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by Cowpokey » Mon Sep 09, 2019 7:11 pm
I started noticing my "old eyes" a couple years ago, finally went to the eye doctor in February this year and found out I'm "cockeyed". Near sighted in my left eye and far sighted in my right eye, right eye dominant. I can't focus on iron sights worth a hoot, especially using a handgun. I put a Vortex Venom red dot on my Buckmark Plus UDX before getting glasses, best modification ever for that gun. On rifles/carbines I use scopes, because I can hardly see the rear sight. With my New Vaqueros, the "fixed" sights (trough and front blade) are no problem. With my SGC, the rear peep sight is fine, since I can see a shadow where the outline of that aperture is. We took my daughters new Golden Boy to the range a couple hours ago to get it sighted in, and I can't see the rear sight well enough to make adjustments. My main problem, I have progressive lenses, I have to lift my head so far up to be able to focus on the sights, that I can't hold the gun steady...it also means that everything beyond the sights are blurry with both eyes.
As my dad always says, "A poor excuse is better than no excuse." I have to disagree with him on this subject though...my old eyes screwed me over in the iron sight department. Maybe I'll get some shooting glasses, with a lens for far sighted right eye and a lens for my near sighted left eye...then I can be corrected cockeyed, exactly the opposite of uncorrected.
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