Sven
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I am very slightly near-sighted... I can see the front sight clearly without aid of glasses, though a target at 200 yards is a fuzzy ball... anyone here ditch their prescription lenses when shooting with irons?
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Slightly Nearsighted - Wear Glasses w/ Iron Sights?
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cracked butt
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I'm in the same boat. I have a pair of prescription glasses with large safety lenses I use for shooting. My wife calls them 'geek glasses' and won't be seen with me in public wearing them, but they help me immensely with shootng. My vision is somewhere around 20/40.
I normally don't wear glasses for any other activity except watching tv or movies.
I normally don't wear glasses for any other activity except watching tv or movies.
I have loust vision (like 20/300 or somthing like that) and wear bifocals (the seamless kind for vanity). I'm lucky and can see both target and front sight, if the sight is at arm's length (which it oughta be, anyway), with my "far" section of my glasses.
Some posters here with bifocals have asked their Optometrist to tune a pair for them to get the frint sight in focus. Those become their shooting glasses, looking like any other pair.
Some posters here with bifocals have asked their Optometrist to tune a pair for them to get the frint sight in focus. Those become their shooting glasses, looking like any other pair.
Steve Smith
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Well, crap.
Wish we'd known this before you had Hook to lap that sight in. Could've had him lap some of these in instead:
http://www.bjonessights.com/SR.html
Well, short of that, consider contacts or having a gun friendly optometrist to work with you AND your rifle.
Now, that being said, us non-corrective lens users only see one thing in focus at a time. The front sight is all that has to be clear.
Wish we'd known this before you had Hook to lap that sight in. Could've had him lap some of these in instead:
http://www.bjonessights.com/SR.html
Well, short of that, consider contacts or having a gun friendly optometrist to work with you AND your rifle.
Now, that being said, us non-corrective lens users only see one thing in focus at a time. The front sight is all that has to be clear.
VG
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It just so happens that if you hold your arm out at full length with your thumb up, it will be where the front sight post would be on many rifles. So even if you'e optometrist doesn't have a clue about shooting. he can tune your 'script.
Swampy
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Guys,
Steve Smith is DEAD ON.....
All you need to be able to focus on is the FRONT SIGHT.
The ability to focus on anything ELSE (INCLUDING the target) is irrelevent (sp?).
Even us old geezers who need bi-focals to read can shoot amazingly well with irons, as long as you have the proper prescription to focus JUST ON THE FRONT SIGHT.
Also, when using different rifles with different sight radii you will need different prescriptions. When I shoot a Garand or M14 my lens is +.5 diopter from my normal distance prescription. When I shoot an AR or AK it's a +.75. Trust me, 1/4 of a diopter may not sound like much, but it makes a WORLD of difference.
BTW, when I wear my shooting prescription, everything off in the distance (again, including the targets) looks fuzzy. That's the way it's supposed to be if you want to shoot irons well.
Best of luck to ya'
Swampy
Garands forever
Steve Smith is DEAD ON.....
All you need to be able to focus on is the FRONT SIGHT.
The ability to focus on anything ELSE (INCLUDING the target) is irrelevent (sp?).
Even us old geezers who need bi-focals to read can shoot amazingly well with irons, as long as you have the proper prescription to focus JUST ON THE FRONT SIGHT.
Also, when using different rifles with different sight radii you will need different prescriptions. When I shoot a Garand or M14 my lens is +.5 diopter from my normal distance prescription. When I shoot an AR or AK it's a +.75. Trust me, 1/4 of a diopter may not sound like much, but it makes a WORLD of difference.
BTW, when I wear my shooting prescription, everything off in the distance (again, including the targets) looks fuzzy. That's the way it's supposed to be if you want to shoot irons well.
Best of luck to ya'
Swampy
Garands forever
Sven
Senior Member
Since I can focus perfectly on the front sight without glasses (as I said in my first post), then I believe there is nothing I need to do, purchase, or install at this time.
Swampy
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Sven,
It sounds like you are a "natural" as far as iron shooting goes.....
Though I'd sure be wearing SOMETHING for eye protection.... you probably are already, but this bears repeating, especially in light of the following story......
I've always been a stickler for eye protectin since I've only had one functioning eyeball since birth, and my precautions in this regard recently saved me from spending the rest of my life with a dog and a white cane.
Two weeks ago I had a 1911 go kaboom on me. First time in my life I've ever had a serious safety problem with a firearm.
Shooting steel plates at about 15 yds when one round goes off I get hit in the face with all kinds of hot gas and s**t, including bits of brass. A couple hit me hard enough in the nose and cheek to embed in the skin and bring blood. No other injury for me except black soot all over my right hand where it came out of every seam and crack between the parts of the pistol.
Blew the left walnut grip panel off, splitting it in two. Mangled the nose of the next bullet in the stack, driving it back into it's case as far as it would go. Drove the follower and 3 rounds to the bottom of the mag and compresseed and de-tempered the spring. It only comes up half way to the top now.
The slide was locked up in the closed position. Had to take it apart with a hammer and blocks of wood when I got home. The fired case was stuck in the chamber. The unsupported section of the .45 case head, immediately above the feed ramp, was blown completely away. The two sides had folded down and blocked the action from opening.
Other than the walnut grip panel and the mag spring there was no other apparent damage to the firearm. Cleaned it up, put it back together and it works fine.
Don't know the cause. Could have been faulty brass. Could have been an over charge on powder. I'll never know.
Oh well.... the moral of the story....
"ALWAYS WEAR EYE PROTECTION WHEN SHOOTING"!!!!
This incident could very easily have taken out my only good eye if I'd not been wearing my glasses.
Best regards to all,
Swampy
It sounds like you are a "natural" as far as iron shooting goes.....
Though I'd sure be wearing SOMETHING for eye protection.... you probably are already, but this bears repeating, especially in light of the following story......
I've always been a stickler for eye protectin since I've only had one functioning eyeball since birth, and my precautions in this regard recently saved me from spending the rest of my life with a dog and a white cane.
Two weeks ago I had a 1911 go kaboom on me. First time in my life I've ever had a serious safety problem with a firearm.
Shooting steel plates at about 15 yds when one round goes off I get hit in the face with all kinds of hot gas and s**t, including bits of brass. A couple hit me hard enough in the nose and cheek to embed in the skin and bring blood. No other injury for me except black soot all over my right hand where it came out of every seam and crack between the parts of the pistol.
Blew the left walnut grip panel off, splitting it in two. Mangled the nose of the next bullet in the stack, driving it back into it's case as far as it would go. Drove the follower and 3 rounds to the bottom of the mag and compresseed and de-tempered the spring. It only comes up half way to the top now.
The slide was locked up in the closed position. Had to take it apart with a hammer and blocks of wood when I got home. The fired case was stuck in the chamber. The unsupported section of the .45 case head, immediately above the feed ramp, was blown completely away. The two sides had folded down and blocked the action from opening.
Other than the walnut grip panel and the mag spring there was no other apparent damage to the firearm. Cleaned it up, put it back together and it works fine.
Don't know the cause. Could have been faulty brass. Could have been an over charge on powder. I'll never know.
Oh well.... the moral of the story....
"ALWAYS WEAR EYE PROTECTION WHEN SHOOTING"!!!!
This incident could very easily have taken out my only good eye if I'd not been wearing my glasses.
Best regards to all,
Swampy
cracked butt
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Scary. I had the exact same scenario happen with my Beretta 92 last year. Didn't need a hammer to get it open, but everything else was pretty much the same. Glasses saved my eyes.
Swampy
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cracked butt,
Funny thing..... It wasn't really scary at the time. It just happened. The report and recoil were not that different from normal. No great pain or shock of any kind..... just a blast of hot gas and bits hit me in the face. Then realized that the left grip panel was gone, then looked at the gun and saw that it was locked up and that my shooting hand was covered in soot.
No adrenaline reaction.... no pain.... just this thought of, "oh s**t. Whatthehell just happened"??? Then the nagging worry all the way home that the Kimber was going to be damaged or totalled.
Did not even think of how I'd saved my eyesight until later. At this stage of the game I'd rather lose a couple fingers than my only good eye.
I got off lucky. I'm fine. The gun is fine. All I lost was a couple bits of skin on my face.
I hope that was my full lifetime ration of kabooms.... I certainly would NOT want to experience it with a long gun. For one thing, the action is right up at your face, for another..... 3 times the chamber pressure.
Best to all,
Swampy
Funny thing..... It wasn't really scary at the time. It just happened. The report and recoil were not that different from normal. No great pain or shock of any kind..... just a blast of hot gas and bits hit me in the face. Then realized that the left grip panel was gone, then looked at the gun and saw that it was locked up and that my shooting hand was covered in soot.
No adrenaline reaction.... no pain.... just this thought of, "oh s**t. Whatthehell just happened"??? Then the nagging worry all the way home that the Kimber was going to be damaged or totalled.
Did not even think of how I'd saved my eyesight until later. At this stage of the game I'd rather lose a couple fingers than my only good eye.
I got off lucky. I'm fine. The gun is fine. All I lost was a couple bits of skin on my face.
I hope that was my full lifetime ration of kabooms.... I certainly would NOT want to experience it with a long gun. For one thing, the action is right up at your face, for another..... 3 times the chamber pressure.
Best to all,
Swampy
I'm near sighted too, about 20/40 and 20/50 in my own experiments, I shoot better with my pistol w/o glasses, than w/ glasses. I find it easier to focus on JUST the front sight. When I wear my glasses, I have more difficulty doing this. I have taken many people shooting for the first time, and in every case, when someone has mild near-sightedness, if they can still see the front sight, then I tell them to not wear their glasses. Invariably, they do better than people with perfect vision.
Focus on the front sight, and aim for the center of the blur.
-Morgan
Focus on the front sight, and aim for the center of the blur.
-Morgan
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