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Shelldrake

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Anyone with personal experience with laser eye surgery? I would be interested in getting some info with respect to how it affected your shooting abilities,, either pro or con.
 
had mine done in 97 or 98 and would do it again without hesitation. Wish I'd done it sooner.
 
Sort of related... At the BCRA shoot this weekend I got to test an idea that I had last week. There is enought diopter and parallex adjustment in the Leupold MK4 LR/T for me to shoot it from 50m to 600m without my eyeglasses and there was no noticeable shift if the POI.
 
Kinda old post... but Ill reply anyway.

I had mine done almost 1.5 years ago - LASIK
I had to get the right eye re-done 6 month later because it went out of spec again :(

Now I am kinda happy with it, however it's a tradeoff.

Your vision will never be a clear/perfect as it was with a brand new set of glasses.
However, you no longer need glasses ;)

Night vision suffers as well... for instance if I look at an LED Clock in total darkness it looks very weird (Numbers starburst all over)

As I said it is a tradeoff... I love not needing glasses and I like haveing great peripheral vision. However, the quality of my vision was superior with glasses - with that said I am 20/20 in both eyes, but the quality has lessened.

Hard to understand until you go through the process.

Would I recommend it? Sure... as long as you realise the above trade-off
Oh, and its not a go in walk out and you are cool procedute like they want you to think... your eyes are sore and dry for many months afterwards (at least mine were).

I went back to say my eyes still felt weird after a week and the surgeon said "What do you expect... you had your eye operated on... it'll take years to heal." (complained about the LED at night) <sigh>

~Cheers
 
Interesting.

I've not had mine done (though my wife wonders why and suggests that I do) because I don't want to lose what I have now.

I'm a pretty decent shot with my glasses, I don't want to risk my vision, yet.

NS
 
I'm also in the not worth risking it boat... I've known of a couple of cases where it didn't go well. For times when I really can't do the glasses but need to see well I use disposible contacts.
 
Had mine done just over a year ago. Best money I've ever spent and my only regret is not doing it 5 years earlier. Had night starbursts and dry eyes for a while but eventually that went away. 20/20 now and life is good.
 
starbursts typically only last a couple months, max 6 months. do not get lasik if you are a shooter. get the touchless, I don't know of a single surgeon who would do a shooters eye's with Lasik, in all of the brochures I saw they all specifically said not to get the surgery if you do "impact sports" including shooting.
 
Slavex said:
starbursts typically only last a couple months, max 6 months. do not get lasik if you are a shooter. get the touchless, I don't know of a single surgeon who would do a shooters eye's with Lasik, in all of the brochures I saw they all specifically said not to get the surgery if you do "impact sports" including shooting.
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How come? Is it for the possible damage from concussion/recoil?

I've been trying to talk myself into it. I made the mistake of watching a friend's video of them getting it done. Made my eyes friggin water. I know quite a few people who have had RK, PRK, & Lasik and there have not been too many bad reports. Pretty well everybody is satisfied.
 
from what I was told by a surgeon who does both, with Lasik they cut the cornea (I think) back, and make it a flap. Then when it's out of the way they do the burn, then fold it back down. where it heals is forever a weak spot and under impact and such it can open up. The other way is to burn it right off so it grows back, no weak spot. that's sort of the easy version. I talked to 11 different surgeons before I did mine, they all said the same thing, or nearly the same thing. the only one who didn't say, "Don't do lasik" was the one who only did lasik.
 
how bad does it affect your night vision because that was the main thing i am worried about
 
at first I had some starburst around street lights and such, at night, but after about 6 months, nothing at all. so it didn't affect it at all.
 
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