Boom Vang
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- Feb 25, 2003
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There is no universal solution.
1. Distance-Corrected Rx eye protection. I found these VERY useful for clay target shooting, where your focus is on the target. USELESS for pistol and rifle.
2. Intermediate-Corrected Rx eye protection. Sights are sharp, but the target is blurry mess. And you can see neither close-up nor at distance. No good.
3. Rx Tri-focals/progressive eye protection. Take all of the above and add confusion, headaches and the tendency to want to yank the trigger when finally everything looks right. No good.
4. Weak pair of reading glasses. For myself and many others, this is a winner. Take about 50-75% of your normal reading correction (I'm 1.75 so I use 1.0-1.25). I've found the sights and target gain definition in the proper ratio and I shoot better. Have tested this with students with aging eyes and results are very good. Not the best for either distance or reading, but works well enough, along with the intermediate distances of iron sights and red dots.
5. Magnifying firearms optics. Focus the optic and just shoot.
1. Distance-Corrected Rx eye protection. I found these VERY useful for clay target shooting, where your focus is on the target. USELESS for pistol and rifle.
2. Intermediate-Corrected Rx eye protection. Sights are sharp, but the target is blurry mess. And you can see neither close-up nor at distance. No good.
3. Rx Tri-focals/progressive eye protection. Take all of the above and add confusion, headaches and the tendency to want to yank the trigger when finally everything looks right. No good.
4. Weak pair of reading glasses. For myself and many others, this is a winner. Take about 50-75% of your normal reading correction (I'm 1.75 so I use 1.0-1.25). I've found the sights and target gain definition in the proper ratio and I shoot better. Have tested this with students with aging eyes and results are very good. Not the best for either distance or reading, but works well enough, along with the intermediate distances of iron sights and red dots.
5. Magnifying firearms optics. Focus the optic and just shoot.