Offset scope for vision problems

[velocette]

The vision in my right eye has faded. A fellow shooter at my club helped me by making a plate out of 1/4" aluminum plate to offset the scope on my Anschutz 1413.
It works quite well. Normal Smallbore competition is at 50 yards, 50 meters and 100 yards.
With the scope turrets zero'd at 50 yards, my windage compensation is 0.5 moa right (+/-) and at 100 yards 1.5 moa (+/-) elevation is unchanged from original mounts. Still shooting master level smallbore prone scores. (99.5% & above)
I have since, changed all of my rifles to offset mounts. Those were done with a combination of 45 degree Pic rail mounts and pic rail risers to gain proper vertical and horizontal positioning. Not pretty to look at but they all work well. Center fire rifles demand loc tite on all screws! Offset scope adjustments for windage are as noted above. For distances beyond 100 yds the offsets are smaller. at 200 yds rt 0.75moa (+-)
Theoretically at 1000 yds the offset needed to compensate for a scope mounted 1.75" left is about 0.25 moa.
Far more than wind drift, etc.

 

[Dave DeLaurant]

A much simpler, less-expensive and reversible choice than a custom cross-eyed stock:

 

[Tommygunn]

Now that last there, that's just bent.

 

[jmr40]

Seems like it would have been a lot easier to shoot lefty.

 

[cfullgraf]

Cool adaptation but as jmr40 said, when cataracts were taking over my left eye, I shot lefty for a while.

It worked fine on the prairie dog fields and off the bench at home. I would have had to put more effort into it to make it work in competition.

Cataract surgery cleared up the issue for me.