Sight Problem-Hard to See

A visit to your optometrist might help.

1. New glasses. No-line bifocals work for me. There is a sweet spot in there somewhere.

2. Cheap Wallyworld reading glasses that focus at front sight distance.

3. Meret Corp Stick-on iris for your old glasses.
http://www.meritcorporation.com/

rc

A small apurture site affixed to your shooting glasses can help provide greater depth of field and supports focusing on the front site.



This one is $70 at Brownell's but you could do pretty much the same with a carefully cut piece of eletrical tape for almost nothing.

http://www.brownells.com/.aspx/pid=8767/Product/DELUXE_OPTICAL_ATTACHMENT

Just had a Thread about it yesterday or the day before.

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=539494&highlight=testers+model+paint

Use Testers Model Paint.
Stay away from red paint or nail polish.
Red is just as hard to see as black in dim light.

White, or yellow, or florescent green, yellow or pink is best.

A white base coat under the color of choice will be brighter.

A Tritium Night Sight on the front is excellent if your gun can be fitted with one.

rc

Cheap reading glasses work for me. I buy the low powered 1:00 ones and they work just fine. The front sight is crystal clear and the target is slightly blurred - which is the way it used to be before my eyes went to hell.

Tri focals with the center lens focused at front sight/computer distance.
I'm 72, so you can guess what shape my eyes are in, but using the "shooting lens" I have no problem seeing/hitting at any distance with handguns.

As has been mentioned you might try a pair of cheap "reading glasses" with the power to focus on your outstretched thumbnail.

I had a pair of "shooting glasses" made with the power of the center lens of my trifocals for rife shooting.


I've been wearing tri focals for flying many years now. I had to get the center lens because it started to make my front seat helicopter passengers nervous when I kept asking them, "What's that guage reading now?"

rcmodel said:

Just had a Thread about it yesterday or the day before.

White, or yellow, or florescent green, yellow or pink is best.

A white base coat under the color of choice will be brighter.

rc

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This is what I use for my handguns. Bright white modeling paint covered with a thin coat of translucent day-glo orange. I can see my front sight blade in most any conditions.

-MW

XS sights with the smaller front sight works best for my carry guns.The rear sight is a very "shallow" V (120 degrees+) and easily aquirred sight picture (for me).

I think once the OP stated it was for ccw, special glasses cannot be the answer here.

Modified or special glasses for a carry gun... why would anyone think wandering around bumping into stuff and not being able to see, wearing glasses with a focal length at the front sight distance, be the answer here?

Generally, sights are seldom used in civilian self defense.
YMMV

Modified or special glasses for a carry gun... why would anyone think wandering around bumping into stuff and not being able to see, wearing glasses with a focal length at the front sight distance, be the answer here?

I think once the OP stated it was for ccw, special glasses cannot be the answer here.

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Tri focals are not "special glasses". They are a common thing for people that want glasses that focus at three different distances. Many people need tri focals but know nothing about them, so they just make do with the close up reading lens and the distance lens. The center lens is usually focused about 40 inches but can be focused at front sight distance.

They can be made to work, but Lenscrafters won't raise the focus point high enough for how I tilt my head when shooting...i'll have to find more accommodating lens grinders

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It takes a little getting use to a higher center lens but it works good. I hardly tilt my head back at all. I don't even think about it when shooting and I don't have to tilt my head when on the computer.

Serves to remind us about why shotguns were so popular in the old days...few people had access to an opthamologist .

When you got older and wanted to defend yourself, you became a shotgunner.

When you got older and wanted to defend yourself, you became a shotgunner.

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Clint Eastwood in "Unforgiven"

Depending on what you're shooting, you could have a gold bead installed.






Not all front sights are tall enough to accept one, and it'll get costly to put them on everything you own. But you could pick out the ones you think you really need it on and have those done up. Smith & Wesson does still offer it on some of it's revolvers with pinned-in front sights. Jim Garthwaite puts mine in. Novak's offer the service as well.

Nasty said:

Serves to remind us about why shotguns were so popular in the old days...few people had access to an opthamologist .

When you got older and wanted to defend yourself, you became a shotgunner.

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OK then, who makes a IWB holster for the Judge

I said *shotgunner*, nothing about a short barrel minor gauge sorta let's pretend it's an effective toy.

Lure and Jig paint works for me

Got this stuff at Gander, as others have said use white first. You might want to get the thinner also, it gets king of thick.

For target shooting I wear a pair of "store bought" 1.75 reading glasses. For self defense I use Crimson Trace grip laser on my Kimber.

I, also, have a bright white dot on my front sight.

I dealt with this problem by installing Truglo Tritium / Fiber Optics sights on my main CC handguns. They are very easy to see both day and night. I also have a CT laser on my mian CCW.

Op: CCW
Nasty: *shotgunner*
...OK then

I have TruGlo TFO and Crimson Trace on my favorite (not necessarily my most frequently carried) pistol....but my vision is still 20/20 at age 53.

Thank you, LASIK.