Crow#21957
50 Cal.
That looks interesting. Do you have to keep redirecting your eye or does this all work together no problem.
Besides age, I've got the problem of the loss of my right eye. With only one eye, my sighting alternatives are more limited.No firearm alteration peep sight option !
Below is photo of the eyeglass frame clip-on DEADEYE peep-sight I designed 55+ years ago to resolve my blurry vision open-sight issues in competition & hunting.
This setup will provide you with a clear picture of front & rear sights & your target.
Back in my younger competition days I provided several of my fellow competitor friends with these & always received grins with the results.
This peep sight can be made for less than $12.00. The jewelers loupe can be purchased from Harbor Frt. for about $5.00 or ordered off Amazon for about $10.00.
For the black optics disc I've always used the bottom of a 35m film canister & use the removed glass lense as your pattern. Start with drilling a .040 dia. hole in the center for your aperture for clarity, I use .060 in mine.
The arm can be tweaked to conform to your eyeglass needs & nice benefit is the eyepiece swivels out of your line of vision when not needed between matches.
As usual there are always forum naysayers to this option but it sure beats sticking a piece of gooey tape on your lense & altering your upper barrel flat with holes & dovetails.
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I went the opposite way from southpaw to RH shooter after a pacemaker implant. I still shoot handguns southpaw. Sometimes I think I should have changed years earlier. It would have given me a wider assortment of guns to buy!I have an unmentionable with a peep sight that folds down into the tang area. I am more accurate with that sight than any other. I was a RH shooter for 50 years, but ARMD has made me into a southpaw. NOT an easy transition.
Not sure if I understand your question but this device works the same as any peep sight.That looks interesting. Do you have to keep redirecting your eye or does this all work together no problem.
Agreed for the most part. However, a peep is not only for aging eyes. It also enhances accuracy on younger people as well. One needs to look no further than the military and how the standard sights for their rifles were peep sights. I doubt there were many real old soldiers, eh?Aperture sights on the tang are the way to go with aging eyes and open sights because you have one less focal plane for your eyes to focus on. With an aperture rear one looks through and ignores any notion of centering from the rear as your eye will do it naturally and only focus on the front blade and target. Also rear apertures are easily opened for more light to come through without much if any loss of aim accuracy.
The other thing is to make a much wider front blade sight which will give far better definition against targer or game than will the traditional fine blade front. A wide front blade shows better definition both in windage and elevation than does a thin front blade and is easier for ageing eyes to focus on . Next stop will be scope sights.
I found that readers in the 0.5 or 0.75 diopter range were the best to put the front sight in focus. These low power readers were promoted for use at a computer terminal. The only ones I found were very cheap and scratched easily. They also don't offer the protection of even cheap safety glasses, but they do work to get that front sight in focus and the target is only slightly blurred with the rear sight clear enough to center the front sight. I had to look on E-Bay or Amazon to find the readers. I did get the cataract surgery and now I don't need the readers. I feel better using my quality safety glasses.I find a set of reading glasses that let me focus on the front sight and I am fine (as good as its gonna get). I can put a piece of skotch tape over my right lens about halfway across the right side of the lens or block that field of view that my right eye would see if I looked at the sight and target. This lets me keep both eyes open and I don't get confused at my sight picture.
At the range I just use a weak pair of reading glasses and I am good. I read with 3X but shoot with 1/5X or 1.75X.
Tried the reading glasses thing 1.5 and it worked good. Three shots touching at 25y and evil Roy dead center at 50y. Also easy target made from you wives shepherd hook plant hangers and a little welding, had the steel from cowboy action shooting.At the range I just use a weak pair of reading glasses and I am good. I read with 3X but shoot with 1/5X or 1.75X.
No disrespect intended here, and I do not know your particular vision issues, but the facts are it works just the opposite. The smaller the sight(s) the more difficult they are to see in poor light conditions. A ghost ring or large aperture will gain you precious minutes of hunting in early morning/late evening, not lose.I find the peep sights work fine at the range but not so much hunting in evening low light. I have a lyman 57 on one of my GPRs and even removing the rear aperture completely, I loose the most important 10 min of the day.
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