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Poco Loco

On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 12:45:10 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 12:00:20 -0400, Poco Loco
wrote:

On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 09:46:28 -0400, BAR wrote:

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On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 20:04:38 -0400, Wayne.B
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On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 18:36:52 -0400, Poco Loco
wrote:

Virtually all of the serious target shooters that I know use a scope.
At 100 yards it is difficult just getting on the paper consistently
without one. With a good rifle, good scope and good ammo, you can
shoot 1 inch groups inside the 10 ring.

I would most likely never be a *serious* target shooter. My eyes
aren't good enough for that. I go to the range only because I enjoy
shooting. I haven't really shot a rifle since early Army days with the
M-14. I was very good with it.

In Vietnam I fired the M-16 only a few times. More or less for
familiarization. My First Sergeant and I would go out to the local
laterite pit and practiced on beer cans.

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A good scope can compensate for just about everything except cataracts
or macular degeneration. Just turn the focus ring until everything is
sharp. Cataracts can be fixed with surgery of course.

This is the one I use on my customized Ruger 10/22 for CMP competiton
at 50 yards:

http://www.amazon.com/Monarch-Riflescope-4-16x42SF-Matte-BDC/dp/B000OZU92K

I used two other scopes prior to the Nikon until I found one I liked.
The others both had excessive parallax error. From the prone position
I can now shoot 97s and 98s with 30 or 40% in the "X" ring.

I've got a cataract in my right eye. Also, I'm right handed, and don't
want to learn to shoot a rifle left handed.

When I get the right eye operated on, it's my understanding I have to
choose between near and far vision. Which would be best for shooting?
Now I'm using my right eye, but the front sight is pretty blurry,
along with the target. However, with a handgun I can switch to my left
eye without much problem.

The question you need to answer is do I want to watch TV or do I want to
drive a car? Drive a car distance, watch TV near distance. If you are
specifically talking about shooting you need to state whether you are
right handed or left handed and that will determine which eye you should
get fixed to enable you to see the front sight.

Thanks, Bill. I said in the previous I was right handed. The eye that
needs work is the right eye. So the choice is - a clear front sight or
a clear target.

My left eye is still good for distance.

My eyes swapped in my late 20s
When I was young my left eye was dominant but my right became the
dominant one later.
I didn't realize it until I was shooting skeet a lot.
The exercise is to point at something with your finger at arms length.
Then alternate closing each eye and see which one is actually cueing
on the point.

I've done it using a small hole (1") in a piece of paper as a viewing
window. I'm right-eye dominant. I'd think the left eye would take over
as the vision is much better in that eye.