^^This has been my SOP for several years.
^^This has been my SOP for several years.
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Like you're seeing two dots? That doesn't sound like astigmatism. At least not like I've ever experienced. Astigmatism you see one dot, but it has random little spiky looking protrusions around the edges. It's pretty much how street lights look through a wet windshield, or if your eyes are watery and you look at a bright light in the distance.
It's one bigger dot with a little dot at 5 o'clock (or 10 o'clock here recently for some reason). Yeah, it's astigmatism.....I can look through the sight and rotate the gun but the big/little dot configuration doesn't move.
Pisses me off because I used to have better than 20/20 vision. Oh well, I'm still above ground!
The little peep on the rear BUIS doesn't work as well if you're going for speed, i.e. close-in stuff. It's hard to throw the weapon up and acquire the dot(s) inside of it as quickly as without the peep up. However, if you are making a longer shot it certainly helps with the multi-dot issue. Another thing that helps for further shots is turning the intensity down a notch or two, until you can barely see it. The "burst" isn't nearly as pronounced then.
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Do you see 2 of anything else. That would concern me for diplopia and you should see someone. Otherwise astigmatism still.
Don’t focus on the dot, focus on the target.
The dot will be blurry
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Take it outside and see, I've had several did be a complete mess because the inside lighting wasn't bright. I've got a pretty good (or bad if you want to look at it like that) and even with glasses some dots are a-ok outside and terrible inside. Not a big deal since if I'm inside the dot is plenty small enough no matter the shape, or a second dot, the glasses will usually fix the second dot though.
This^^. When I explain to someone how to use it, I tell them to focus on the target and then, leaving both eyes open, bring the sight up until the dot comes to the target, never losing focus on the target itself. Dot is almost an afterthought and appears smaller and uniform/round when I follow my own advice.
Not saying you can't have an eye issue that is affecting it, but this technique fixes incorrect usage errors.
Also, have dot brightness turned down to the lowest that you can and still be able to see it in the lighting condition you are shooting.
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Astigmatism sucks.
FWIW, something Eotech will be clearer to your eyes. However, I still run an Aimpoint at work. The peep trick works great, I sight in this way, but for anything man sized, inside of 100, it doesn’t really matter.
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