Originally Posted by
Allen
I still like open sights. On a rifle it doesn't seem to matter since I am concentrating on a target far away and the sights just seem to align themselves. On pistols it's another story. At close range targets (squirrels) I try to focus on the object, the rear sight and the front sight at the same time. It is a pain for me to see the dark front sight in less than brilliant sunlight so I switched over to pistol's with the red ramp sight. Helped me. As far as scopes go I like Leupold because the eye relief is like 4-5" and easy to sight with where the cheaper scopes may have a 2-3" relief and by the time you get everything focused just right your target is long gone.
If you're bumping 50 and just now having eye problems you are lucky. Immediately after I turned 40 my close up vision started to go. I had to start using reading glasses to read anything at all. Then I had to start going to stronger strengths on the glasses. Finally I went to the doctor expecting the worse fearing I had cataracts. After the exam and telling the doc what was going on he laughed and said "turned 40 huh?".