Talk about small

[VEARL]

Went to the range again yesterday.
Took the Renegade 54 cal. with me. Set up at the 75 yd. line.
Sighted in for my first shot and WOW !!!
What happened to my eye sight. That 6 in black target has sure shrunk. Was lucky to stay in the black or on it's edge.
I know that I'm getting old, so do we senior citizen's get any benefit if we come near the target?
May start shooting at 10 inch paper plates. :surrender:

 

[necchi]

Awh, it happens all the time. If the light wasn't quite right, or your hat was too low, too much coffee, or just a plain bad day.
One of the biggest things for me is just simple practice.
If I don't get to the range on a regular basis my shooting falls way off.
Each spring I need to log 15-20hrs at the range with the ML's before things begin to dial in again.

 

[Rifleman1776]

Get an eye check by an opthamologist, real medical doctor. You might have cataracts. If you do surgery will replace the old foggy lens with a new, clear plastic one, just like the real mountain men had. After that the target will look like it did when you were 20 years old.

 

[huntinguy]

Hmmm.

I can see the target okay enough... I just don't know where the sights went... :rotf:

 

[VEARL]

Oh....I can see the target of. It just seems that it keeps getting smaller and smaller.
Could be that my sights are covering it all up too, at 75 yds.
Yepper I consider that a bad day at the range.
I demand a redo of that day.

 

[hanshi]

Do like I do and swear you were shooting at the 7 ring. :grin:

 

[VEARL]

Hanshi,
I can always say I am shooting at the biggest part of the target first. :rotf:

 

[Longtrain]

For someone who is closing in on 60, I have had my eyesight become an issue when shooting open sights for many years.

The key thing is shooting open sights it being able to focus on the front sight, the target can be a bit blurry, but you must maintain focus on the front sight. If you try to focus back and forth between the target and the sight, your eyes will fatigue and accurate shooting becomes much more difficult. I have my eye doctor prescribe me a lens that will allow me to focus clearly on the front sight. Increasing the distance from your rear sight to the front can make it easier to focus on the front sight. These are all work arounds, unless you want lasix, our eyes won't be 17 again, or anything else for that matter.

Tony

 

[gearheart]

If I had to choose between the eyes or the anything else, I'd go with the eyes. :rotf:

 

[reddog]

If I had to choose between the eyes or the anything else, I'd go with the eyes. :rotf:

I'm goin' for the gusto,,,I want it all!!!

 

[Bruce H]

Boy can I relate to what you're saying. And I'm just coming up on 63. About 3 years ago I had all kinds of trouble seeing the front sight on my Pedersoli Frontier. I got a lot of good advice here that helped some, but not to where I felt good about it. So I gritted my teeth and put fiber optic sights on it. I'll leave it to everyone's immagination what that looks like :barf:. But at least I can now shoot at times other than high noon in bright sunlight. Fortunately where I hunt deer, 50 yards is a long shot because a 8" bullseye at 100 yards almost disappears.

 

[Richard J.]

Turned 65 in Dec. Have had a sight problem with shooting for 10 years now. Doc says with my problem to get used to it your getting old. Lasik wont work for me. Went to fiber optics and it has worked for me. I found that with fiber optics I have to shoot a lot more at 100 yards to be in the black. I shoot top to top. Works for me. Hell getting old. Wont quit shooting. At 100 yards in the woods I need it to be about one hour after daylight to see well. Glad most of my deer are well under that. Shot a big 8 point this year at 90 yards right at 12:00. No problem seeing then.
My problem is dragging them out, really feel your age after a mile or more drag.

RJ

 

[ryoung14]

My problem is dragging them out, really feel your age after a mile or more drag.

RJ

At 66, I know what you're talking about. Not much I can do about the eyes but, hunting on my own property, the drag is no issue. I just toss them in the bucket of the Kubota.

 

[Paul R]

The whole secret is to take somebody younger to 'mentor' in deer hunting.
I hunt moose in the wilds of Manitoba where there are no roads. We get there by float plane. I take younger guys to do the bull work, I mean to mentor them. They take me because they still think I know more stuff then they do. It's win-win.
Paul

 

[Len Graves]

Hey you paid for the whole target, Why not use it. That's my story and I'm stickin to it.