Front Sight Image

[ldykeman]

I just finished putting a fiber optic front sight on my Renegade, because I had a problem seeing the original sight (well, not the original patridge sight, the T/C Hawken bead sight). I have the T/C hunter peep sight in the rear. It is mounted on the 30" roundball barrel. When I look through the peep at the front sight, I see a nice distinct red bead, but just to the right of it, I see two much less distinct and dimmer ghost images of the dot. Sort of like looking into a defective mirror. The eyes that are doing the looking are 58 years old, but I don't use distance glasses, only 1.50 reading glasses. Anyone else see multiple front sight images?
Thanks,
Larry

 

[BrownBear]

Yup- 56-year old eyes here.

My solution was to replace the aperture in the peep site with another having a smaller opening. Clear as a bell now. I am giving up a little bit of extreme low light visibility, but I'll trade that happily for a clear view of the sights.

 

[ldykeman]

hmmmm...I went and drilled out the aperture to the max possible years ago to have a greater sight picture. I will have to get an original aperture and see how that works.
Thanks for the tip.
Larry

 

[roundball]

For my weekend range shooting, I not only like to use some eye protection but I wanted to get rid of the growing problem of a blurred rear sight, and the double front sights, etc...turned out that a large size pair of 1.25 diopter reading glasses helped these 61 year old eyes a lot on both counts.

 

[silverfox]

Sorry I don't have your problem. My problem is the target I see a ghost target. Strange thing so far is it doesn't seem to matter which target I shoot at don't know how that works. Guess it's time to see the eye doctor myself. It's not only targets it's birds flying by never see one anymore. Hope you get your ghosts cleared up.
Fox :thumbsup:

 

[CrackStock]

Close your left eye.

Sight.

Open your left eye.

Shoot when safely on target.

CS

 

[arcticap]

Blinking rapidly several times in succession may help to temporarily clear up the ghost image.

 

[ldykeman]

The blinking didn't cure it. Also, I find I am unable to shoot anything with both eyes open. What did cure it is the reading glasses thing. I have a pair of glasses with varilux lenses and by looking somewhere midway in the transition between reading and the top part (which has no correction), I see a distinct single red dot. Thanks for all the great suggestions. BTW, I called T/C Service dept. to see if I could get a replacement aperture, since I drilled my original out. They are sending one out free of charge. I told Diane, the extremely helpful cust. service rep, that this was no fault of T/C and I would be more than happy to pay for it, but she said that wasn't necessary and they would send it out for free. I also told her that if T/C ever built a full stock Penn. style flintlock, I would be first in line to buy one. She said that the demand is dwindling so much for traditional sidelocks that there is little possibility of expanding those offerings. :-(
Larry

 

[hobbles]

Mornin ldykeman
About the replacement aperture,,
I drilled mine out also, called them, told them the same thing, and got one sent to me for free also,

 

[jderrick]

yeah, I'm having trouble with my eyes and I'm only 25... manure....