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Getting old is not for sissies.
One of the worst parts is your eyes failing.
Harvey has worn glasses her whole life, so she's used to using them to see, but shooting is its own thing.
Today I suggested she use the reading section of her bifocals to focus on the front sight, telling her, "it's OK if the target is blurry."
Her groups tightened up immediately!
Looks like she's following me into the abyss and getting a set of glasses just for shooting with her reading prescription where her head is comfortable.
Search for an optician who, if not catering to shooters, at least understands their needs. Way back when, I had one who told shooters to bring their rifles and pistols in around closing time, he'd open his back door and set whatever target you brought out in the building hallway at a measured 25 yards or open the outside door at the end of the hallway and set it out in the parking lot for 50 yards. Assume a shooting position and he would mark the lens point you were looking through to get the astigmatism axis in exactly the right place, and place additional lenses in front of yours in half-diopter steps to get the front sight in perfect focus. He made me a set of 3 Calichrome lenses (a pure yellow optically perfect glass made by Bausch and Lomb, long discontinued because of the cost), the left to my regular prescription, one right lens with the astigmatism axis upper left for rifle and the other with the axis centered L-R and slightly below center top-to-bottom, both right lenses +1.75 diopters. Couldn't walk in them, but worked great for shooting.
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