Getting old sucks.

[Doc Robin]

Yes it does but spoiling the grand kids makes up for it.

I'm up to 2X reading glasses

Bill

 

[TYSTYX]

You think you guys have it bad? Try my situation. Two years ago my (dominant) right eye's retina detached, tore in three places and did damage to the macula. The rips were repaired, but now, because of the macula damage my vision in that eye is like looking through distorted glass. I can't even use a red dot sight, and the reticle lines in my scope look super wavy, but at least they cross each other in the middle sort of. . Why do I still use that eye to shoot? Because my left eye is also bad and wearing glasses doesn't clear up the image enough to allow me to shoot with it.

 

[Dirt Dart]

Getting old does suck, but here's a pic of my left lens in my glasses....I got my own built in optic!

You should paint some cross hairs on that thing. You would be good to go......

 

[SmokeStack Lightning]

Back n da day, when "The Golden Girls" came on, I thunk "Who would want to watch a TV show with 4 old ladies on it?"

Welp, now that I'm older (61) I look at that show and think, "Man, those BABES are hot"!!

Plus I'm only floggin the carrot 5 times daily now instead of my usual 7x.

 

[OldEagleEars]

When the eye doc refused to change my glasses prescription last year with the news that I had cataracts so bad new specs would do no good, I bit the bullet (had to; couldn't hit anything shooting it!) and got lined up for surgery on both eyes (a week apart). Now I have artificial lenses and can see things at a distance I hadn't been able to see since I turned thirty (38-years ago!) and discovered things didn't really have a tannish tint to them. But the good news had it's limits and the length of my arm was it; within that distance my "new eyes" didn't help (other than to equalize the amount of blur on both sides). The bifocals I had made didn't work for shooting (tilting your head back so the bifocal part of the lens is functional looks and feels stupid), so I've been trying to find a cost-effective way to see the front sight of a pistol, the buckhorns and the bead, or the red dot or crosshairs of a scope. I had some 2.5 magnification readers at home from my pre-operation days but they made the area beyond the front sight a total blur and since I was trained to be aware of what your target was doing that was a total failure. At the suggestion of a friend I bought a cheap pair of 1.25 magnification readers and that seems to have cured my problem. I haven't tried them with all my various pistols and rifles but so far they let me see the sights without the target dissolving into mush and that's what I was looking for. It's not perfect but still a damn-sight better than the brownish blur I was living with before the operations. Get your eyes checked and find out just how good (or bad) your vision really is and act accordingly. Believe me you won't regret it!

 

[Silver Duck]

Have you tried adding a Merit optic device to your glasses? It's a variable aperature device that attaches to your glasses lens, and is quite effective at increasing the depth of field of your focus.

 

[SmokeStack Lightning]

When the eye doc refused to change my glasses prescription last year with the news that I had cataracts so bad new specs would do no good, I bit the bullet (had to; couldn't hit anything shooting it!) and got lined up for surgery on both eyes (a week apart). Now I have artificial lenses and can see things at a distance I hadn't been able to see since I turned thirty (38-years ago!) and discovered things didn't really have a tannish tint to them. But the good news had it's limits and the length of my arm was it; within that distance my "new eyes" didn't help (other than to equalize the amount of blur on both sides). The bifocals I had made didn't work for shooting (tilting your head back so the bifocal part of the lens is functional looks and feels stupid), so I've been trying to find a cost-effective way to see the front sight of a pistol, the buckhorns and the bead, or the red dot or crosshairs of a scope. I had some 2.5 magnification readers at home from my pre-operation days but they made the area beyond the front sight a total blur and since I was trained to be aware of what your target was doing that was a total failure. At the suggestion of a friend I bought a cheap pair of 1.25 magnification readers and that seems to have cured my problem. I haven't tried them with all my various pistols and rifles but so far they let me see the sights without the target dissolving into mush and that's what I was looking for. It's not perfect but still a damn-sight better than the brownish blur I was living with before the operations. Get your eyes checked and find out just how good (or bad) your vision really is and act accordingly. Believe me you won't regret it!

My Ma had cataract surgery a couple of years ago. She's 85.

She was shocked how vivid colors seem to her now. Especially the color green.

While she's sitting around and the light hits her eyes just right, she has "Terminator" eyes!

 

[Csc57]

I added the 2-5x lucid magnifier and was much better. The second ring is gone and my groups tightened to 1 inch at 25 yards. The only bad thing is the weight and length of the scope magnifier combo. I could put a 6x24 scope on and use leases rail space.

 

[go_vtec]

Magnifier helps, but dimming the light can also help regardless the age. When the red dot is too bright, it can create a hollow ring even for young eyes. Others buy crosshair optics or 65 MOA ring around 1 MOA dot (Eotech) to compensate for less than perfect eyes (myself included)