Can't see the target anymore.

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I love to shoot iron sights but I'm about ready to give them up. I know you're supposed to focus on the front sight and let the target be blurry but the target is now so blurry that I cannot tell where the edge of the bullseye is. It's not even a circle anymore. It's just darkness.

I mean, I'm not blind. I can see far away or I can see up close. But when I look through my sights I cant put anything together that resembles a usable sight picture and it's a major chore to force my eyes to try.

I'm now 43 years old and just had my prescription updated a little over a year ago. I'm thinking about getting it done again but I'm not sure it will help. Have any of you fought this battle?
 
M1A shooting a NRA 100 yard target. I've tried both standard .070 and NM .040 rear apertures and both standard and NM width front sights. The NM sights seemed even worse with my eyes.
 
Have your optometrist move the optical center of your dominant eye to the position of the lense you are using when sighting.

I had my shooting glasses ground that way. The first time I sighted down the iron sights The front sight was perfectly sharp. Only the dominant eye should be ground that way. Not for bifocals. I'm nearsighted and remove these shooting glasses if I need to mark down scores.
 
I also have a 1903a3 with a .0100 front and rear sight which strangely is a little easier on my eyes but it's still a struggle.
 
Sorry. Can't figure out how to reply with a quote. I did buy a merit aperture to stick on my glasses but it was a huge hassle to get it positioned correctly and I eventually gave up on it.
 
Clinton350 said:
Sorry. Can't figure out how to reply with a quote. I did buy a merit aperture to stick on my glasses but it was a huge hassle to get it positioned correctly and I eventually gave up on it.
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Since you tried the Merit Optical you may want to try the eyepal which is a much simpler system or get prescription glasses.
Another option is to try reading glasses to find the magnification that makes your front sight sharp and see what the target looks like with them on.
 
I see the quote option now but it's not working. Maybe because I'm using an iPad. I'll give the eye pal a shot and may investigate reading glasses. I'm nearsighted but also was prescribed bifocals last year for the first time. I stuck with single vision because the reading part of the glasses would be too low in my glasses to be of any use.

Isn't there some kind of stick on readers you can place in the upper part of your glasses to help with this? Will in work on top of prescription lenses for nearsighted people?
 
NO.

You can't shoot service rifle properly with some gizzie stuck on your glasses.

Head position is EVERYTHING in service rifle.
If your stick-on-aperture gizzie is 0.0002 mm off-axis between your eyeball and both sights, your shots are going to be all over the place.

Drug store reading glasses will be WAY too strong.
The weakest reading glasses you will ever find are 1.00 power.
Vastly too strong for shooting rifle.

If you can get your hands on some "computer glasses" that are 0.25 power, or 0.50 power max, you might have some OK results with service rifle sights on a short course.
 
I started using brighter, orange or red targets, and try to make sure they are in good light. Getting old sucks......:)
 
Clinton350 said:
I love to shoot iron sights but I'm about ready to give them up. I know you're supposed to focus on the front sight and let the target be blurry but the target is now so blurry that I cannot tell where the edge of the bullseye is. It's not even a circle anymore. It's just darkness.

I mean, I'm not blind. I can see far away or I can see up close. But when I look through my sights I cant put anything together that resembles a usable sight picture and it's a major chore to force my eyes to try.

I'm now 43 years old and just had my prescription updated a little over a year ago. I'm thinking about getting it done again but I'm not sure it will help. Have any of you fought this battle?
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My eyes lasted a little longer than 43 years before the problem arose, but I've moved on to optics. Red dots when I don't want magnification and scopes when I do want magnification.

If I had an M1A, I'd be seriously considering the mount and red dot that is available on the new SOCOM CQB.

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2016/01/foghorn/hands-on-with-springfields-new-m1a-cqb/

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Clinton350 said:
I love to shoot iron sights but I'm about ready to give them up. I know you're supposed to focus on the front sight and let the target be blurry but the target is now so blurry that I cannot tell where the edge of the bullseye is. It's not even a circle anymore. It's just darkness.

I mean, I'm not blind. I can see far away or I can see up close. But when I look through my sights I cant put anything together that resembles a usable sight picture and it's a major chore to force my eyes to try.

I'm now 43 years old and just had my prescription updated a little over a year ago. I'm thinking about getting it done again but I'm not sure it will help. Have any of you fought this battle?
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Try Peeps .... you'll thank me later
 
try something next time you go to the range....

instead of focusing on the front sight.......try shooting a string.....and only focus on the target and see how you do.
 
I like that little dot sight on there! My dad is going through the same thing. Heck of an excuse though, good enough to justify a RMR on his pistol. I am thinking maybe I am in the same boat already lol...
 
I had some thin 1.5 diopter reading lenses I was able to use inside my shooting glasses and the front sight was crisp but I didn't shoot any better with it as the target was all blurry at 10 yrds.

I had a doctor acquaintance who used to shoot high power and he said some people get lenses for their shooting eye that had a focal length for twice the sight radius of the rifle and this gives them a good enough picture of the target as well and still God for the front sight. Don't know if it works.
 
Well, that's why in the old days, a soldier needed 20-20. I can't see down many rifle iron sights, or any US sights from trapdoors to 03A1's. Peep sights increase the chances of atleast getting a blurred target/ or front sight, concentrating the view helps? I guess they blacken out unneeded 'light' that is distracting your iris. If your lens can focus on either the front sight or target, then it is up to your brain to chose- swap. Been to the eye doctor lately? I know people who went for cataract implants, and now shoot better than when they were kids- and cats can happen at any age. My favorite optic is the SUIT on the FN L1A1. I will bet they were designed for a soldier to lose his glasses and still stay in the mix. Seems to be corrective lenses on steroids!! Good luck!
 
I'll be 66 in a few weeks. Fortunately my vision, while not what it once was, is not hat bad. I do wear glasses but mostly for small print reading, my distance is not that bad. Shooting M1 Garand, M1A and my AR10 the rear sight is a blur ring but a blur is fine. My front blades are clear and relatively sharp as well as the targets at a few hundred yards. I can still manage a 6 O'Clock sight picture and alignment, hold and squeeze. I guess I should be pleased that I can still shoot less my glasses. I really love and enjoy shooting the rifles I mentioned with their open sights.

Ron
 
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