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    Also, with Aimpoints you focus on your target, not the dot. If you bring your focus back to the dot it WILL turn into a blob. Like I said before, it would be great if you could try some of these different optics to see what works for you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wetidlerjr View Post
    I'm 65 and I need help beyond 50-75 yds. Also, I have found clarity to be as important as magnification.
    Well @ 62 I guess I feel young again, but must totally agree that clarity is a major factor in "seeing" the target well enough to hit it.

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    Hmac you have a lot of good info and chris vogler at safe vision talk about glasses with the stick on lens (on my shooting eye) also to help see the front sight and use the other eye for the target when using iron sights . Super guy to talk to about perscription shooting glasses. And i talk to eotech today and they were very helpful also.The man i talk to there said he wears really thick glasses and looking threw the eotech with his glasses on it looks the same as if the eotech was not even there.But he said go to a bass pro shop or some place thats has them stock and put my glasses on and see what it looks like. Good ideal but its been hard to find them stock around here so far. I might have time to go to OKC later this week and check up there. Call Aimpoint today but they never call me back as of tonight. Thanks again for everybody's help.
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    Re: Hard Time Seeing Targets(age related)

    Quote Originally Posted by heat-ar View Post
    Hmac you have a lot of good info and chris vogler at safe vision talk about glasses with the stick on lens (on my shooting eye) also to help see the front sight and use the other eye for the target when using iron sights . Super guy to talk to about perscription shooting glasses. And i talk to eotech today and they were very helpful also.The man i talk to there said he wears really thick glasses and looking threw the eotech with his glasses on it looks the same as if the eotech was not even there.But he said go to a bass pro shop or some place thats has them stock and put my glasses on and see what it looks like. Good ideal but its been hard to find them stock around here so far. I might have time to go to OKC later this week and check up there. Call Aimpoint today but they never call me back as of tonight. Thanks again for everybody's help.
    Both Aimpoint and EoTech work on the same principle. The dot focuses at distance, so if you can see a clear target, you will see a clear dot (depending on astigmatism and corneal damage).

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    Another 59 year old checking in. I’m near sighted as well to the same degree in both eyes as well as being right eye dominant.

    With Glasses – Target sharp, sights blurred

    Without Glasses – Target Blurred, sights sharp

    I ended up getting my optometrist to rebuild a pair of my safety glasses with polycarbonate lenses. The right lens (dominant eye) was ground flat, no correction. The left lens was ground with my prescribed correction. I now shoot iron sights (pistol and rifle) with both eyes open, the dominant right aims along the sights to the target while the left fills in the detail on the target. It takes a few sessions to get used to this setup but the glasses seem to fool the brain into a proper binocular image. If you have a pair of retired glasses you can experiment by removing one lens and trying it out.



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    Quote Originally Posted by heat-ar View Post
    Hmac you have a lot of good info and chris vogler at safe vision talk about glasses with the stick on lens (on my shooting eye) also to help see the front sight and use the other eye for the target when using iron sights . Super guy to talk to about perscription shooting glasses. And i talk to eotech today and they were very helpful also.The man i talk to there said he wears really thick glasses and looking threw the eotech with his glasses on it looks the same as if the eotech was not even there.But he said go to a bass pro shop or some place thats has them stock and put my glasses on and see what it looks like. Good ideal but its been hard to find them stock around here so far. I might have time to go to OKC later this week and check up there. Call Aimpoint today but they never call me back as of tonight. Thanks again for everybody's help.
    My daughter is/was an ophthalmology tech and I have two shooting buddies that are ophthalmologists. We've had long conversations about this very issue as my own eyes have become presbyopic. Your problem is fairly common. The fact that you're near-sighted in addition to presbyopic makes correction for shooting irons a little more complicated, but not excessively so.

    The nice thing about red dot sights is that the same vision correction you need for distant vision works fine with the RDS. You can shoot both eyes open with your regular glasses. This is one reason for what appears to be an increased popularity of reflex sights for pistols, like the RMR. The nice thing about magnified optics is that they almost universally have a diopter adjustment to accommodate your vision. You can shoot them with one eye or both eyes depending on your preference. The problem comes in with iron sights because, unlike scopes or RDS where target and reticle are in the same plane, with irons you have to find a way to focus at two vastly different distances, something that your 49 year old eyes just can't do anymore. Monocular vision is one way to to it, a stick-on lens is another, but whatever, shooting with irons is an entirely solvable problem by a knowledgeable ophthalmologist or optometrist. Shooting with an RDS or scope shouldn't really require any creativity on the part of you or your eye care person. Even if you look through someone's RDS and find the reticle blurry, that more than likely just means that your prescription isn't correcting for any astigmatism as it should be.

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    Age Related Problems

    Quote Originally Posted by heat-ar View Post
    Hey guys i have been lurking for awhile on this sight and have got some great info over time. I have been plinking for awhile with my entry level Ar 15 and thought it was time to move up to a better ar . I have bought a new colt le6920 and with the iron sights i can shoot good groups out to about 40 yards and then my age kicks in (49)and i can't see the targets very well. I am near sighted and can see the iron sights fine but the targets get tuff to see past 50 yards. Would a eotech or aimpoint help with targets past 50 yards?? Maybe some magnification with a eotech or aimpoint might help?? And i do wear glasses to drive with to see far off but they don't work well for shooting. My eyes are not real bad i can still read part of the 20/20 line at the docs office. Thanks for any info.
    As I got into my 60's I had to stop using my Aimpoint's and EoTech's as I needed more help. Now at the end of my 60"s I need a magnified optic with excellent resolution to shoot at 100 yards and beyond. My scopes are usually Nightforce NXS either the 3.5-15X50 or the 5.5-22X50. For shooting over 600 yards I find I need the NXS 8-32X56 on my AIAW folder and my TRG 22.

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    Well i had my eye doc check me again. My eyes are the same as they were three years ago(first time ever being to one) 20/15 with my glasses and 20/25 without them. He thought my allergies were a big part of my problem. So he switch my eye drops for my allergies and told me to use a eye lubricant. AS of today my eyes feel and see so much better using that lubricant. Doc said some time when your eyes are watery like mine have been you need to lube them and i said i thought just the opposite and he said not to use the allergies drops unless my eyes are itchy.And some time he said you have to use both because allergies drop can dry your eyes out and that will causes the body to produce watery eyes.

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    This is good advice. Although it sounds almost counter intuitive, dry eyes with associated corneal irregularity is the major cause of excessive watering.

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    I can tell already i will be using less of my allergies drops and use more of my lubricant drops.My eyes have not drop a tear all day.

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