A Smelly Day is Always a Good Day!

Yesterday I took out the Peashooter (trainer) and my No. 1.
Had fun…
At 100 metres, the Peashooter was difficult. I had the impression that the ammo had a great differential in speed from round to round. While at 50 it was ok, at 100…
Still… Only two guys with me at the range. All with milsurps. My people.
I left after one 50 box of .22LR and 15 rounds of .303. I felt happy and satisfied, so I just packed my stuff and kept chatting for a while.
Perfect day.
At home, two kiddos positive, one in doubt, wifey with headache but negative. I’m 100%.
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Not too bad for groups Ovidio, far better than I can do with iron sights these days.

Eyes have become an issue in the past 18 months.
I’m slowly recovering my accuracy. But there is still a long way to go.
The good thing is that I’m an obstinate guy.

Three kids positive. Youngsters beat parents 3-0. For now…

Great stuff!!


I'm staring down the barrel of incipient cataracts and am facing a choice: I've been nearsighted all my life and am used to it but hate the dead spots in my progressive lenses that are exactly what I look through when I have a proper cheek weld. When you have your lenses replaced in cataract surgery you can choose your correction but are usually limited to one problem or another - either nearsightedness or farsightedness, due to presbyopia (old eyes). Farsightedness would allow an easier shift between the front sight and the target but would be entirely a new world to me, especially because it work force me to use glasses for near focus.

I'll have to decide which way to go!

Bob

Seems like the time to change to optics has come?

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Originally Posted by Daan Kemp

change to optics

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I have scopes on everything now and shoot off sandbags as well. Much more satisfying then when I was throwing bullets into the backstop.

Daan, I'll try to get back to acceptable results with iron sights (takes a lot of concentration right now), but in the meantime, for my birthday in March I'll get the K98 I posted a couple months ago and put an optic to my current Yugo-captured one.
Just in case...

Has anyone here tried the eyepal patch you place on your shooting eye safety glass it is supposed to help your eye sharpen up all the detail I have them here but have not tried them on my 303's using the open sights for which they are designed.
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I've been using it for years now. 6 years.
I have both the one for handguns and the one for rifles.
They work very well.
I didn't mind paying a disproportionate (if I'm not wrong 25€) amount of money for a great idea.
Try them!

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What would be the difference from just closing that eye?

Hi Daan.
It is a very nice system to get more focal depth.
You don't have to squeeze the eye, just look through the small peephole very comfortably and have a much clearer sight picture.
I'm sure that the real diopters could be even way better, but it is a cheap and efficient way to get back in the saddle without going broke.

Thanks Ovidio I got the rifle ones for $40/Aud will have to dust of my 303's and get back into them.
But these dash'ed motor cycles we have are always wanting to be ridden on weekends and as my wife works Mon-Fri she only gets the weekend to ride her motor cycles which we do together, but lucky me I can scamper off to ride any day of the week.

You can't complain, Ron.
You have a wife who rides bikes and shoots. Or, if she doesn't shoot, she still doesn't hinder you.
Pretty much like me.
Sometimes I'd like to complain a bit, but then I feel so ashamed...
Damn... nothing to complain about!:lol:

Hi Ovidio,

where did you buy the Eyepal?

Regards from Austria

Hallo Franz, wenn ich mich recht erinnere, auf ebay.

Nice shooting sir!

Your dead right Ovidio I have really naught to complain about.
We have just got back from Walpole in the Southwest had a great blast on some very twisty roads with my V4S, the boy's complimented my wife on her good riding ability (With panniers on) of her Ducati Supersport S as her level of skill is such now I can flee the scene with the fast movers and not worry about her.
TBH that V4 is a weapon it just wants to be ridden hard its not easy to get control of that Rt wrist.

As for shooting we compare our scores and its not often I beat my wife as I shoot F open and she shoots F standard and full bore so when I beat her then I do stand on the top wire and crow a bit.:p

Good to see you are still out shooting . You are still welcome to come to Texas to hunt wild pigs . Texas has a big pig contest going on for the month of Feb . 77k for the largest pig shot . It should take about 400 lb to win . I got a 250 a night ago with thermal on a 30 AR . Your 303 target shows why the Enfield was never competitive in our military rifle matches , you would have needed all 5 shots to at least touch the center red dot . The only .22 target match we did was a BR-50 match . But it was with scoped match rifles at 50 yards . To win it a guy would have to hit a pin head size dot about every shot . That does not really compare much to what you did except to show just how well a match .22 could shoot at 50 if needed . Sorry to hear about your covid ills , where I am at in TX we have not had lock downs , vac mandates , or masks and not much problem with covid . Go truckers .

I’ll be in the good old US of A in September. Las Vegas, for our usual exhibition there. I’ll see to make a detour and come over, Bob. Thanks again!

I will put it on my calendar . There are low cost direct flights from LV to my town . You can spend a day or two on my ranch hunting hogs . I think the hardest part for you will be picking what rifle to use . It is for me as I will always bring at least six . I also have a private shooting range on the way for sight in or shooting what ever military rifle you would like to try .

Sight Without Glasses by Dr. Harold M. Peppard: Books - Amazon.ca A very interesting read from the era when it was accepted that everything in the body is in some sense connected to everything else, rather than the body being a sort of living Mecanno set whose pieces we can meddle with irrespective of all the others.

It seems there were other such practitioners as well: BOOKS - WEBSITES - Best Bates Method Natural Eyesight Improvement Training - Bates History

Screen time hurts old eyes probably even more than younger ones? Too much screen time linked to an epidemic of myopia among young people