holy cow!!!! i can see!!!

[todd]

about a month ago, i went to eye doc and two weeks ago i got these. it took me two weeks just to used to them. headaches galore, i still wore them. its been 4 or 5 days since i had a headache. but i can see good again. i used to have glasses when i was young, but at 16 or 17 yo my eye dr told me not to wear them. (i had 20/20 on both eyes.)

last december, there was a doe, 50ish yards from my stand. i was using my win m94 in 35/30 with williams fp aperture sights. the doe was broadside, so i lined up the shot but all i could was brown blur. i look over the sights and i can see her. then i look thru the sights and a brown blur. welcome to nearsightedness, now if you just take a chair.....

i should have gone to the eye doc two years ago. now i get to shoot all my aperture sight rifles again. bummer!!!!

 

[Ian]

At least it wasn't "catillacs"....yet. Maybe you'll get your deer this fall with open sights.

 

[KeithB]

I got that "now I can see" feeling after my first cataract surgery. Gotta take care of the eyes!

 

[Maven]

That's great news indeed, todd! Coincidentally, my wife and I are scheduled for a visit to our ophthalmologist on Monday. To mangle a phrase a bit, it is surely true that "the eyes have it."

 

[Jeff H]

That's great news, todd and I'm glad you got such a positive bump.

Those specs lend a rather studious air to that nice smile. Be careful or you'll have women following you around now.

Couple years ago, my dad (84 this year) had cataract surgery. His glasses were really thick and I'd noticed he wasn't cleaning them. They were a real mess, like someone rubbed Vaseline on them. My brother got him to go to the eye doctor and he had cataracts. They were so bad that he didn't even know how dirty his glasses were.

Since the surgeries, he doesn't even NEED glasses. As soon as the first patch came off, we were sitting on his porch and he points and says look at the deer.

ME: I don't see a deer, your eyes OK?

HIM: There's THREE, right THERE!

ME: WHERE?!

They were literally a half mile away at the edge of the woods, across a large field. Once I realized how far he was looking, I DID see them, but he sat there with no glasses and spotted them after not being able to see for several years. None of us knew. It then dawned on me - that's why he stopped shooting his handguns. He wasn't shooting for squat and didn't want anyone to know.

 

[todd]

At least it wasn't "catillacs"....yet. Maybe you'll get your deer this fall with open sights.

the last time i shot i shot a deer with open sight was around 2 years ago. it was with the same rifle, win m94 in 35/30 and 200gr fn gc(rcbs) and it going 1700 sumthing fps. it was only about 25-30 yards away from me tho.

i didn't take the 30-40 krag last year, i was too busy with my 9.3x57 and the 2-7x leupold. i like aperture sights. now, my eyes have been given a reprieve for 30-40 krag, 7.65x53, 8x57 and 35/30. next week i'll load a few cartridges up and "see"

 

[fiver]

sights are over rated.

 

[popper]

She is scheduled for cat/lens replacements next month. Always worn glasses for far vision, she's worried something will go wrong. Keep telling her, same doc that did mine, did fine.