Glasses-what a pain!! My eyes have been failing for several years now. At first, a week pair of drug store variety glasses cleared up the sights and did the trick. Now I wear lined bifocals. For shooting the right upper lens is focused on the front sight, the left for distance and the bottoms of both for "reading" (cleaning out the touch-hole, changing flint etc.). This has worked out so-so. The target is still somewhat blurry as is the rear sight. In a woodswalk shoot where there are lots of shadows I have a hard time seeing the target. In some cases when the target is a rusty piece of pipe etc. in the shadows, I can't even find the target. Also the shadows give me eye strain and sometimes a headache. They work much better out in the open as in a paper or novelty shoot. The cheap drug store glasses would also work OK if I didn't need the higher magnification of the bifocal for "reading". For deer hunting I use my "regular" bifocals, and a smoothbore with a sling strap tied around the barrel and thimble about a foot back from the front sight. The strap acts as a rear sight (elevation reference) and seems to work tolerably well in low light conditions. Even after an eye test and new glasses I still couldn't see the lead splatter on the clanger targets or bullet holes from my .45c on paper at 25 yds. whereas other shooters could. When I told my eye doctor about this she said CATERACTS due to normal ageing process; not bad enough to operate but it certainly affects shooting. I guess it all comes with the baggage of a 1937 birth date.
