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beagle6 posted this 18 July 2024

I went to the range last week for the first time after catarct eye surgery and discovered to my horror that I cannot shoot iron sights any longer. With my glasses on , I can see the sights but not the target. With the glasses off, I can see the target but not the sights.I have a Savage Model  23 in 25/20 that is a sweetheart and my pride and joy and I guess it is time to put a scope on it. I would like to use a side mount and I have heard that the Weaver #2 is the right mount.. If you {all} have done this, I would like to hear all about it, mount, rings, etc.THANKS

beagle6

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Ken Campbell Iowa posted this 18 July 2024

if you want to fight momma nature a little longer, you could try a peep sight ...   i am about where you are with open ..... barrel .... sights ...  especially trying is my m38 swede with teensy v-notch rear.

but a friend has a couple m94 with Marble peeps ... and a Taurus 63 with Lyman tang peep ... i can use these really well .. 

you could rig a test peep by just folding a piece of black cardboard 90 degrees and poking a peep hole in the standup side.... fingernail polish glue it on your receiver. 

i don't have myself a peep gun but still have a soft spot for the looks of a nice peep gun ..  my first high power as a kid was a Win. 43 in 218 Bee with a Lyman 57A peep ...  such a cutie ...  oh wait !! .. i do have a Win. 54 action with the correct Williams peep sight ... dang I gotta get that back together ..

 

 

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Tom Acheson posted this 18 July 2024

For our CBA Military matches I used a Springfield 1903A3. The rear sight is a peep. I sold that gun but still have a 1903 with the goofy ladder rear sight. I often forget….do I use the small hole or the notch? And when I decide and shoot, that rear sight is crappy compared to the A3!

Tom

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Wm Cook posted this 18 July 2024

I would hate to see your Savage mocked up with a scope.  Kind of goes against my conscience.  I'd do my darnedest to put a receiver sight on it.  But like Ken said, try to find a way to see if a receiver sight would work. 

I think the the Savage has that dove tail front sight and if you dig around enough you can find a front sight that'll be the right height for a rear sight that'll look clean and proper.  Going with receiver sights on both ends works for me.  With glasses on I can't see my sights but can see distance.  The near sight doesn't have to be fancy.  I've shot mine with no front sight inserts just to see better.  It works for plinking distances.  My first thought is to see if there is anything available from Skinner that might work for you.  The round receiver might be a problem.  Good luck though, sounds like a worthy project.  Bill C.

 

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linoww posted this 18 July 2024

scope it if it helps you enjoy it.Who cares if it ruins collector value for the next guy.

 

 

 

"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 19 July 2024

I have a Weaver side mount that is marked T2, for a 3/4” diameter scope. Yours for the price of flat rate shipping.

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DanLH posted this 19 July 2024

Get a Merit eye disc or whatever the official term is. It is a variable aperture that fits on your glasses with a suction cup. It makes using the iron military issue sights work for my 88 year old eyes. It worked good enough in June for me to win the Big Bore class with a Swiss Vetterli. To give a test before buying one, use a black target paster with a pin hole in it on your glasses, you will have to fiddle around a bit to get the pin hole lined up correctly.

Dan

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RicinYakima posted this 19 July 2024

When you have your new glasses made, consider having Varilux type lens in your shooting eye side. Top half is distance and gradually becomes reading glasses at the bottom. You just have to tilt your head back for perfect vision of both. Your professional glasses person can help you out. Costco and cheapy places will not help you out. FWIW

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Ed Harris posted this 19 July 2024

What Ric said!

I was lucky because my eye doc was Distinguished, President's Hundred and All-Navy pistol team, so he knew exactly what to do. When I had laser-assisted cataract surgery in my shooting eye he implanted an inter-occular lens with intermediate focus so that front sight is sharp without further correction. Ivsee iron sights like a 20-year-old and can read the Wall Street Journal in good light without reading glasses. My glasses have closeup correction in the lower field for reading micrometers and gages and some distance correction in the upper field to read the number boards on the rifle range so that I don't cross-fire. Left eye implant is optimized for distance. Brain sorts everything out for binocular vision. Glasses have progressive correction for left eye atvcloser distances.

73 de KE4SKY In Home Mix We Trust From the Home of Ed's Red in "Almost Heaven" West Virginia

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trapdoor4570 posted this 19 July 2024

I concur with DanLH.   I had lens implants 24 years ago.  Growing up in Florida I had to get it done at 50.  For me I would have had to use scopes only.  Bought a Merit with the suction cup, it was like I had 20 year old eyes.  I don’t know if we are allowed to post the address, BUT Google - merit optical attachment.  They are well worth the money.  I have used mine for over 23 years and finally will have to order a new rubber suction cup.

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