holy cow!!!! i can see!!!

[444ttd]

https://i.imgur.com/N6BteEM.jpg


about a month ago, i went to eye doc and two weeks ago i got these. it took me two weeks just to used to them. headaches galore, i still wore them. its been 4 or 5 days since i had a headache. but i can see good again. i used to have glasses when i was young, but at 16 or 17 yo my eye dr told me not to wear them. (i had 20/20 on both eyes.)

last december, there was a doe, 50ish yards from my stand. i was using my win m94 in 35/30 with williams fp aperture sights. the doe was broadside, so i lined up the shot but all i could was brown blur. i look over the sights and i can see her. then i look thru the sights and a brown blur. welcome to nearsightedness, now if you just take a chair..... (rofl)

i should have gone to the eye doc two years ago. now i get to shoot all my aperture sight rifles again. bummer!!!! (rofl)

[Winger Ed.]

Cool.
If you're a 'neat freak', just remember to keep them clean.

One time, my Grandmother went around the house dusting and cleaning what seemed like all day.
She was never satisfied with the job,,,,,,, until she finally cleaned her glasses.

[Wayne Smith]

I felt the same way after cataract, lasic, and glaucoma surgery all done at once, to each eye, a month apart. Once the healing settled down I could see without glasses for the first time since I was 9 years old! I had been in the process for several years to put scopes on my rifles, now I can go back to aperture sights. I have grown to like the scopes, though.

Story told here several times - I started reloading at age 16 and loaded for my Dad's 30-30. When I was an undergraduate at WVU he called me and told me something was wrong with the ammo I had loaded for him. I told him we would be back for Thanksgiving and we would check it out then. After Thanksgiving I asked Dad if he had any targets - nope. He took a grocery bag and put a two inch black magic marker bull in the center. Took that out to the mountain where we could shoot - he stapled the target up about 70 yards away from the truck, rested his rifle on the truck, looked through the scope, looked through the scope, and looked through the scope. He looked at me and asked "We did put a bull on that bag, didn't we". I said we had. "It was in the middle, wasn't it?" Yes, it was. He looks through the scope, bang! bang! - two shots fired. We went down to the target - two shots about 3/4" apart and 1.5" high.

"Dad," I said, "there's nothing wrong with my ammo - you need new glasses!" He could not see that two inch black bull through a four power scope at 70 yards! I'm not sure how he survived driving, but he was in the mountains (East of Front Royal, VA) and there wasn't much traffic.

[BamaNapper]

Not sure of your dad's age or how his eyes are, but I had something similar at about 60. It's apparently about that age that a lining in the eye begins to detach from the back of the lens. Normally it detaches cleanly and is absorbed by the fluid in the eye. With mine, it detached, but held on for a few months right at the center of the lens. The ophthalmologist could explain it much better.

Anyway, what I was experiencing was a distortion and blurring right at the very center of my vision, maybe the size of one character on the computer screen at arms length. It improved over a few months and finally was completely gone. I had several times when I experienced not being able to see the bullseyes at the range as small things in the very center of my vision just disappeared. I had to look just off center enough to see it and line up my shots. It was an aggravation but the alternative was to have them cut my eye open to detach it, or give me a shot into the eye to dissolve the lining. I'd rather not have scalpels or needles in my eye if I can avoid it. My eyes were fine the whole time and my glasses prescription never changed.

[smithnframe]

I know exactly how you feel! Where in PA are you? I used to live in the Shamokin/Mount Carmel area!

[Handloader109]

Yeah, It's a great feeling. I was so nearsighted that I had a hard time finding the glasses on the bedside table. I got lasik surgery about 16 years ago. Great to be without full time glasses. Just need readers now.

[444ttd]

I know exactly how you feel! Where in PA are you? I used to live in the Shamokin/Mount Carmel area!

windber, i'm about a three+/- hour drive to the southeast. my grandfather had a camp just along penns creek, upstream of coburn. i knew of few guys(forget the names, but know the faces) that fished penns creek that came from shamokin.