Posted by chris webster on December 05, 2001 at 23:41:31:
I normally shoot in the evenings (10m air pistol) but sat. I shot early in the morning & my eye just would not focus on the front sight can anyone tell me what was going on?
Posted by mako on December 06, 2001 at 00:01:18:
You're getting older ... perhaps in your early forties . And you need shooting glasses or bi-focals to focus closer .
I have a small white dot dabbed on the top middle of my front sights to give me something to focus on .
Posted by Jack Foley on December 06, 2001 at 06:22:27:
I often need to use eye drops before I shoot early in the morning, or late in the day. Perhaps you too, have dry eyes.
Posted by Bubba on December 06, 2001 at 10:06:13:
Ok, some people are just not early morning people. Shooting early in the day is harder, because you have to shoot, take a sip of coffee, and a drag off the cigarette, and shoot, and take a sip of coffee, and a drag off the cigarette. Let the dog and cat out, get more coffee and cigarettes. Take your daily medication(s), and God knows how that dose of chemicals affects the body, Let the dog in, wonder where the cat is, and begin to think about the day's work.
Too much distraction, the stress will kill you.
Respectfully,
Bubba
Posted by Abel on December 07, 2001 at 11:08:12:
yeah, but by evening, then you've switched over to a beer, and the dog and cat still need to go out.
Here's the solution: Camelback water system filled with your fluid of choice. Doggie/kitty door for the animals. Hearing protection so you don't hear a damn thing, and let the world go by.
Posted by Ronny on December 06, 2001 at 16:12:32:
Hi Chris!
I don’t know if this will help you but it sure helped me a great deal: I went to my optic ,with my pistol and he measured the distance between my eye and the front sight in shooting position, then checked my eyes and made me a pair og glasses of yellow mineral glass, and with only the "shooting eye" adjusted to see a clear front sight.
This works for me very well ,and I don’t have to focus any more on the front sight, the glass do it for me.
Good luck!
Ronny
Posted by Alex Silva on December 06, 2001 at 17:55:28:
I did the same as Ronny and it also works for me!
Posted by Steve on December 07, 2001 at 13:18:32:
I find that it is easier to focus on a wider front sight. I look for a sharp edge across the top of the front sight, a slightly fuzzy rear sight edge and a blurry target. I find that if I try and do this while on target my eye naturally focuses on the largest thing, the bullseye. I raise the gun over the target and get a sight picture against a blank white surface, then drop down to the target. If the front edge gets blurry I start over.
Steve
Posted by Bill Demarest on December 11, 2001 at 09:52:31:
Hey Chris,
Check out Don Nygord's web sight at www.nygord-precision.com in the "notes" section there is an article;
"eyes have it". It covers some of the issues you may not have thought about
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