boss281
Ultimate Member
I guess this is just more of a vent than anything, but my slowly failing eyesight (nearsightedness) is really getting in the way of enjoyment when shooting my pistols. Since I use either red dots or magnifying optics on my ARs, I don't have that problem bulleye shooting or run n gun, but the pistols are frustrating.
When shooting at 10 yards in an in door range:
With my distance prescription, I have a fuzzy sight alignment, although in general I can get it squared away enough. Takes some concentrating though. With clear lenses, I have great alignment but the sight picture is fuzzy and I can barely discern a bulleye area on the target. With my fancy dominant side eye clear/weak side eye distance prescription I get dizzy and can't yet make it work with both eyes open. I tried several types of ammo (all 124g) and shot about 80% in a 5" circle, with the strays all drifting to 8 o'clock.
At 15 to 25 yards, fuhgetaboutit.
One thing that occurred to me is that the inside of the range lighting isn't real bright (I mean, it's ok, but not BRIGHT). When I got home I set up a target outside, measure off 30 feet, and dry fired the targets with my three eyeglass setups. Clear and distance prescription seemed better, the fancy prescription a mind numbing head spin.
The pistol is a CZ 75 P-01 bone stock and my work carry pistol, so the DA and SA trigger have a bit more creep than I like and I jerked a couple of times for some reason. The sights on this thing are basic and need upgrading as well. I've got the Cajun Gun Works Defensive Carry Package (decocker version) that fixes some of the trigger issues, and look forward to pulling the gun apart and getting the new parts in. I still haven't decided on which sights to try yet.
Bullseye marksmanship aside, it will be interesting to see how well I can compete in USPSA this year, my first year to actually start getting scored. I may be 60, but I hear it's the new 40 so I'm not giving up until I can't crawl anymore...
When shooting at 10 yards in an in door range:
With my distance prescription, I have a fuzzy sight alignment, although in general I can get it squared away enough. Takes some concentrating though. With clear lenses, I have great alignment but the sight picture is fuzzy and I can barely discern a bulleye area on the target. With my fancy dominant side eye clear/weak side eye distance prescription I get dizzy and can't yet make it work with both eyes open. I tried several types of ammo (all 124g) and shot about 80% in a 5" circle, with the strays all drifting to 8 o'clock.
At 15 to 25 yards, fuhgetaboutit.
One thing that occurred to me is that the inside of the range lighting isn't real bright (I mean, it's ok, but not BRIGHT). When I got home I set up a target outside, measure off 30 feet, and dry fired the targets with my three eyeglass setups. Clear and distance prescription seemed better, the fancy prescription a mind numbing head spin.
The pistol is a CZ 75 P-01 bone stock and my work carry pistol, so the DA and SA trigger have a bit more creep than I like and I jerked a couple of times for some reason. The sights on this thing are basic and need upgrading as well. I've got the Cajun Gun Works Defensive Carry Package (decocker version) that fixes some of the trigger issues, and look forward to pulling the gun apart and getting the new parts in. I still haven't decided on which sights to try yet.
Bullseye marksmanship aside, it will be interesting to see how well I can compete in USPSA this year, my first year to actually start getting scored. I may be 60, but I hear it's the new 40 so I'm not giving up until I can't crawl anymore...
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