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mullen7 wrote:Went the other route and got laser eye surgery nearly 3 weeks ago, have been shooting since and while I've had to re-zero my scope on my air rifle, I've found its pretty much made my shooting better.

The Jury is out on that one Blair there is a rumour that old Alex shot your targets on Thursday night.

Probably did the blind sod. But then, he shoots on everyone's targets, because he can't see or hear anything!!

AJSawyer wrote:Thanks everyone.

I'm a big tart too then, because that's exactly what I'm looking for!

Edit: What is the difference between HDC, smoke and clear, in terms of the practical uses? I see you've gone for HDC, is that a decent all rounder?

Supposedly the HDC increases resolution of objects - thus far I've used them indoors and outdoors, happy with them though I think clear would be just fine also.

I ordered the crossbow suppressors and the insert... Insert arrived a week ago, but I'm still waiting on the glasses from the states...

I switched to contact lenses for better correction of my short sightedness when shooting, glasses being a PITA for me. However when target shooting with Diopter sights the rearsight has become blurred thanks to the correction. Has anyone else found that corrected eyesight hasn't improved their shooting or is it just me?

Rgds
al

datalore wrote:I switched to contact lenses for better correction of my short sightedness when shooting, glasses being a PITA for me. However when target shooting with Diopter sights the rearsight has become blurred thanks to the correction. Has anyone else found that corrected eyesight hasn't improved their shooting or is it just me?

Rgds
al

I spent a lot of time with several opticians a couple of years ago because I was determined not to let my failing eyesight prevent me from shooting what I want, with the sights I want to use!

The conclusion was, for me at least, that contacts are too much of a compromise to be effective and reliably provide the right amount of correction. The production tolerances are too wide for most types of contact lens, meaning that the lens could differ from what's printed on the box by as much as 1/4 dioptre or more. I also have very different prescriptions for each eye and need different amounts of correction depending on the type of sight on the gun. Contacts are also not very good when it comes to correcting for other faults such as astigmatism. The marketing blurb will say they are as good as glasses, but in reality they are not.

So I went the prescription eye protection route with Oakleys which have interchangeable lenses so I can mix different prescription lenses I had made to get the best result.

It's not a cheap way to do it, but the results on the range justified the time and money to me.

You also need to find an optometrist who is willing the spend the time and effort working on the prescription with you. IMO most of the high street dispensing opticians are a waste of time in this respect, as they spend all their time on reading and long distance prescriptions and aren't very experienced when it comes to something a bit more specialised.

datalore wrote:I switched to contact lenses for better correction of my short sightedness when shooting, glasses being a PITA for me. However when target shooting with Diopter sights the rearsight has become blurred thanks to the correction. Has anyone else found that corrected eyesight hasn't improved their shooting or is it just me?

Rgds
al

Are you using your standard distance script in your contact lens ?

Martin

datalore wrote:I switched to contact lenses for better correction of my short sightedness when shooting, glasses being a PITA for me. However when target shooting with Diopter sights the rearsight has become blurred thanks to the correction. Has anyone else found that corrected eyesight hasn't improved their shooting or is it just me?

Rgds
al

I'm very short-sighted (-7) and have been all my adult/shooting life. Recently I've had to move from a single correction to vari-focals.

What I've found is that vari-focal glasses do not work at all with open sights, but are OK with telescopic sights. However vari-focal contact lenses are fine with either.

Triffid

Hi Martin,
Yes using my standard script, is that wrong? but Triffid you have got me thinking about vari focal contacts - i didn't know they did them, certainly my optician hasn't mentioned them. I wonder if horrendous astigmatism means they (vari contacts) are not available for me.
More work to be done...

rgds al

datalore wrote:Hi Martin,
Yes using my standard script, is that wrong?

rgds al

You will probably find that using your standard distance script results in the front ring not being in focus, the target should be however.

Adjusting your distance script by deducting approx 0.25 dioptre should improve your focus on the front ring (and also reduce eye strain that results from trying to bring the front ring, at a distance of approx 36 inches, into focus whilst using a distance script).

Have a look around Art Neergard's website:

http://shop.shootingsight.com/0125-Sing ... r-lens.htm