Aging Vision & open sights

[JiggyIi]

Hi I'm 55 and wear glasses. I'm finding it harder & harder to shoot open sights.. The sights get blurry especially the front one. I use buckhorn and peeps.
What do others do to help this problem??
Lol other than optics red dots

 

[wvbearhunter]

Have you tried fiber optics?

 

[JiggyIi]

Have you tried fiber optics?

Not on rifles, & most of my opens I put on small or filed down the sights so the front didn't take up 2 ft @ 100 yards lol when I didn't Have difficulty

 

[cajun]

Red dots lol.

 

[cajun]

The only other thing you can do is get glasses set for that focal distance.

 

[M1A1ABRAMS]

Hi I'm 55 and wear glasses. I'm finding it harder & harder to shoot open sights.. The sights get blurry especially the front one. I use buckhorn and peeps.
What do others do to help this problem??
Lol other than optics red dots

Model paint in fluorescent colors.

 

[JiggyIi]

The only other thing you can do is get glasses set for that focal distance.

Thank you!

 

[JiggyIi]

Model paint in fluorescent colors.

Thank you! I've used white out for typewriters when you can find it but it's temporary

 

[M1A1ABRAMS]

Thank you! I've used white out for typewriters when you can find it but it's temporary

WalMart sells these paints. Arts & crafts. You only need a little. It goes a long ways. Get some nice brushes while you're there.

 

[cajun]

I've tried the paint. It helps but it's not going to make it not blurry lol. I shoot optics on all my pistols now. That was the biggest problem for me. All my rifles have scopes on them.

 

[M1A1ABRAMS]

I've tried the paint. It helps but it's not going to make it not blurry lol. I shoot optics on all my pistols now. That was the biggest problem for me. All my rifles have scopes on them.

Just curious but did you try two separate fluorescent colors ? I like orange & yellow/green. Orange on the front & yellow or green in the back.

 

[Ross1147]

If you search on this site someone mentioned this about shooting a bow. Their 20 yds was on, 30 yds was 2" to the right, 40 yds was on. Come to find out the red fiber optic was off due to eye sight compared green. Well, this year it happened to me. I have a solid 25 yds pin, my second pin is red and it's a floating pin. I have a heck of time focusing the red pin. If you choose a color I'd go green or yellow.

 

[cajun]

Just curious but did you try two separate fluorescent colors ? I like orange & yellow/green. Orange on the front & yellow or green in the back.

No I did not. The thing with macular degeneration due to age everything close gets blurry. While high vis makes it easier to pick up it's still blurry. I don't think there is anyway to get around that without glasses or an optic.

 

[dwightb]

There was a company that made a black peep that stuck on your glasses. Looking through a small hole helped make both handgun sights in focus. All that changed when I had my cataracts removed! EDOF lens were not an option for me unfortunately.