Thread: iron sights and bad eyesight

I'm old and shoot open sights all the time - I go hunting with them.
I can't use apertures, I have an eyesight issue that blurs out the centre of the aperture - so I use Vee sights mounted forward on the barrel.
A few years back I got an artificial lense inserted as the old one milked up - and I can see forever, but have to wear glasses for close up ............. and I still use open sights.
Over the years my eyes have deteriorated, there is scarring from an old accident that is reducing the quality of the picture that is formed at the back of the eye. How badly that affects me, I don't know - I don't know what other people can see, but I do know it's more than I can.

For a few hundred years people had no option but to shoot open sighted.

I remember reading about Walter Bell the elephant hunter - people said he was a good shot.
He was a good shot because he carried his rifles and practiced constantly - he would lift his rifle and sight on a rock, twig, leaf, and he would do that 100 times a day - day after day and that developed muscle memory and a confidence in what he was doing.

Walter was a good shot with open sights because he made himself one.