Originally Posted by
Whole Bunches
I had the "regular" implants done. Vision for distance was 20-20, but has slowly went to about 20-30 over months following surgery. I too had/have astigmatism, but is was slightly improved following surgery. I have to use glasses for reading.
So, here's what I did: Went to Walmart and bought the cheapest reading glasses they had in 1.0, 1.25, 1.5, 1.75 up to 3.0 at about $9 a pair. Took a known accurate (before surgery) pistol, open sight rifle, peep sight rifle, scoped rifle and various red dot type sights to the range and experimented. At 1.5, the open sight pistol shot the best. Any less power and the pistol sights were too blurry. Any higher power and the pistol sights were sharper, but the target was so blurry as to be hard to see.
Red dots still had the "cluster of grapes" look with no glasses, but with 1.0 reading glasses the dot was perfectly sharp and shot great! I'd never know before that the Eotech reticles were actually sharp.
Here's my chart/results:
EYE GLASSES
0 RIFLE SCOPES
DISTANCE VISION
VORTEX SPITFIRE 1X & 3X
1 RIFLES WITH PEEP OR OPEN SIGHTS
ACOG REFLEX
EOTECH
AIMPOINT RED DOT
PA 2.5X REFLEX
MILLET RED DOT
1.25 DRIVING BIFOCAL TO MAKE DASHBOARD SHARP
1.5 OPEN SIGHT PISTOLS
2.5 DESKTOP COMPUTER
3.0 READING
IPAD
DETAIL WORK
Notes: "0" = no glasses (other than safety) are needed. For 1.25 and 3.0 I buy cheap bifocal glasses via Internet. Bottom part has the magnification for reading or seeing the car instrument panel and top part is simply clear (or tinted for sun) no magnification for distance viewing. I got used to using the bifocals in a few minutes. Generally the cost of them is $15-$20.
For my shooting friends in my age group, after them having had cataract surgery, I'd bring an assortment of reading glasses to the range for them to try out and see what worked the best for them so they knew what to buy if any. Every person in my group of 4 got different results from everyone else. Even the I hate red dots cause they aren't sharp (2 persons) got sharper/useable red dot vision with the aid of low power reading glasses.
In the case of regular magnification scoped rifles that had been sighted in, everyone needed 1-2 clicks to get back to being sighted in. Everyone needed the scope refocused for sharp crosshairs.
This is certainly a case of YMMV.