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<blockquote data-quote="Muddyboots" data-source="post: 1792764" data-attributes="member: 63925"><p>OMG, I am not alone! I am 69, had cataract surgery in 2012 and best thing that ever happened to my shooting! Use readers but distance is 20/15 and clear as it a bell! I did noticed I had to reset all my optics since I thought they were leveled but not really due to my cataract skewing the level line and parallax etc. I have never shot better than I am right now. I had the best year of deer hunting of my life killing 3 really nice bucks. Yes, I killed them and no I did not harvest them. They were on the ground and not in trees. All my shots were as perfect as I could have asked for. I do realize one very important aspect of getting old. I have to spend a lot more time at the range to maintain the eye/hand coordination than I use to when younger. More range time is not a bad thing by the way! I found myself practicing more with my Bog sticks than just off the bench. I still love my Sendero 300WM with 200AB and shoot my 51 year old Savage 110 .270Win for grins since I re-barreled it last year. I have severe back issues but walking this past summer 7-9 miles several days a week prepped for elk hunt that was snowed out but still keeping in shape. The older I have gotten the more I realize I have to work at being in shape both with physically and with rifles year round or else everything goes "south" real fast.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Muddyboots, post: 1792764, member: 63925"] OMG, I am not alone! I am 69, had cataract surgery in 2012 and best thing that ever happened to my shooting! Use readers but distance is 20/15 and clear as it a bell! I did noticed I had to reset all my optics since I thought they were leveled but not really due to my cataract skewing the level line and parallax etc. I have never shot better than I am right now. I had the best year of deer hunting of my life killing 3 really nice bucks. Yes, I killed them and no I did not harvest them. They were on the ground and not in trees. All my shots were as perfect as I could have asked for. I do realize one very important aspect of getting old. I have to spend a lot more time at the range to maintain the eye/hand coordination than I use to when younger. More range time is not a bad thing by the way! I found myself practicing more with my Bog sticks than just off the bench. I still love my Sendero 300WM with 200AB and shoot my 51 year old Savage 110 .270Win for grins since I re-barreled it last year. I have severe back issues but walking this past summer 7-9 miles several days a week prepped for elk hunt that was snowed out but still keeping in shape. The older I have gotten the more I realize I have to work at being in shape both with physically and with rifles year round or else everything goes "south" real fast. [/QUOTE]
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