Eyesight correction & shooting

[Daryll]

I did think about the trifocal, but was warned by the surgeon that there was a greater chance of halos around lights so some people found that driving a night became difficult

I've heard that too, from someone who had them fitted.

Racalman, we were discussing this in another post and you mentioned having a close focus lens in your shooting eye... I can understand that working with iron sights, but how good is it with scopes..??

[Racalman]

I did think about the trifocal, but was warned by the surgeon that there was a greater chance of halos around lights so some people found that driving a night became difficult

I've heard that too, from someone who had them fitted.

Racalman, we were discussing this in another post and you mentioned having a close focus lens in your shooting eye... I can understand that working with iron sights, but how good is it with scopes..??

Hi Daryll

It works perfectly. Having standard fixed focus lenses give the best quality vision and although the focal length is fixed there is a depth of focus so it's not an absolute cutoff.

I'm lucky that although I'm right handed I have a left dominant eye but shoot with my right. My left eye is now distance and my right eye -1 dioptre (= 1 metre). Most scopes have more than +/- 1 dipotre adjustment on the eyepiece so the reticle and image are sharp.

The downside is I had to sell my ACOG because there was no adjustment for the eyepiece and the reticle was blurred.

[Daryll]

I did think about the trifocal, but was warned by the surgeon that there was a greater chance of halos around lights so some people found that driving a night became difficult

I've heard that too, from someone who had them fitted.

Racalman, we were discussing this in another post and you mentioned having a close focus lens in your shooting eye... I can understand that working with iron sights, but how good is it with scopes..??

Hi Daryll

It works perfectly. Having standard fixed focus lenses give the best quality vision and although the focal length is fixed there is a depth of focus so it's not an absolute cutoff.

I'm lucky that although I'm right handed I have a left dominant eye but shoot with my right. My left eye is now distance and my right eye -1 dioptre (= 1 metre). Most scopes have more than +/- 1 dipotre adjustment on the eyepiece so the reticle and image are sharp.

The downside is I had to sell my ACOG because there was no adjustment for the eyepiece and the reticle was blurred.

Ok thanks.... thats typical, I've just bought an ACOG..!

Daryll.

[Racalman]

Ok thanks.... thats typical, I've just bought an ACOG..!

Daryll.

Well that's something to bear in mind when you choose your lens implants. I replaced my ACOG with a Sightron scope.