NoBite
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Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this problem when using a red dot sight.
I have an astigmatism in both eyes. Not too uncommon, certainly. Been wearing glasses to correct this for nearly 30 years. As we age, our eyes change and so do the prescriptions for the glasses. Well, I have an UltraDot sight on my Ruger Mark II pistol. When I first put it on the Ruger, about 3 years ago, it made a world of difference! The thing became a tack driver for me. Just a blast to shoot and I couldn't get enough of it. Over the past year, though, things have changed.
I kind of got away from the Ruger as 1911-itis infected me. You know how that can happen, I'm sure. Upon picking up the Mark II the other day, I noticed that the once clear red dot is now a tiny cluster of three or four dots! Not at all the one, crisp dot it used to be. Not believing the problem could be anything else but mechanical, I sent the sight back to the dealer for repair. A month later, I received my sight back with some color photos showing the dot to be one, crisp tiny dot - - - the way it should be! And, a little notation telling me that some astigmatisms affect the way people can view red dot sights. In other words, the problem is in my eyes, not the sight and there ain't nothing that can be done about that!
So, I ask you folks for some feedback. Does this story measure up to your experiences? If you have astigmatisms, do you find using red dot sights to be frustrating in this manner?
<I can tell you that my wife, with good eyes, sees only one crisp dot when she looks through the sight.>
Just doesn't seem right that this be the case!
I have an astigmatism in both eyes. Not too uncommon, certainly. Been wearing glasses to correct this for nearly 30 years. As we age, our eyes change and so do the prescriptions for the glasses. Well, I have an UltraDot sight on my Ruger Mark II pistol. When I first put it on the Ruger, about 3 years ago, it made a world of difference! The thing became a tack driver for me. Just a blast to shoot and I couldn't get enough of it. Over the past year, though, things have changed.
I kind of got away from the Ruger as 1911-itis infected me. You know how that can happen, I'm sure. Upon picking up the Mark II the other day, I noticed that the once clear red dot is now a tiny cluster of three or four dots! Not at all the one, crisp dot it used to be. Not believing the problem could be anything else but mechanical, I sent the sight back to the dealer for repair. A month later, I received my sight back with some color photos showing the dot to be one, crisp tiny dot - - - the way it should be! And, a little notation telling me that some astigmatisms affect the way people can view red dot sights. In other words, the problem is in my eyes, not the sight and there ain't nothing that can be done about that!
So, I ask you folks for some feedback. Does this story measure up to your experiences? If you have astigmatisms, do you find using red dot sights to be frustrating in this manner?
<I can tell you that my wife, with good eyes, sees only one crisp dot when she looks through the sight.>
Just doesn't seem right that this be the case!