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