Your Own Shooting Ability ? ? ?

[Hawk]

Pistolero,
My mother and father both had cataract surgery. They both had the same comments that they had forgotten how bright and clear the world looked. Apparently the cataracts had restricted the amount of light that reached their eyes.
They were thrilled with their new vision. I'm sure you will be too. Good luck!

 

[Cherokee]

Going to go out and shoot a match tomorrow. Will be interesting if I can do as well as I did last year, I'm sure going to try......it'll be fun anyway.

 

[Cherokee]

Did fairly good today, hit all 125 targets for a clean shoot and 10th place. Good thing the targets are big.

 

[35 shooter]

Cherokee, you did have a good day...nice shooting.

 

[Brad]

Any day you have fun is a good day. Hitting all the targets makes it a great day.

 

[Ben]

You know Brad....you just summed it all up in one impt. statement.

Any day you have fun is a good day

I feel we get so enveloped in OAL's, alloy, bullet diameters, rpms, etc that we
forget your very impt ! statement.

If it isn't fun most of us wouldn't be doing it.

Ben

 

[Pistolero]

Cataract surgery for right eye seems to have gone well, but they did another
procedure at the same time which leaves a lot of debris in the eye in front of the
lens. Initially, it was like looking through a milkshake - zero vis. The second morning after, laying in
bed my vision was quite good, seemed about 20/20 but as soon as I got up and moved
the debris churned up again and only light and dark for the rest if the day. It is now a week
and in the AM, for 1/2 hour if I move slowly and don't look down, it is sparkling clear,
great vision inside the house, but it is clear that there is a smidgen of uncorrected
astigmatism still (knew that going in) and perhaps a very small nearsighted correction
needed for long distance. Bright, bluish and WONDERFUL, but if I move around too much, the haze
comes in. Now I can still see well enough to drive at "max haze", and it clears up more each
day. Have picked up some different cheap reading classes to learn what works. Looks
good now with readers for reading and great inside the house and around the yard with
no glasses, left eye blurred.

Looking forward to all the debris gone all day and getting the left eye done - it should
not have the extra procedure that creates the debris, so should be clear very soon.

Very heartening to be able to see pistol and rifle front sights very clearly with no
correction in right (master) eye. Slowly getting back, but I think at least a month or
more away from really being fully sorted out.

Thank God for modern medical miracles, and make no mistake - this stuff is a
miracle.

 

[Rick]

Absolutely a miracle. Was a life saver/changer for me. Took probably two weeks+ for my eyes to clear up completely after each eye and know for sure what I would have. I didn't get both sights and targets though, distance is pretty good uncorrected considering how bad it was before surgery but reading glasses are a must now and it's either sights OR target. If I try to use glasses that take away from the target to bring in the sights I get both very poor. I use Champion brand shooting glasses, put in the prescription distance lens for your shooting eye and then use a second diopter lens in front of that lens that takes away from the target until the sights are useable. Problem is that by the time I can see the sights well enough to use them there is no target left to aim them at. If I don't use the diopter lens there is no sights. Oh well, life is tough huh? The cataract surgery aside from the disappointment for shooting was still the single best thing I've ever done. It truly is a miracle and life changer.

Glad to hear that yours went well, by next week you'll be even happier. I'll bet you had forgotten how bright sunlight is huh?

 

[Pistolero]

Hah! Yes, the sun is bright. Have not looked at a target over the sights, we will see how that
goes, but it seems like at least pistol sights will be OK and the target. BUT, until I actually
do it. . . . . .

One day at a time right now. Thanks for the psychological lift before this. Having someone
cutting on your eye is not without aprehension, at least for me. Now looking forward to getting
the left eye "matching".

THEN I will do Ben's test.

 

[Ben]

I wish you a score of 101 on the test.

Ben

 

[Pistolero]

Thanks, Ben. At this point I have no idea what my new capability will be.
I used to be a really decent pistol shot and pretty fair with a rifle. We will
see in a few weeks what I will have with my new lenses.

 

[Ian]

"Apprehension" is one way of putting it. Nothing like having a scalpel, grinder, tweezers, and various suction tubes and needles jammed into one's eyeball while awake...and not being able to blink. Hopefully they treated you to about 10mg of Valium beforehand Glad you came through ok, anything that milks-up the anterior chamber should clear in short order, that fluid exchanges rapidly. The vitreous chamber is, as they say, fo-evah, which is my problem.

 

[Pistolero]

Debris is clearing, as the eye "settles down" it is getting more nearsighted.
That is easily fixed with glasses later and I can just this PM begin to read the laptop at
about 20 inches without reading glasses. Difficult to tell where it well settle in, but
having the debris essentially gone now is a huge help.

As to irremovable floaters. . . . . that doesn't sound good at all. Is there no way to
somehow pull out the fluid and run it through a filter and put it back. . . . sort of
eye dialysis? Seems easy to say, but I would bet I'm not the first person to think
of it and if it was that easy, they'd be doing it.

 

[Cherokee]

I can't imagine someone cutting on my eyes; I know many people have it done but that would be hard for me. I wish you the best results.

 

[Pistolero]

Well, once the "original equipment" gets so bad that you can't do too much, not as
much to lose as a few years ago. A lot easier when you are in pretty bad shape and
a promise of much better.

 

[Rick]

The "scalpel" they use is a laser along with a host of other high tech instruments. I had nothing to lose by having it done, I had waited so long I was legally blind. I was blaming it on diabetes and the eyes were going downhill fast. I had three different Optometrists over about a 15 year period and the best advice I got from any of them was to start getting glasses twice a year. I finally took my head out of my hieny and went to see an Ophthalmologist and that was a life saver, it wasn't diabetes eye damage it was cataracts. Nobody is going to convince me that none of the Optometrists couldn't see that I had cataracts during numerous eye exams and mention it to me, nothing but buy glasses more often.

I had the left eye done first because it was the worst but immediately after I bumped up the date to get the right eye done. All the apprehension over eye surgery was gone because it was such an effortless experience and the results are dramatic. As with any surgery they put you under and when you wake up all is done and your wondering why they have the lights in the room so bright. Like Bill said, a true modern miracle.

Never again will I go see a quack Optometrist, they are nothing but eye glass salesman. If you need an eye exam go see a real Doctor, an Ophthalmologist.

 

[smokeywolf]

Outside of maybe two instances, I've always gone to ophthalmologists to get my eyes checked and get my glasses. Learned from a fairly early age that even those closest to you should not be trusted, until and unless they've earned it. In my entire life, I've had only 4 doctors that I had near complete trust in.
Back on the subject (sort of), my mom had cataract surgery twice while in her early eighties; made a huge difference in her life.

 

[9.3X62AL]

Cataract surgeries have made a telling difference for me in re-establishing my enjoyment of shooting and angling pursuits.

Now, to answer Ben's question about the 4" black bull centered on the paper plate......currently, 50 yards using the S&W Model 16-4 x 6" with the RCBS 32-98-SWC and any load prompting 950-1000 FPS. Give me some re-familiarization time with the roller, and I could extend that to 75 yards with a fair measure of confidence. I have hit dozens upon dozens of small varmints to 125 yards with this sidearm during the 26 years I have owned it. The 16-4 is by some distance the most accurate revolver I have ever owned, and it is absolutely box-stock except for its grip panels. Only a Walther GSP-C has bested its accuracy for me--alas, I had to return the Walther after a 6-month loan. Them thar 32s sure can shoot.

 

[Ben]

Can't believe I have not owned a nice 32 Revolver ! ! !

Ben

 

[KHornet]

Have had cataract surgeries on both eyes over 10 years ago. Slight improvement on right eye, a bit more improvement on the left. All things considered, at 76, I can still cast, load, shoot, hunt, and once in awhile shoot a decent group or two. I have no complaints, as I am looking down at the grass rather than up, and name is not in the obituaries or the divorce notices. I consider myself fortunate!