One eye

[gamedog]

Hi Guys, Im hoping to get some advice please. I lost my left eye (accident caused an eye stroke so now have a little peripheral vision only), I use my right for shooting luckily enough but everythings 2D now. I had very good eyesight when I was younger but now 54 ... my right eye is both long and short sighted with astigmatism. I have progressive glasses which are amazing. Really keen to get back into shooting after the accident. 2 questions really.

1. Glasses
Do I shoot with my progressives or what other option? I cant read the turrents unless I have glasses on.

2. Binoculars
Best to sell my Mavin 10x as they are a waste but whats a decent monocular?

thank you heaps im advance

 

[DownhillFromHere]

1. Glasses
Do I shoot with my progressives or what other option? I cant read the turrents unless I have glasses on.

You'll have to experiment and find what works best. Just let the journey happen and accept that you will likely change your mind as you try different things. This is especially true if you compete in events with short par times.

I'm in my 70s and had cataract surgery years ago, so I have very poor reading-distance vision without reading glasses. So, with regard to reading turrets:

• I tried one of those magnifiers that mount on the scope tube. I found that, unless I was positioned Just Right (which was NEVER Just Right on a PRS stage), either glare or wrong angle made the thing useless. It didn't last a week.
• Some people have tried putting little stick-on reader lenses at the periphery of their shooting glasses. I never tried that.
• Over time, I realized I could see the numbers on my scope turrets (not clearly, but well enough to adjust on the clock) if I lifted my head up and back from the stock comb. It's not optimal to "come out of the gun" on the clock, but it has worked well enough.
• I'm seeing a fair number of turret "wraps" - a piece of white tape - on the elevation turret with specific stage elevations marked in big numbers with a fine sharpie pen. It appears the numbers can be wiped off and reapplied. Interesting... I haven't tried it.

2. Binoculars
Best to sell my Mavin 10x as they are a waste but whats a decent monocular?

What is your use case? Do you need a small hand-held monocular, or can you use a spotting scope? Is 10x enough for your use case, or would more be better? Vortex offers monoculars at various price points and magnification from 8x to 15x. I have no experience with them. In my experience, 10x is about the max I can hand-hold and really see anything, and I've learned that trying to hand-hold my 15x binos is pretty useless - they go on a tripod.

Wrt tripods - at matches, pretty much all the tripods I see are tall carbon-fiber (CF) beasts. I have a couple of decent aluminum tripods from my old photography hobby so I didn't want to spend more $$ on CF. I have found the short, very light aluminum tripod to be adequate and much easier to carry at matches - but if the wind blows much, it would be pretty shaky. I've seen CF units shake in the wind too fwiw.
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Anyway. My $.02 worth. Good luck.

 

[Gasgun]

I wear progressive lenses. They absolutely suck for shooting with magnified optics.
I’ve given up trying to make them work.
I set the diopter to my uncorrected vision and leave the glasses off while I shoot.
I have gone to grid or tree reticles on all my rifles so I don’t have to dial.

 

[TonyAngel]

I'm 60 now and can't see for crap up close any more.

When I was in grade school, I was taught "ROYGBIV" to remember the colors of the rainbow.

Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Indigo
Violet

I dont know why that's stuck with me, but it has. I use paint pens to mark my turret. I zero for 200, so Red for 200, Orange for 300, etc.