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Ok, I need some assistance from all of you pistol gurus. My eyesight has gotten to the point where I cannot see the rear and front sight clearly enough for a proper sight picture. Without putting on a sight that would make a pistol overly bulky, or heavy, what other kind of sights are out there that I could put on a decent pistol (say, a M&P 9 C.O.R.E.) in order to shoot accurately? Thanks, guys.

Gord
 
Instead of changing the gun, change your eyesight. Get yourself some shooting glasses - designed specifically for the type of shooting you are doing. I am bifocal and without any glasses I have trouble seeing the gun let alone the sights. I use the same glasses for shooting that I use for the computer. A bit weaker than what I need for reading. The whole lens is at the needed focus not just the bottom half. The big thing is to get the front sight in focus. if you can do that it doesn't matter as much about the rear sight or target. You can even get a pair of glasses that have your dominant eye at the right focal length and the other one with your normal lenses and just use them for shooting.
 
If you are just far sighted why not get your eyes checked and buy a set or prescription glasses? I had a set of shooting glasses made up for me that had my eyes in focus to the front sight. The correction still allowed me to see a relatively clear target at distance but set up a clear front and rear sight picture. I would suggest an Optic sighted pistol but if you have cataracts or some other eye issue the dot may appear fuzzy.

I would suggest a trip to an eye doctor and then go from there.

Take Care

Bob
 
Hi Gord,
If you already wear glasses, stick a piece of dark tape over the shooting eye's glass. make a small hole (1/16th ) in the tape, level with the center of your eye. and you will be able to see both sights very clearly. In true target shooting style, the bull's eye is supposed to look a little paler black ( blurry).
You may try the same with a piece of cardboard that has a small hole ( 1 mm) in it , through which you look with your shooting eye. Hold the piece of card board very close to your eye with one hand while you shoot with the other hand.
Try this to make sure that it works before you buy shooting glasses with an adjustable iris for best results.
 
A common problems as you get older.

I have a set of glasses specifically for shooting.

The dominant eye (in my case right) is set to focus on the front sight of my handguns. This is also about right for the front sight of long guns. The weak eye is focused on distance. The focus of the back sight is not very good but this is the least important of the three. Seems to work pretty well for me and my eyesight is BAD.
 
There are 3 possible solutions:

1) prescription eyeglasses that allow you to focus on the front sight. Rudy Project has Rx inserts available for many of their glasses which allow you to change the outer shield and keep the Rx behind- you can pick from a variety of lenses this way.
2) get a RDS installed on your pistol. Many new pistols incorporate the mount directly into the slide.
3) all of the above.

A very good IPSC shooter I know considers his prescription glasses some of his most vital shooting gear.
 
Yep, I'm soon to be 67 years old. Didn't need glasses for shooting (iron sights) when I was younger. Recently went back to pistol shooting - couldn't see the sights with or without glasses.
My distance vision is still OK but I need 2.5+ reading glasses for computer or paper work. The focal length of my 2.5 reading glasses I too short for pistol shooting. To see pistol sights (iron) clearly, I've got to use 1.75 o 2.0 readers.
Some safety glass mfr's do make "full lens" safety glasses - the bi-focal ones made me tip my head back to see - not comfortable.
 
I had my safety glass inserts set for the length of my arm plus the front sight of my pistol and that worked for me. I have great distance vision...not so hot out to 3'.

Take Care

Bob
 
Canuck44 said:
I had my safety glass inserts set for the length of my arm plus the front sight of my pistol and that worked for me. I have great distance vision...not so hot out to 3'.

Take Care

Bob
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That is about what I did.
The oculist measured the distance from my eye to the front sight and I got contact lenses made accordingly.
 
I feel your pain, have glasses too and my issue now is not just getting front sight focused, but getting it refocused in a timely manner when transitioning targets (IDPA/IPSC stuff) - going RDS, fack it.
 
Old time bulls eye and ipsic shooter things went south a few years ago was shooting blind got by with proper form and experience and a lot of luck . Got my peepers checked had the cataracts removed no more glasses 20-20 vision I can now shoot the irons as well as I shoot the dot sights. A eye exam worked for a old bugger like me.
 
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