smokeywolf
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I'm sneakin' up on that senior discount now. Yep the gel in my left eye is shrinkin'. I'm hoping my dominant eye doesn't follow suit.
I looked at this one today.
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Don't much care for the wood or the price of some of repop type guns. Seen documentation of a few Uberti offerings coming apart.
Ian
Sorry to hear of your floaters. Hopefully they'll subside. I had some post cataract surgery but, they went away quickly. Makes you feel like your mind is playing tricks on you.
Sure miss the vision I enjoyed as a youth.
Ian
Sorry to hear of your floaters. Hopefully they'll subside. I had some post cataract surgery but, they went away quickly. Makes you feel like your mind is playing tricks on you.
Sure miss the vision I enjoyed as a youth.
Pistolero
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Oh, my goodness....."miss the vision I enjoyed as a youth." Yes, yes, a thousand
times yes.
I am thankful that I can do most things without glasses, at about 20/25 to 20/30 vision,
and since the left eye wound up about 20/30 and the right about 20/20-25ish, the combo
is eminently "serviceable", all things considered - after cararact surgery. HOWEVER, the
right (dominant) eye, while able to see the front on long Mausers very well - the rear (middle)
sight is essentially invisible.......
. I used to really love to shoot my many old
Mausers and other milsurps....... Have not yet tried the magical (not kidding, if
you haven't tried it, you REALLY need to) Lyman Hawkeye on the long milsurps. It is
truly wonderful on handguns.
The pinhole effect makes work with aperture (peep) sights still rewarding and I managed to qualify for
the Vancouver medal (min 85 score on a pretty tough bullseye at 300m with Swiss rifle) on
my first try this year, IME a minor miracle, even prior to the eye surgery. That is with
and aperture rear and match front with a ring sight, and wearing my glasses to correct
the astigmatism. Nothing to do about the retinal damage from glaucoma, which cause
an overall "foggy, low contrast, odd - sort of just not quite right" sense of the image.
I used to keep a few Hawkeyes, NIB, in my shooting kit to sell to those who asked about it at the range and then
tried it. 100% asked immediately "where can I get one and how much does it cost?" - I started
selling them for a $0.25 profit, rounding off my wholesale cost to $20.
Left eye (non-dominant) works best for pistol shooting uncorrected, but the dominant is still good enough
for most purposes, esp quick work. Add the Hawkeye and the dominant eye will still shoot
well, but it is fussy. Sigh. Back to the original statement.
But it certainly could be far worse. Correctable with glasses to pretty much 20/20 almost 20/15 in best eye, although glaucoma
damage means it really isn't anywhere near as crisp and contrasty as even 5 years ago.
No significant floaters so far. The Mauser scout scope mount (in Projects) for a friend is to allow him to use it for a hog hunt
early next year, he has serious floater issues in dominant eye, needs a scope to work at all.
Bill
times yes.
I am thankful that I can do most things without glasses, at about 20/25 to 20/30 vision,
and since the left eye wound up about 20/30 and the right about 20/20-25ish, the combo
is eminently "serviceable", all things considered - after cararact surgery. HOWEVER, the
right (dominant) eye, while able to see the front on long Mausers very well - the rear (middle)
sight is essentially invisible.......
. I used to really love to shoot my many oldMausers and other milsurps......
. Have not yet tried the magical (not kidding, ifyou haven't tried it, you REALLY need to) Lyman Hawkeye on the long milsurps. It is
truly wonderful on handguns.
The pinhole effect makes work with aperture (peep) sights still rewarding and I managed to qualify for
the Vancouver medal (min 85 score on a pretty tough bullseye at 300m with Swiss rifle) on
my first try this year, IME a minor miracle, even prior to the eye surgery. That is with
and aperture rear and match front with a ring sight, and wearing my glasses to correct
the astigmatism. Nothing to do about the retinal damage from glaucoma, which cause
an overall "foggy, low contrast, odd - sort of just not quite right" sense of the image.
I used to keep a few Hawkeyes, NIB, in my shooting kit to sell to those who asked about it at the range and then
tried it. 100% asked immediately "where can I get one and how much does it cost?" - I started
selling them for a $0.25 profit, rounding off my wholesale cost to $20.
Left eye (non-dominant) works best for pistol shooting uncorrected, but the dominant is still good enough
for most purposes, esp quick work. Add the Hawkeye and the dominant eye will still shoot
well, but it is fussy. Sigh. Back to the original statement.
But it certainly could be far worse. Correctable with glasses to pretty much 20/20 almost 20/15 in best eye, although glaucoma
damage means it really isn't anywhere near as crisp and contrasty as even 5 years ago.
No significant floaters so far. The Mauser scout scope mount (in Projects) for a friend is to allow him to use it for a hog hunt
early next year, he has serious floater issues in dominant eye, needs a scope to work at all.
Bill
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I, too, use a Lyman Hawkeye diopter. My vision is bi-focal corrected and the device really brings front sights into sharp focus. It works well with a rear peep sight, however it's another matter when using a rear peep sight and a front globe sight. Three holes are too many to look through?
Floaters are an annoyance, and having to wait till they clear the sight picture can be a test of patience.
Floaters are an annoyance, and having to wait till they clear the sight picture can be a test of patience.
Pistolero
Well-Known Member
I have never tried the Hawkeye with an aperture sight, I figured the aperture in the sight was giving me what
I needed.
I wouldn't call the Hawkeye a "diopter", which implies a lens, and is actually the unit of measure for lens
strength. It is correctly a pinhole or an aperture. The pinhole camera effect is really amazing - the light
rays which are not going to be naturally in focus at your retina are excluded, so it appears to act as a
lens, but actually focusses nothing. It also has the impossible-to-do-with-a-lens infinite depth of field.
You can make your own to try it out. A small metal disk with a sharp edged hole about .060-0.080 or so
in diameter somehow affixed in front of your eye will do it. Many glue it to a bit of stiff wire and solder that
to a small alligator clip and clip it to the temple of glasses, bending the wire as needed.
The only cost is brightness - light to the eye is limited, so things are dimmer. No issue at all on a full sunny
day, can be significant on an overcast day or at dusk.
Bill
I needed.
I wouldn't call the Hawkeye a "diopter", which implies a lens, and is actually the unit of measure for lens
strength. It is correctly a pinhole or an aperture. The pinhole camera effect is really amazing - the light
rays which are not going to be naturally in focus at your retina are excluded, so it appears to act as a
lens, but actually focusses nothing. It also has the impossible-to-do-with-a-lens infinite depth of field.
You can make your own to try it out. A small metal disk with a sharp edged hole about .060-0.080 or so
in diameter somehow affixed in front of your eye will do it. Many glue it to a bit of stiff wire and solder that
to a small alligator clip and clip it to the temple of glasses, bending the wire as needed.
The only cost is brightness - light to the eye is limited, so things are dimmer. No issue at all on a full sunny
day, can be significant on an overcast day or at dusk.
Bill
Pistolero
Well-Known Member
INTERESTING! I have never heard diopter used except as the power of eyeglasses. I think
that Lyman is incorrect, too.
When I was younger, moderately nearsighted I had -1.25 diopter correction, which grew to
about -3.5 when I was 60ish. Now, after cataract surgery, only a fraction of a diopter for
slight nearsightedness, mostly correction for astigmatism. Technically it is the inverse of
the focal length of the lens, measured in meters.
Regardless, pinholes are really neat stuff and help us old shooters a lot. I had another guy
try mine and said he would be ordering one last Saturday at the range.
Bill
that Lyman is incorrect, too.
When I was younger, moderately nearsighted I had -1.25 diopter correction, which grew to
about -3.5 when I was 60ish. Now, after cataract surgery, only a fraction of a diopter for
slight nearsightedness, mostly correction for astigmatism. Technically it is the inverse of
the focal length of the lens, measured in meters.
Regardless, pinholes are really neat stuff and help us old shooters a lot. I had another guy
try mine and said he would be ordering one last Saturday at the range.
Bill
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It's a great day when we learned something new. Yes, diopter refers to corrective eyeglass lenses.
However: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diopter_sight
Confusing, ain't it?
From now on, though, I'll use aperture.
However: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diopter_sight
Confusing, ain't it?
From now on, though, I'll use aperture.