Originally Posted by
TAZ
Sorry to hear of your troubles. Also welcome to the party!!
Astigmatism will screw with you pretty bad depending on the severity. I have mild astigmatism and went uncorrected for a long time. Had similar eye fatigue issues. This was exasperated by wearing ANYTHING that was polarized. Would start out ok, then after a bit of time my eyes would get so tired I couldn't focus clearly on squat. Bye bye high dollar Oakley polarized lenses .
Once corrected things got better for a few years till the ole vision took another dump. Now I'm at the point where transitions from far to near are time consuming. This was my primary driver for the RMR. Everything on the same focal plane.
See your doctor as soon as you can. Tell them what you're trying to do. They need to understand your goals and expectations to do their job. Pussy foot around and you'll be frustrated. If they act goofy about guns and such find another doc. Around here I can't throw a fat cat in any direction without hitting an eye doctors office. So it's not like they are hard to find.
My insurance doesn't cover eye exams, just figured that one out lol. You describing you issues with polarized lenses describes my mild astigmatism to a tee. I'll ask around the local shooting places and see which Dr's are shooter friendly, shouldn't be a problem in Northern Idaho though.
Originally Posted by
yoni
I feel your pain.
I have 3 Hi Powers that have become safe queens since I can't enjoy shooting them as much as I used too. One which is the most high end one I have with a BarSto barrel and full accuracy job, now sports Big Dots so I can use it at all. Hi Power slides are too narrow to mount an RMR on it.
My Pistols are slowly but surely getting mounted with RMR or Leupolds. By the way at close distance I just use the sight as a TV screen to sight on center mass and it works for me at limited distance of 7 meters and in.
I am looking to get some significant time on a friend's Glock 40 MOS (I know, I know) here in the very near future and just see how much better I perform with the dot vs the irons.
Your story of the Hi-Powers bums me out
98% Sarcastic. 100% Overthinking things and making up reasons for buying a new firearm.
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