[sonny]

40's and still 20/20:D

[444]

My eyesight affected my shooting from the beginning, but I didn't know it.
I finally went to an eye doctor about five years ago and got glasses.
I am right handed and shot with my left eye but never knew why until I saw the eye doctor.

[Stickjockey]

got my first pair of glasses when I was 2. It's affected my shooting most all of my life.

[Ladybug]

14

[makdaddy03]

Mine started going bad and affecting my shooting about age 33. Has been going down hill ever since.

[Dave R]

My eyes are awful (like 20/300) but with corrective lenses, I am shooting better than I ever have. I'm in my late 40's.

As long as you can see the front sight clearly...

[Mike Irwin]

I've worn glasses since the 4th grade.

I've had terrible astigmatism in my right eye since about that time, so I'd have to say from pretty much the very beginning.

[MeekandMild]

10

[happy old sailor]

at about 60. just shy of 72 now and tis tough. red dots are a blessing.

can still shoot normally, but, it takes a minute to get everything focused and in alignment. only the target is clear enough. short range vision has gone down the road.

keep saying i'm gonna check on some tri-focals, haven't done it yet.

[bfox]

I am 44
Been having trouble with my left eye.
Went to a specialist and have cataracts.
Working for a school district for 2 years
as a sub.
No insurance till I get hired full time.
Had insurance for years and never needed it.

[voilsb]

my eyesight's affected my shooting from the beginning. I mean, imagine how hard it would be to aim if I didn't have my eyesight!

seriously, though, my vision's 20/25 in my right eye and 20/35 in my left eye. enough that glasses make images sharper, but for 99% of applications are unnecessary. I typically shoot without glasses.

[Lennyjoe]

At birth.:D

At least thats my excuse.

Actually, I am right handed and left eye dominant since I can remember. Never did have good vision in my right eye.

Learned how to shoot left handed.

Maybe Lasic (sp) would help. :(

[JeFF D]

I was never really good with open sights and couldnt understand how anyone could shoot at even 100yds with them, until I got glasses wow what a difference!
So...15 when i got glasses but my eyes were bad before that too.

[Greg L]

Well seeing as how my accuracy is in the "broad side of a barn" catagory it is used more as an excuse :D .

I've had glasses since the 5th grade so eyesight has never really factored into the shooting question (unless someone takes my glasses in which case behind cover is your best bet as I won't be able to see which way is downrange :D ).

Greg

[Waitone]

I don't remember.

[foghornl]

Just like Greg L....Been "4-eyed" since the 5th grade....although now, since I have 'bi-focuses' maybe I'm 8-eyed ? ? ? ?

[Quantrill]

Right handed and left eyed (called cross dominance I believe) since childhood. At the age of 7, I shot competition with a patch over my left eye (ala Blackbeard the Pirate). It did not work and to this day, 51 years later, I shoot rifles and shotguns left handed and pistols right handed with a definite tilt to my head (in order ot use my left dominant eye. Quantrill

[Litlman]

Since birth. I am like LennyJoe. Right handed and shoot lefty. Had to get used to all the right handed safetys on my shot guns when I was young. No prob. now.

[Nightfall]

For a couple years when I first began shooting, I never even realized my eye sight was going bad. It happened so slowly for me that I never thought to check if I needed glasses. Well, not too long after I began shooting, I was old enough for my learners permit. Going 60 miles an hour with cars similarly coming at you made me suddenly keenly aware that I couldn't see as sharply as I thought I needed to. :D A quick exam and a pair of glasses later, it's amazing how much easier it is to shoot when you can actually see the target rather than a vaguely shaped blur!

P.S. Just because I can see the target now doesn't mean I can hit it any better. :D

[Byron Quick]

Late twenties. Until then, I had 20/10 vision...suddenly things got blurry and I could not see even blurs on signs at distances where I once read the signs. Went to the opthamologist and he says,"You're 20/20!" I say,"But I can't see as I should!"

Gradually getting worse. 20/25 in right eye...20/30 in the left.

[Monkeyleg]

I was actually a pretty good shot with open sights up until about age 40 or so. Then, in 1995 I started doing hours and hours of work on the computer, and that made it worse.

Fortunately the combination of reading glasses and a Merit disc makes up for some of the deterioration when shooting.

[Standing Wolf]

Ten. I was ten years old the first time I shot a gun. I've been wearing glasses since the age of three. My aging sight really began to wreak havoc with my accuracy about the age of forty.

[dsgrntldPW]

1st glasses in 5th grade. Started shooting @ 19. No real problems, even after going into bifocals in my mid-20's. At 39 I decided to have the RK surgery. Worked great for about 4 years, then I started having problems with reading and focusing at arms length. Had trouble picking up sights. Went back to bifocals again. Now my distance vision is taking a dump. Guess I'll be in trifocals next.

Really affects my desire to shoot anymore. Just don't seem to enjoy it too much right now. It's more like work trying to keep the skills up. Oh well, we'll see what happens after the next visit to the opthamologist.

[Black_Talon]

I've always worn glasses for nearsightedness but in my mid-late thirties the sights started getting blurry too. Had to get bifocals and now everything's just peachy.

[pyrguy]

4th grade here.
Now I'm in no-lines. Can't nod my head fast enough. Red dots and scopes are the way to go. Just might have to try express sights next.

[Walkalong]

47. I guess I should not fuss. had GREAT eyesight for a long time. The Doc says I still have 20/20. but my eyesight stinks compared to what it used to be. The "over 40" bug bit me at 47 and so I see blurry sights!!!!!!!!!!!
I must use 1.25 dimestore glasses to read. 1.5 if up real close.

I wish there was some sort of lasics to cure the "over 40" "arms are too short" problem. Any new breakthroughs??

[redneckrepairs]

I went from no glasses to bifocals on my 40th birthday , so a while before that . I am still learning to deal with the glasses years later , if the light is wrong i will whip them off , but then my eyes have to adjust to no correction .

[Charshooter]

I was near=sighted when young and it was quite humiliating, but I wore contacts for years. Then finally had laser surgery, the best dollars I have ever spent. I still use practice eye protection, but not when hunting.

[M2 Carbine]

I think it was about in my late forties.

Not too many years after I started needing reading glasses I needed a second lens to see the helicopter instruments clearly.

It makes the passengers nervous when you ask the front seat passenger, "What is the reading on that gage?:D

My trifocals (center) lens is focused at about 40 inches, so it's good for the gun sights. Pretty much like normal eyesight. Fuzzy target, little fuzzy back sight and sharp front sight.

[byf43]

Late twenties. Until then, I had 20/10 vision...suddenly things got blurry and I could not see even blurs on signs at distances where I once read the signs. Went to the opthamologist and he says,"You're 20/20!" I say,"But I can't see as I should!"

Gradually getting worse. 20/25 in right eye...20/30 in the left.



I'll be 53 in a couple of weeks.
I had 20/15 in each eye until about age 42.
I have always preferred shooting with open sights.

I noticed that I couldn't focus close up, when putting in some new kitchen cabinets.

Four years later, my then 4 year old son, scratched my right eye while we were playing. (Glasses were on the kitchen table!!!)

My opthamologist says that the scratch has healed to be something like a cataract.

Now, glasses and scopes.

Otherwise, it's like a grand older guy at my sportsman's club. He says, "Put one blur onto the other blur and squeeze the trigger."

[Mark Whiteman]

Just like some danged eagle-eye to pose a question like this. Glasses since 8yo, but shooting was fine until about 40, when bifocals came into the picture. I have since looked upon putting glass on a rifle with more enthusiasm.

[grimjaw]

28/29, although I wasn't doing any shooting until after that. Too many computer screens for too long.

jm

[VARifleman]

I had glasses before shooting, but with my contacts now I'm at around 20/15 in both eyes. Once I get a little older I'll probably get laser eye surgury.

[BobMcG]

Toward the end of my forties. :(

[glockman19]

Started wearing glases @ 20 am in my mid 40's. I read another thread where lasic/wavefront laser eye surgery is recommended by many. I will be getting the laser eye surgery in the next 6-8 weeks.

[10-Ring]

I've had bad eyes since birth as a result of some careless doctoring :rolleyes: So, my shooting has been affected since the beginning :o

[rugerman]

Almost 56 now eyesight is fine (so far) its this #$%^&* artritis in my hands & feet that is giving me a hard time. Sometimes it hurts just to hold a gun much less shoot one. I really miss shooting my big pistols but they hurt too much now.

[MJZZZ]

48 for me and it stinks. Mike Z

[LHB1]

I've had to wear glasses for a long time but three years ago at 65, the optical experts said they could no longer correct my right (shooting) eye to 20/20. The pistol sights started getting really fuzzy with multiple images so about a year ago I started using my left eye for aiming. Works pretty good for pistols but I probably look funny with my head cocked over to the right, using my left eye. For rifles and shotguns I just have to deal with diminishing sight in the right eye.

Good shooting and be safe.
LB

[22-rimfire]

I've worn glasses since puberty. I notice I shoot better after I get a perscription change. That is no big surprise. I actually noticed more issues with eye sight with photgraphy prior to auto focus lenses. I wasted a lot of film as I am very picky about image sharpness. Even with auto focus lenses, I still often shoot in manual mode.

Barring other problems, most people notice changes in the mid-40's. When you can't read the printing on a map or see the date on a penny, it is time for some changes.

[zedheadmc]

Last year at the age of 43. Just wearing reading glasses for now. And am using apeture sights on my long guns/ shotguns now too.

[hso]

Last year.

Switched to point shooting for handgun and taking a point shooting rifle course this spring.

[joab]

Early forties seems to be common
mine started about 42 or so and have quickly deteriorated to the point that I can't read without glasses

At 18 I could see and hit a snake in the head at 125 yards

At 25 I could see an ant well enough to ID at over six feet. Sometimes the identifying feature is the number of clubs on a 1/8 inch long ant's antennae

Now I wouldn't even see the ant or a snake

[oneslowgun]

38. I wore glasses for a long time before that, but at 39, my doctor noted that my eyes were getting worse.

[MD_Willington]

18, before that I had almost no noticeable Astigmatism.. now it is noticeable and I pretty much don't like it one bit..

ah... genetics.. my uncle has Astigmatism too

[Byron Quick]

29. I had 20/10 vision until then and when it dropped to 20/20, I thought I was going blind. 20/30 now.

[RCouch]

No trouble until I was about 68 - 70, then I started developing cataracts. I'm 78 now and waiting for surgery. Expect things will improve after that.

[Hokkmike]

50-ish

[Yakko]

I shoot iron sights, 400 yard targets started to get fuzzy at 36. So I started getting bigger targets. :D

[Feanaro]

I hadn't even started yet. :uhoh:

I've worn glasses since I was 12, at least. I ain't Velma(good think too, I hate "jinkies"), I can see without them... as long as I don't need to see real good. :D

[mpmarty]

I wear 1.25 reading glasses but other than that, I see fine. I'm 68yrs old and shoot iron sights at any distance I want as my distance vision is great but the rear sights are a bit fuzzy so I put dipoter rear sights on my rifles.

[craig]

i had to start wearing 1.25 reading glasses at 44.

now i'm 47 and wear 1.5's to read and the front sight on some pistols is getting hard to see if it's not a red, white, or orange sight.

i figure i'll have to wear glasses constantly in a year or two.:cuss:

[sansone]

ditto craig's post exactly:eek: