Do you have unusually good eyesight?

I used to. I had at least 20/10. I could read street signs from about 2 blocks away.

Never really thought about it much other than I was glad I could see well. I’m 68 now and those days are gone.

I have 20/13 or 20/15, so I can see pretty good, but it doesn't seem to really affect my shooting. I can more easily read tiny stampings on cartridges and can easily read serial numbers, but I think my long range vision is more average, as it is hard for me to clearly see and aim at 8.5"x11" targets past 25yrds. More practice would help. Finally starting to warm up but got so many projects to work on all the time....

Not any more!

I never understood why people shot with a 6:00 hold - or "pumpkin on a post." I mean, just put the front sight -exactly- in the middle of the 1" dot at 100 yards and shoot...why complicate it?

Now, I have issues focusing on both at once, and I can't clearly distinguish a 3" black spot at 100 yards. I miss being able to shift focus near to far instantly, and see shotgun shells clearly at 100 yards.

Now, it's put the front sight at the bottom of the blob and hope for the best.

I'd like to know what's like too.

I've had glasses since the second grade so I dont dont anything about precision eyesight.

Not naturally. But when I moved about 12 years ago, I changed eye doctors. I only moved about 30 minutes away, still go to my old dentist. But the new eye doc and I communicate pretty good, and she takes the time to get it right. And to make sure I’m happy. But every year for my checkup, I’ll end up in the 20/13 to 20/15 range with my contacts.

I used to do a lot of shotgun shooting. Skeet, sporting clays, and wing shooting dove and ducks. But I saw a huge improvement in my shooting with the new eye doctor. Further proof, if you can’t see it, you can’t shoot it.

Wyman

I am (or at least used to be) slightly near sighted. My wife has amazing vision and can spot deer half a mile away. I spot tree stumps and think they're deer. When I point out a shape in a distant tree, that looks like it might be a bird, she can tell me exactly what it is.

But my real issue is floaters. I've had them since my teens if not younger. My non-dominant eye has a big enough one that it causes a blurred patch in my vision that drifts around. I notice it most when reading. It's probably why I'm so left eye dominant.

I did... it was redicouly good until I hit 35... then it started fading fast. It tried lasik 13 years ago and it worked for a bit, but I lost depth perception on fly balls in the outfield and had to give up playing softball.

I’m back to glasses for distance and to read at night, but not for computer screen or daytime reading at work.

It is affecting me at the range, as nothing seems clear when I’m using my distance glasses .

Stay safe!

Lucky folks. I'm 27, blind as a bat and got astigmatism. Like 20/60 vision LOL. Can't wait to see what the future brings .....or maybe I wont!

I have only had sight in my right eye since I was 2 years old. I had to get corrective lenses for my good eye when I entered school and have worn them since. However, I have always been considered a pretty good marksman which I attribute to not having to try to block out the vision reaching my brain from the offhand eye and very good eye doctors. I will be 65 in a few months and can still hit a 12 oz soda can from 100 yards with open sights with most of my modern, WWI and WWII rifles. I still cannot hit a gallon milk filled with water at 50 yards with my Brown Bess though.......

About 30 years ago, I had a conversation with a WW2 Japanese pilot. He CLAIMED that there were a few guys with vision so good that they could see some stars in the sky during the daytime.

I'm in my early 60s now, and still have really good close up vision - I mean REALLY good. My distance vision is crummy and has been most of my life.

I had 20/15 vision for about the first forty years of my life. Was a pretty decent hitter and above average defensive center-fielder playing organized baseball to age 19 (and city league softball into my 40s) and I had a damn good jump-shot in HS basketball.

Had no problem shooting expert from the get-go with the tiny sights on our issue 1911s in the military -- I had no idea they were so deficient until I started buying higher-end production pistols much later on with the types of sights we've become accustomed to. Also shot expert with the M-14 iron sights, even though I'd never used aperture sights growing up, just open sighted Model 94s and scopes on bolt guns.

My last military deployment in '04-'05, one night realized I couldn't read the print on the same paperback novel I'd been reading just the night before ... that's when I went to low-powered readers and about the same time found out I couldn't see handgun sights clearly. Few years later was having issues driving at night, all the tail-lights were fuzzy red blurs. Now wearing progressive lenses and shooting handguns with cheap reading glasses and all rifles with either red dots or scopes.

When you're born with great eyesight, you take it for granted until it starts going. I sure miss it. This thread made me take out my old GI 1911 and look at the sights -- no way can I shoot effectively with sights like that these days.

Yeah, my vision used to be fantastic...I went into the eye doctor shortly after graduating college, as my distance vision seemed to be getting fuzzy. He said I had degraded from 20/10 to 20/15. It got a bit better after I stopped staring at books and computer screens for a while. Now...20 years later, I'm noticing I'm not able to read signs as far away as I used to be able to...doc says I'm down to 20/20.

Yep, used to have 20/15, used to.

Up until I was 45 my eyesight was great and I had excellent night vision. Time takes a toll. I'm now far sighted but even that has deteriorated. Progressive lenses have helped some but not completely. Oh well, getting older does beat the alternative.

Once upon a time....miss that eyesight. Thought scopes were a waste of money. Why look through a tube. Sure, it’s closer, but how does that help anything? Shot expert every single time I went to the range regardless of weapon used. Couldn’t understand why everyone put holes all over the target. Why not just put’em in the center? Then in my mid 40’s I started to understand. Had to actually make an effort to focus on front sight. Groups starting opening up. Gone we’re the days of focusing anywhere between the front sight and target that I wanted. Could focus back and forth and anywhere in between fast enough to almost make the sights and target appear in focus. Now, the back sight? Forget about it. Front sight? Maybe a little on a long rifle. Target? Still see it well but then the sights totally disappear.

As a kid it was great fun to try and shoot wasp in flight with a BB gun. Now a days, every rifle I have has a scope on it. Meh...is what it is.

I always had keen eyesight and was even called a liar for for it one time when I said something at work about a radio tower over at the edge of the horizon because the guy that called me that couldn't see it. I never knew my eyesight rating because I never went to an optometrist until I was over 50 and my arms weren't long enough to read with out difficulty. I'm 81 now and my appoint for an eye exam late last year garnered me the knowledge that I have 20/25 uncorrected eyesight now. It's a far cry from my young years.

I have gunsmith's vision, not rifleman's vision. I can read the fine print on a new $20 bill, but buying my first two M1 Garands pushed me into contacts so I could make out a 3" bull at 100 yards.

I have a pretty substantial astigmatism, which I suspect impacts my use of peep and RDS a bit even with correction.

I did until I turned 42 and got my first set of glasses----now its on the rapid decline(getting old sucks).

I still shoot pistols better without my glasses---but reading the fine print on a microwave dinner or making out fine details past 300yds---those days are long gone. No problem with Interstate signs but a deer in the woods is hard unless they move.

Bifocals, enough said.
I really can't shoot iron sights anymore.
Red dots are a little iffy, but, I'm really good with magnified optics.
1-4 on short range rifles and up to 16x on my precision rifles.

I had lasik like 23 years was great, but eyes tend to modify size as we get older so reading glasses now and just a little correction.
Sometimes we may have exceptional good vision depending on daylight and rest, at least for me.
Cloudy days or at dusk I hate my leftover vision.
Get older sucks (59,) we get wiser but no tools to use it.

The lenses in my eyes seemed to have had a bit more focal range than any of my friends/family. I could read smaller print and see more detail at distances ... and I could garner more detail in a quick glance than most.

Because of this I always really enjoyed shooting over irons and eschewed glassing any of my longguns. Being able to see long-range detail and reliably hit those targets brought me great satisfaction.

I don't recall ever thinking about the possibility of losing that great eyesight ...

... until, as I entered my fourth decade, presbyopia began chewing on it. <sigh>

About a decade(?) ago I read about some testing that involved painting single-digit numbers on baseballs and then determining if a batter could actually read the number as it was pitched at him. That intrigued me.

I am pretty sure that if I could step into a time machine, go back ~40 years and take such a test, I would not only be knocking those balls far into the out field but I would be able to call out each number as I did it. I was also blessed with being a Natural Bat ... but only a so-so fielder.

Yeah ... I miss that eyesight. It was one of the first things to go for me. Life.