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Old 05-09-2008 | 06:15 AM
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Default Learning to shoot and hunt with glasses.

I have been having some accuracy issues lately. Normally a 30 yd group for me has a danger of busted nocks and vanes being shot off. Lately a group that is 6" in much more likely. My vision has been deteriorating for the past few years. I'm getting old [:@]. Last evening I was changing my pins around from where they were set for turkey hunting back to where they need to be for deer and hogs. Anyway, I had my reading glasses on. I need them to do most anything these days. After making an adjustment on the Spott-Hogg I forgot to take the glasses off to shoot. I was pretty surprised by the clarity of my sight picture. My pins were crystal clear and the bag target was just a bit out of focus. My groups tightened right up. I knocked a vane off with my 3rd shot.
I had forgotten to take the glasses off once before a couple of years ago and couldn't see to shoot at all. I thought there was no way I could ever use them to shoot better. I guess with the passing of time my vision got bad enough for the glasses to really matter. I will continue to shoot with the glasses on now. Or at least until I get to the eye doctor. I have considered Lasik surgery. Have any of you tried that? Maybe contacts are the answer for me? I'll ask the Dr.
How will wearing glasses effect my hunting? I don't want to worry about glasses fogging up when I finally have a shot at a mature buck. what do you glasses wearers do about that kind of thing?
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