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Offline hoosierdome

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Peep sights and reading glasses
« on: July 26, 2009, 10:26:23 AM »
I’m over 50 now, and need reading glasses. Regular iron sight didn’t work for me anymore. Someone told me to try a peep sight, the eye focus is different. Anyone out there who needs reading glasses and using peep sight with success?

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Re: Peep sights and reading glasses
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2009, 12:17:44 PM »
Iam over 60,and wear glasses full time and just put a Williams FP-H&R TK on my H&R Buffalo Classic and am very happy with it.
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Re: Peep sights and reading glasses
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2009, 12:22:47 PM »
Don't you concentrate your focus on the front sight, either way?  If so, I can't see how it would matter.  Maybe I am mistaken.

Haven't shot a peep sight since I left the Reserves in 1994.

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« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2009, 12:38:22 AM »
     I use a peep sight quite a lot and it DOES make a good bit of difference.  Don't expect a major miracle, just some better.  I had some success for a while using low power reading glasses....i.e.... I used 2X to read and 1X to shoot with.  It gave me a decent sight picture on the front sight, but wasn't strong enough to completely obliterate the target.  About ten years ago I had laser surgery in both eyes and gained enough vision to be able to clear up the sights pretty good, especially with handguns or peep sighted rifles.  Only problem...it was my left eye...yes, I was a right handed shooter.  Notice I said was.  I've always shot scoped guns a lot, but I just refused to accept the fact that I had to.  The panic hit at about age 50 or maybe even a little before...I'm now 65 and think I'm better with open sights than I ever was.  Don't give up!!!
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Re: Peep sights and reading glasses
« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2009, 10:23:57 AM »
+1 on what Hoppy said!  I'm 64 and getting back into handgun and lever guns.  Since 'scopes on lever guns are an abomination, and I can't see open sights, I went to tang and peep sights.

An improvement, but the front sight was still out of focus.  I then tried 1X reading glasses and I can see the sights and the target.  Now I'm gonna try knocking the lens out of the left side of the glasses and shooting with both eyes open!   ;D
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Re: Peep sights and reading glasses
« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2009, 12:11:40 PM »
I’m over 50 now, and need reading glasses. Regular iron sight didn’t work for me anymore. Someone told me to try a peep sight, the eye focus is different. Anyone out there who needs reading glasses and using peep sight with success?

I have 2010 in my right eye, and 2020 in my left, BUT! At 60 years old I need reading glasses real bad. Put a peep sight on the rifle and the problem goes completly away for the most part. A slightly different size aperture may be necessary for shorter length barrels as it does on my Model 94 3030 carbine, in adverse to my Model 92 rifle with a 24" barrel.
You can prove this to YOURSELF simply by using your thumb and forefinger to make a small hole to look thru, and you can read a newspaper thru it. When I am out in the field and have not brought along my reading glasses I use this method to look at very small details. It has become habit, and if I am not careful I have caught myself using it in stores to read labels. Embarrassing when you realize someone is watching trying to figure out what the hell your doing. :-[ You can literally make a pair of glasses with black lenses and small holes for each eye and read very fine print. Try the aperture sight, and you will be pleasantly surprised.
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Re: Peep sights and reading glasses
« Reply #6 on: July 28, 2009, 02:16:56 AM »
i agree with Dee....try mounting your peep sighted rifle but don't look thru the aperature at the front sight then move your head slightly so you can see the front sight thru the aperature....it will be much clearer when you look thru the hole,makes your eye focus on the front sight

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Re: Peep sights and reading glasses
« Reply #7 on: July 28, 2009, 03:57:24 AM »
Thanks for the information. I 'm going to buy one and give it a try.

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Re: Peep sights and reading glasses
« Reply #8 on: July 28, 2009, 10:36:28 AM »
I'm 57, and what I've found helps at the range is:

HAWKEYE® SHOOTERS OPTIC AID

    * Manufacturer:LYMAN
    * Price:$19.95

This is a little aperture that suction cups onto your glasses and helps with depth of field. You can't use it hunting, but it does help with target shooting.

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Re: Peep sights and reading glasses
« Reply #9 on: July 28, 2009, 10:41:51 AM »
I had given up and gone to scopes until I bought a Buffalo Classic.  Now I'm looking at aperture sights on a couple of other guns.  I tried scopes on the BC, but have gone back to the aperture.  It works!
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Re: Peep sights and reading glasses
« Reply #10 on: July 28, 2009, 11:43:43 AM »
Mechanic,same here,started out as a young man,could shoot anything with open sites,then as I got older went to everthing scoped,now with my B.C. am going to peep sites and having more fun experimnting with them.
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Re: Peep sights and reading glasses
« Reply #11 on: July 28, 2009, 01:24:17 PM »
Put's the shootin back into shootin, for all you old farts don't it? ;D
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Re: Peep sights and reading glasses
« Reply #12 on: July 28, 2009, 02:09:55 PM »
i'm 57...a fairly young fart ;)

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Re: Peep sights and reading glasses
« Reply #13 on: July 28, 2009, 02:16:20 PM »
Old is a state of mind.  Yesterday for instance, when the pretty little nurse was attending to me, I was about 25 for a few minutes.  Later I was about 85.  The DMV thinks I am 55.  Who knows?
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« Reply #14 on: July 28, 2009, 02:19:29 PM »
The DMV has documented that I am 60.
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Re: Peep sights and reading glasses
« Reply #15 on: July 29, 2009, 12:41:12 AM »
    I don't understand why a teenager like me has this ragged old body wrapped around me????????? ??? ::) ??? ;D ;D ;)