Thread: Glasses and shooting

my eyes have been getting progressively worse in the last couple of years. Mainly the reading stuff. Couple of pairs of warehouse cheapies sort that but they have still degraded more than i like to admit since I've started wearing them. Only when i have to mind. Didnt really twig to it when it started, but i did notice struggling to read from a bedside lamp maybe 4 years ago but with more light it was fine. Just thought i was getting old(er).
Back when I had my head injury in 2014, for the first few days out of the coma my eyesight was shit for the first half an hour or so after i woke up. like smearing vaseline all over a car windscreen.
The pressure on my brain had transferred to the blood vessels and nerves behind the eyes and given them a bollocking. I thought at the time it wouldn't do me any favours and still suspect that now.
As for shooting, i am starting to realise that yes my scopes need readjustment on my older rifles and after trying to sight in one of my old reliable 22s at a forum members range just before covid, my scope looked like shit. I had only just got it back from a good friend who had been looking after all my firearms when i was in aussie for 10 years so hadn't used it for a long time.
I just thought the old cheapie scope had crapped out.
well i found that scope the other day and looked through it with my reading glasses on and yeah it wasn't the scope haha.

Originally Posted by csmiffy

my eyes have been getting progressively worse in the last couple of years. Mainly the reading stuff. Couple of pairs of warehouse cheapies sort that but they have still degraded more than i like to admit since I've started wearing them. Only when i have to mind. Didnt really twig to it when it started, but i did notice struggling to read from a bedside lamp maybe 4 years ago but with more light it was fine. Just thought i was getting old(er).
Back when I had my head injury in 2014, for the first few days out of the coma my eyesight was shit for the first half an hour or so after i woke up. like smearing vaseline all over a car windscreen.
The pressure on my brain had transferred to the blood vessels and nerves behind the eyes and given them a bollocking. I thought at the time it wouldn't do me any favours and still suspect that now.
As for shooting, i am starting to realise that yes my scopes need readjustment on my older rifles and after trying to sight in one of my old reliable 22s at a forum members range just before covid, my scope looked like shit. I had only just got it back from a good friend who had been looking after all my firearms when i was in aussie for 10 years so hadn't used it for a long time.
I just thought the old cheapie scope had crapped out.
well i found that scope the other day and looked through it with my reading glasses on and yeah it wasn't the scope haha.

your not alone mate.......it comes to us all..... recently adjusted all my scopes for my older eyes..havent resorted to glasses when shooting YET..but pretty much need them for anything under an arms length away... my driving glasses work for all ranges for now..can get by reading with them but cant drive with reading glasses.... some of the 1----1.25 cheapie glasses are rather good I can walk around happily wearing them.
sharpening ANYTHING now required glasses to get the best edge.