd let women do it" don't tell my wife I said that!

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Ken Campbell Iowa posted this 13 February 2025

i always thought that a big hole peep might be a great sight on a pistol ... especially for old eyes such as most ( sigh ) of us here ....

i notice that peeps still give me a great sight picture on rifles, but not open sights.

remember when surplus M1 Carbine peeps were $5 in the wrapper a " few " years ago ... wonder if one would work on my 92S ... probably have to aim real low ... hold for center crotch ...

i gotta try this .... right now the 92S invisible sights make it just a big heavy 7 yard gun ... no fun ... my Russian Makarov has better sights ...

ken

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shjoe posted this 13 February 2025

gary cooper had some good advice when fix'n to do some far off and fancy shootin

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creeker posted this 13 February 2025

For the sixgun, I opened the rear sight until the fuz went away. This worked for me.

Lynn Halstead

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JimmyDee posted this 12 February 2025

At 72, I had my cataracts done and opted for the more flexible lenses not covered by the government insurer we're coerced to use.

It's been wonderful!

Before the surgery, I took note of Bill Wilson's observation that, as we age, the benefit of a a long sight radius diminishes until it becomes a hindrance. For 1911s, he suggested going to Commanders or Officer's ACPs. Based on my experience with IPSC-style irons, he was right. It's true for plastic striker-fired pistols like the S&W M&P 9 vs 9C as well. I have a 1930's era Erma Werks single shot 22LR trainer that features a ladder rear sight that rides a dovetail rail. Sure enough, moving it closer to the front sight helped immensely.

I don't know that sight alignment is markedly better but acquiring good sight picture is much faster.

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oscarflytyer posted this 11 February 2025

Brooksharris - does this optician do this for you as a personal favor? Or are they willing to do it for others? I live in N AL/Huntsville area. Like Rick, I might drive the distance to get that kind of glasses made as well! TIA

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Premod70 posted this 10 February 2025

If shooting irons and using glasses for correction get yourself Knobloch or comparable glasses. No progressive lens can center and stay center through a course of fire. Another plus is the lens are are glass and not as distorted as plastic. Expensive yes but a cheaper way to consistently to hit center is not out there, good luck.

Forrest Gump is my smarter brother.

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Bryan Austin posted this 10 February 2025

At 58 my eyes are steadily getting worse. I started going through the lens corrections but now I am having other problems. I personally think cataracts are beginning to form. My dad just had surgery at 82, so I think my time is coming. In the meantime I focus the best I can and wait until the hazy stuff floats out of the way before pulling the trigger. Sometimes it works, sometimes it don't.

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RicinYakima posted this 10 February 2025

I'd drive two hundred miles for that also!

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brooksharris posted this 10 February 2025

Pardon me ED; I intended to respond to linoww above your post but didn't see a Reply button. I have suggestions for him. First I doubt anyone can have the best possible corrected vision lens for both rifle and pistol. Each discipline will require its own glasses and a talented and patient optician. Second, with handguns you'll not get all 3 elements of sight picture (rear, front, and target) clear. Do your best to obtain a very sharp front sight with an acceptable bullseye or whatever target. I live in middle Tn. but drive 200 miles to Memphis because I've found an OC optician willing to take the time to make bullseye competition with iron sights possible for my 75 year old eyes. Here's how: I take my barrel with sights to her office. She supplies a very small print eye card used to test close vision; i.e., reading lens; and she brings what must be a hundred trial lenses outside the office. As I extend my barrel at an object approx. 50 yds. away she holds the eye chart exactly even with my front sight. A second employee adds various lenses into the trial frames as I isolate the specific lens that provides a sharp focus on the small print and ft. sight and an acceptable target. Next the two of them work in tandem to determine the optical center on the right lens of my shooting glasses. That's the "particular spot".

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linoww posted this 30 December 2024

Remington made some pretty decent standard velocity back then and then about 15 years later they made some powder blue boxes that were damn good.

"if it was easy we'd let women do it" don't tell my wife I said that!

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RicinYakima posted this 30 December 2024

It's not old, only about 1990, just yesterday.

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linoww posted this 30 December 2024

I feel better I'm not the only one Ric. nice shooting with that old ammo as well!

"if it was easy we'd let women do it" don't tell my wife I said that!

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RicinYakima posted this 30 December 2024

Sorry, wrong thread. Move it to the next one down.

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RicinYakima posted this 30 December 2024

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linoww posted this 30 December 2024

Is your 1922 a pistol?

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RicinYakima posted this 30 December 2024

Made me take the Springfield M1922 rifle out today. Not bad for a 100 year old rifle, 90 year old barrel and 80 year old scope. Ten shots at 25 yards with 3/4" red dot.