Why do I always go partially blind after shooting?
this happens to me every time, after a good shooting session through the scopes I have very poor and blurry vision for quite a wile. dose anyone know why this happens or any way to keep it from happing?:
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Stop looking at the sun through your scope
Thanks Mike, you the man ❗
that has got to be the easiest and most straight forward way of adjusting the bell I think I have ever read, I will defiantly give that a try and see if it helps.
I have been doing it basically the opposite, I set the parallax at the shortest rang, stair at something I know is that far away and adjust to clear the reticule up, I’ll bet it way off….
Hey GTBJ!
There are probably several things going on. It is even worse with wearing contacts.
Hope this will help.
1. Shoot with both eyes open. It this us a big plus when hunting. So practice the way you hunt.
2. Properly pre focus your scope.
A. Set the scope parallax on infinity. Point it at the sky and focus the BACK focus ring on the ocular bell ( Rear Lens) until the cross hair is crystal clear while blinking your eye. You want it crisp when you first glance thru it. If it takes 1 to 2 seconds, it is wrong.
3. Now set the parallax adjustment. set it at its highest power while aiming at known distance. Set the parallax at this distance. If it is slightly blurry, very lightly adjust the rear focus ring. But not to the point of blurring the reticle. If it does blur, you know that the parallax is incorrectly marked. You will have to go with the mark not marked accurately. This is VERY common on cheaper scopes.
4. On many lesser quality scopes, the objective -erector lens, and the ocular lens may not be in perfect alignment. This can cause serious eye fatigue. It is just the nature of the beast.. this is much more noticeable in lower quality binos that don’t have the tubes aligned with each other. Super headache time after a long day in the field. 🙁
Mike
Shoot with both eyes open. There was a article about sniper schools teaching this a few months back in ‘GUNS’ magazine. There are a lot of benefits to it.
Your eye will adjust on it’s own, but it helps to adjust the rear focus ring to as clear as possible when you immediately put your eye to it. Less strain on your eyes. Works for me.
I agree. This is a likely source of eye fatigue and the longer you shoot the worse it will get. I would check the diopter setting again as the scope manual suggests which is usually to point the scope at a plain surface like a wall and then look through it, if the reticle is not immediately in focus, you need to adjust. Your eye will adjust quickly so go by your instant impression.
I thought most people shot with both eyes open? I do atleast.
Yep, I’ll be giving that a ‘shot’ never really tried it that way.
I thought most people shot with both eyes open? I do atleast.
I’d say it’s just your eyes compensating back from working with the scope’s magnification all day.
Kinda similar to when I wear my yellow-tint shotting glasses for a while… when I take them off, everything has kind of a blue tint to it. I was told that the yellow causes the eyes to focus more on one light spectrum than the others, so afterwards, the eyes need a chance to “realign” to the normal wavelenghts.
Thanks for all the suggestions, you found me out mike I do need to try and stop touching my self in funny ways wile shooting, it could become very dangerous as well as painful if I get going a bit too crazy and start taking out my frustrations, not to mention the groups open way up that rhythm is hard to time with the back side of my hart beat. 😛
I have the bell in good focus most of the time, it dose move around a bit too easy but still stays fairly good.
I’ve acutely been working on keeping both eyes open, it works good for a wile then it comes to a point were the two sight pitchers start to merge and my poa ends up high and to the right, I shut my left eye down for a bit and then I’m able to shoot with both open for another five minutes, then it’s back, I keep trying it though.
I don’t know, it’s probably just from so much concentration going on with the eyes that they aren’t use to, it never happens when hunting just when I’m staring at a tiny little dot on a pice of paper twitching for long periods of time.
Try to get use to shooting with both eyes open..Hard at first but well worth the effort….
There are a ton of indicators for holdover and windage that you can see with your left eye…
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Glad it helps GTBJ!
You can indeed fine adjust with the method you listed once the parallax has been set with the infinity method. Just be sure to do the fine adjustment with the ocular ring rather than the objective focus (OR Side focus) when you first calibrate (fancy for adjust) the scope.
Once it is set for your eyes, the parallax adjustment is mostly all you will use in the future. As a side benefit, most quality parallax adjustable scopes will now range find for you. 😀
Mike