Know what you are saying, Dave...I've got the Hi-Viz sights on my muzzleloader and turkey gun, and I see four (4)! Count 'em, four...in the rear, but at least I know to put the One on the front between that four...(at least there are two on each side)! LOL..

Thanks for the tip when it gets to that stage....(maybe it has?)

I'm 31 and that rear sight is getting real fuzzy. What's the average age that this starts happening? I'm turning into my dad waaay too quickly....

I don't know what this interpupilary thing is but as an eyeglass wearer I can say iron sight are the only thing giving me problems. Scopes, red dots no sweat. In fact if I break my glasses out hunting I may stumble to an from my blind but when I look through the scope everythings clear as a bell. I haven't asked other prescription wearers if thats their exprerience.

Dave,

Eight years ago I spent 3200 bucks for inside the ear hearing aids. Quit using them after about a year because they irritated my ears and they also amplified background noise so I still could not understand the tv.
Recently I had to see an Ear, Nose and Throat specialist about my broken nose. She noticed my bad hearing and fitted me for new hearing aids that are fantastic. Made by VOZ they are tiny and don't irritate the ear hole. She programed them on her computer so they only amplify the frequencies you can't hear. Now I can understand what everyone is saying. After seeing how good I hear with them my wife didn't even blink when I said $4800 bucks for two of them. Mind you she is a frugal woman and would have hit the roof if it was another gun haha. Anyway check VOZ out. But see a Ear Nose & throat DR not the Wally World hearing aid office. Did that the first time and wasted 3200 bucks.
BTW any of you guys interested in some slightly used hearing aids?

My solution was to make sure you get a scope with the "astigmatism" adjustment. If you don't know (and for many years I didn't), its the ring on the front of the scope marked something like "0 -> [symbol for infinity]. For my air rifle and my Remington this works.

For 88Magnum; Actually that sounds correct. To this day I remember from my Corps training: "Sight alignment is when the clear tip of the front sight post is halfway up, and centered from left to right, in the fuzzy rear sight aperture".

in 2004 I got hydrocephalus from a brain tumor.it was removed in 2005, a "hemioblastoma". now I have double vision, corrected with glasses. my balance is terrible, use a cane or walker to get around.hopefully I can go deer hunting again someday. sigh

As best as I can remember none of the old gunfighters ever lived to be old except for Wyatt Earp. Must be another or two I'll have to look it up.
Fortunately I am one of the few who can tolerate monovision contact lenses. One eye sees up close while the other focuses at distant objects. Some people get used to this concept and it works quite well. I have had this process in place for a dozen or so years with little in the way of problems. The small problem is that old deal of seeing the front pistol sight and somehow making out where the target is located. To improve this situaiton my optometrist devised a different set of contact lens which are indicated on my chart as "for pistol shooting only". I always have to explain this to the receptionist when I pick up a couple new boxes of lenses. My Decots are ancient and have no prescription built in since I can't see a damn thing without one set of contacts or the other. I saw Cher on TV a few weeks ago and of course she looks as good as ever after considerable plastic surgery even at 62. She was asked how it feels to be getting old. Her reply was "It sucks". My feeling exactly.

My best friend when I was a kid had a rare condition that made it impossible for him to close his left eye by itself. He could close both at the same time, or just his right eye, but if he tried to close only his left the right closed as well.

Apparently he didn't tell anyone about his problem until he was ten or eleven, and by that time he had already started to compensate for it.

To shoot a scoped rifle he tilted the rifle to the left and laid over the side of it so he could use his left eye.

I guess he could have learned to shoot a left-handed rifle, but no one had one, and he had a bunch of brothers so his dad wasn't going to buy a gun that only he could use.

I guess he still shoots like that. I haven't seen him in years.

Wow Dave you got me on the squinting adjustment method. I made that work for 50 years and then my eyes fell off the face of the earth. Both slightly different and both required bi-focals...nice!
I got some presritpion glasses from Bausch & Lomb, but with long distance scopes, I still used naked eye and squinting. Two years ago I was stricken with sports injury related detached retina. I understand it occurs like old wallpaper blistering away from the wall, and the treatment is laser spot welding through your pupil.
Anyway, now I've had to get yet another set of prescription shooting glasses, and everything's fine. I will admit that keeping both eyes open with one having increasingly different optical characteristics than the other is a challenge. What I don't have and will never get back is a frame of reference to what my unaided eyesight used to be...all I know now is that I can focus and the right setup and concentration techniques are tried and true.
Thanks.

I am near sighted and wear trifocals. Not really a problem when shooting a shotgun since I barely notice the front bead when pointing the gun at a moving target.

However, it is a problem when trying to aim a hand gun or rifle with open sights. It's not quite so bad with a hand gun. I just tilt my head up a little to look through the middle lens of the trifocal. The rear and front sights are clear, although the target is a little fuzzy.

It's another story with an open sight rifle because I can't tilt my head up and maintain proper alignment of the front and rear sights. Since I also tend to shoot a rifle with both eyes open, I'm thinking about having a set of lenses made with the right lens the same prescription as the center lens of my trifocal to see the sights clearly and the left lens the same prescription as my top lens for distance. Do you think it is worth a try?

Well, pushing 50 here, Hearing is still good (Always wear ear muffs shooting anything bigger than a BB gun, other than hunting) and sight is OK wearing contacts. The contacts are for distance vision, so reading glasses are needed for close up stuff, or I can take out the contacts and see up to about a foot away clear as a bell, after that things go downhill FAST!
Not up to (down?) the cane or walker stage yet but do have trouble getting around. 200 yds is a long way into the woods for me. The further I can drive my truck into the woods the better!

Never been a one eye shooter, always have both open, I am able to switch back and forth which eye I'm looking thru "most", learned this when I was young. My Dad always insisted on using 2 eyes, said you got 2, use'em! Comes in real handy with a scope, I can be looking mostly thru the scope with sort of seeing the surroundings or concentrate on the left eye and see the whole woods and sort of see the scope view imposed upon this, great if you lose the target in the brush to get back onto the target instead of shrubbery. Then switch back to Rt eye view to shoot.
Your brain is receiving 2 separate images from your eyes and combining them into one, you can learn to separate them as well!
Can't see typical open sights well though, dand rear notch is too small, but a post and rear peep works great! Use a large rear peep/Ghostring and center the top of the front post in the middle of the big fuzzy circle. Works for me.
Handguns have to have 3 dot sights for the same reason, and a large rear notch as well.
The 44 I recently picked up has a v rear and a brass bead front sight, settle the bead in the bottom of the v seems to work pretty well on targets, we'll see how it works on game if I get the chance for a close shot this year.
I hunt mostly with the rifle but like the handgun for brushy spots, sling the rifle and get the pistol out, basically if I can't swing the rifle or see further than 50 yds the pistol comes out!
Wish me luck guys!

I have an artificial lens in one eye and prefer to avoid recoil in the future. Does anybody on this blog know how much recoil a semiauto rifle of a given weight, say, a Browning BAR, has compared to a bolt? It would seem to me that the best way to take care of your vision is not to wreck your retinas with recoil in the first place.

Most of my shooting is black-powder open-sights in the North-South Skirmish Assn ( http://www.n-ssa.org ), so presbyopic, astigmatic, 63-year-old eyes are part of the challenge.

Fortunately, our team has an optometrist who welcomes the carting of our muzzlestuffers, etc., into his office. The secret seems to be cranking up the shooting-eye prescription a quarter- or half-diopter above its normal range. That gives you the front sight clear, and leaves enough of the target out there in the fuzz to hit things with some regularity.

No, getting old definitely isn't for sissies. But so far, at least, it seems more to be desired than the alternative...