Until now middle age eyesight hasn't affected my shooting very much. A little farsighted, I need reading glasses but see good otherwise. Shooting mostly pistols I do well with or without prescription lenses. Shotguns and casual clays? No problems. Garands, 03A3's, M1A's? Hmmm, well not as good as 25 years ago but still do OK on a SR-1 target at 100 yds.
Until tonight...Tonight my eyes met their match with a S&W MP-15X. Instead of groups I had patterns, looked like I was shooting a shotgun. No, I take that back I think most shotguns have better patterns! With standard prescription glasses I got a nice front sight picture, but couldn't see the target. Switch to uncorrected shooting glasses I could see the bull ok but the front sight was way too fuzzy. Less than ideal lighting and shorter sight radius than other long arms might have played some part in it but the fact remains I think it's time to invest in some specialized shooting glasses.
Any recomendations on what kind of glasses, progressive lenses etc I should get?
Until tonight...Tonight my eyes met their match with a S&W MP-15X. Instead of groups I had patterns, looked like I was shooting a shotgun. No, I take that back I think most shotguns have better patterns! With standard prescription glasses I got a nice front sight picture, but couldn't see the target. Switch to uncorrected shooting glasses I could see the bull ok but the front sight was way too fuzzy. Less than ideal lighting and shorter sight radius than other long arms might have played some part in it but the fact remains I think it's time to invest in some specialized shooting glasses.
Any recomendations on what kind of glasses, progressive lenses etc I should get?
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