I've started shooting competitively again. This time, it's NRA High Power competition (with a big gun) rather than Smallbore. Of course, I'm still looking to pick up a decent Anschutz Super Match 54 as my finances recover (purely for winter practice you understand).
The big limitation I'm finding, which I've never had to deal with before, is that my eyes are getting presbyopic. Basically, the lens is hardening and my eye muscles are losing the ability to get my lens to change focus quickly. So when once I could shift focus between bull and aperture nearly instantaneously I can now see the change in focus happen. Indeed, I have to force my eye back to focusing on the front sight.
Which truly sucks as my skill hasn't deteriorated, and wind aside, I feel I should be at least capable of shooting at the Master level.
My most recent acquisition is a pair of Knobloch shooting glasses (schiess brillen). They should allow me to position a lens, adjusted to bring the front sight into focus, exactly in line with my eye and the apertures I'm looking through.
When I focus on the front sight, 1/2-1MOA groups seem easily possible. Without that, I'm all over the paper.
Posted by artandscience at October 12, 2009 06:48 AM