Any solution for OGD??

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cougar gt-e

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Hi,

I am really getting a bad case of OGD - Old Guy Disease. My eyes are getting
so bad the sights are fuzzed together real bad.

My eyes have been behind glasses or contacts for 45 years. I can use reading glasses and the sights are clear, but the target is fuzz. Regular glasses and the target is fine, but the sights ...

Anyone have this affliction and a solution?

Thanks from an OGD sufferer...

jb
 
I'd recommend a wide rear notch sight, plain black. Put a large highly visible front dot sight on it and it's about as good as irons get. XS sights are a great option as well and function in the same way, although they are really only appropriate at defensive ranges.
 
Get some prescription glasses with safety lenses specifically set up for shooting.

If you poke around you can probably find an eye doctor who knows how to do it. Mine is a shooter and we've already discussed how to fix the problem when the time comes.
 
Are you using bi-focals or tri-focals? With my "lower" lens sight picture is normal like it was when I was a kid.

"Sacramento" Bruce Conklin
 
Red dots work great. Love them on my rifles, I just havent seen anything I'd want to use on a pistol yet, but they are getting smaller.
 
Are you using bi-focals or tri-focals? With my "lower" lens sight picture is normal like it was when I was a kid.

"Sacramento" Bruce Conklin
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I tried the no-line bi-focals. Couldn't see a thing. I mean I couldn't read the paper, couldn't read street signs, couldn't read billboards, couldn't see the monitor. Couldn't see znit. Took a financial bath on them too.

That really soured me on bi-focals.

My eyes are super bad. (bat's are 20-20 compared to me!) Do the line bi-focals work well?
 
Wow, I wonder if the results were that bad it wasn't more of a prescription-quality problem than unsuitable technology.

I wear no-lines progressives. I used to go to national-chain optical stores but then found out a local opthalmologist is an Olympic shooter. The quality of prescription I got from him was immensely better than anything the mall-storefront optometrists ever did.

He also gave me another prescription for shooting glasses, the dominant eye a single-vision lens focused on my front sight, the other my normal prescription. He also had them adjust the focus gradients on my normal glasses so shooting with them would be easier. All my lenses are ballistic-grade polycarbonate. The optician associated with his practice also offers a full warranty so if the lenses aren't satisfactory, they redo them until they are.

I also practice without corrective lenses, just standard plastic eye protection, so I know what to expect if I have to defend myself without my glasses. Without correction, I can see clearly only less than a foot from my nose.
 
From the movie "Big Jake" (paraphrasing):
Duke: "Do you have a gun?"
Indian Freind: "No"
Duke: "Near or Far?"
IF: "Far, my eyes no good anymore"
Duke: "Me too" (as he holds up a shotgun).

Sucks getting older. I can't do lots of things I was able to do when younger (just ask the wife). So, I don't do em.

LK
 
My solution was simple - I went from shooting rifles to shooting shotguns - now I only have to worry about distance vision against clay targets. Works great and I get to shoot a LOT more shots than I used to with a rifle (and they're less expensive)...:D
 
Like hecate, I wear shooting glasses with the right lens ground to focus on the front sight. The target is not fuzzy enough to matter.

For self defense, you just have to do the best you can in your street glasses. Ranges are usually short anyhow.
 
Progressives

That's the answer for me. I went 20 years with just reading glasses, but last year I had to get my first prescription. Took a month to get used to them, but they are great. I'm having my B&L Shooting Glasses done in the same prescription.

Like I tell my sons, I'm not getting older, I'm getting more manure.
 
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At almost 65, I have been more than blessed with my eyesight, . . . I am able to read even the smallest printed Bible or other books, . . . newspapers, . . . magazines, . . . and only very rarely have to put on my "drug store bought" cheaters.

That said, . . . I have faced up to the day when I will have to do something about my inability to shoot as I want to, . . . and I came to the conclusion offered by ursavus.elemensis, . . . that being a laser grip sight.

Glasses may or may not be available, . . . may be dirty, . . . may be scratched, . . . may be fogged up, . . . but that little red dot of laser light on the second button down from the bg's chin, . . . I can SEEEEEE that.

I'm not there yet, . . . but there is a day when it will happen, . . .

May God bless,
Dwight
 
I can use reading glasses and the sights are clear, but the target is fuzz.
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Supposed to be this way.

Generations of shooters tell us that focusing on the front sight and making the target beyond it blurry, while holding that front sight centered in the target, gives us better accuracy than making the front sight blurry and the target sharp.

It's mechanically impossible for your eye to focus on two objects at different distances.

So...
-Identify the target
-Find your front sight
-Stick the front sight on the target
-Hold it there while squeezing the trigger

Rinse and repeat as necessary.
 
Rather than spending a bunch of money on gear and glasses, why not get laser (lasik) eye surgery? It will correct your nearsightedness (far away objects look fuzzy). Granted, you will still need reading glasses.

My wife had this procedure done a couple of years ago and she has better than 20-20 vision in both eyes. No side affects whatsoever. Before the surgery, she wore some really thick glasses - terrible vision.

It's not cheap, but from what I've seen, it's a great investment.
 
Lasik surgery

I'll vouch for the laser surgery, what a worthwhile investment! Post-surgery, my vision was back to 20-20.

However, your vision will not be permanently 20-20 following the surgery. Once you hit 40-ish, my eye doctor told me that my eyes will change and I will most likely need glasses again, and, true to form, I've noticed my vision getting a little blurry again on faraway objects (I was horribly nearsighted before the surgery). So, I'll eventually probably need prescription shooting glasses as my eyes get worse.

The last I heard, they also didn't recommend getting lasik beyond a certain age (IIRC, the magic number was once you reach your early 40's, but don't quote me on that...), but that may have changed since I had my surgery 6 years ago.

Still, if you can afford it, and if you're physically able (depending on eye condition, age, etc. etc. etc.), it is fantastic, and I'd recommend it to anyone!

My $0.02,
McClintock
 
If you are just target shooting, the sights, with the use of your glasses, should be clear and the target area should be determinable but need not be necessarily clear. You can observe your groupings upon retrieving the target.

I suffer from the same O G D. I normally wear tri-focals for day to day functioning but had a pair of mid-range glasses made. I went to the eye doc and told him what I was attempting to do. I held my hand out the distance I normally fired from. He measured that distance and then made a pair of glasses that make the sights perfectly clear and the target somewhat fuzzy.

I find that if I put a small piece of masking tape on the center of the target, I have an easier time picking out the contrast between my sights and the target. Also little sticky red or yellow dots will help.
 
Are you using bi-focals or tri-focals? With my "lower" lens sight picture is normal like it was when I was a kid.
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Look into progressive lenses. They are like bi/tri focals but with multiple focal areas that should allow you to see smoothly from up close to far away.
 
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