Originally Posted by
Topgun 3006
That's a pretty neat setup for that type of short range hunting up where you are! My eyes are so screwed up as I get older (20/400 without glasses and about 20/40 with) that I can't use anything but a scoped rifle. When the distances start increasing it's getting tougher every year out there even with the good Leupold scopes I have on everything. One of these years the Doc says I'm going to need cornea transplants and I also have cataracts in both eyes that thankfully have not enlarged over the last few years. If they do, I would also have to have surgery for those. Thank God the rest of my body is in the shape of a much younger person and I can still walk all day out there if needed.
When you get the corneal transplants spend the extra money and get the vision correction ones that are sometimes available depending on your eye issues. My mother had them and she can see very well without gasses. I wore glasses from the time I was around 25 until 6 years ago at 58 when I finally had the Lasik. Like you I am in pretty good shape for my age. Hunting and fishing keeps me young is my theory. I got that gun about 20 yars ago after talking with the whitetail hunting experts the Benoits at a seminar. Back then I was into Maine hunting pretty heavily and that set up is very well suited for the thick, tight shooting that the swamps and bogs of northern New England offer. Instead of hunting the mid west this next year I might try the big woods of the Adarondacks and will break out that carbine again.
Last edited by Champlain Islander; 12-14-2012 at 07:43 AM.