ClarkEMyers

I asked about color on the New Member side and there seems to be no single choice. Given that the colors for shotgun sports mostly work I think by blurring the background so the moving bird stands out I decided not to go with color. I have no desire to blur the background shooting practical stages with movement. If I had the money to experiment with color it would have been a light orange as worn in pictures by Michael Bane and Julie Golob among others. My own choice is clear rather than colored for prescription though I'd try some colored lenses if they were cheaper - I could use non-prescription or colored lenses in front of a prescription insert I suppose but when I tried that I didn't like it either. I'm getting mil-spec safety glasses with interchangeable lenses; a set of single vision focused for infinity and a single lens for the dominant eye at iron sight distance to swap in. Iron sight distance is not ideal for my red dot sights but I'm unable to find a perfect distance for the red dot sights I have. I've tried Vaseline and such to blur the non-dominant eye and I can imagine trying to in effect switch dominance with a frosted effect on the off-eye though with pistols shooting cross eyed has worked for some.

XX2i and Bud Decot and a world of vendors will sell shooting glasses in fancy colors - I can even get a handle on some of the colors for known shotgun events. Shooting orange clay birds against a dark evergreen background is one thing; other combinations of birds and background shooters favor other colors. I have no idea what might be helpful for cardboard on a square range or in a farmer's field or drought stricken outdoor range. I also have no idea about cowboy action iron. There's something to be said trying one of each but I'd like prescription lenses with the dominant eye set for the front sight and the off eye set for infinity so I can't afford to try too many. I tried inserts with interchangeable lenses and didn't like those much at all but enough to decide there may be some benefits. The interchangeable lens wasn't up to constant swapping or I was too clumsy or the plastic was too cold. Anybody have opposite experience?. Mostly in the field, on TV or DVD I see dark glasses or clear glasses. Shooter's yellow seems to have fallen out of favor? Michael Bane wears some sort of orange on his Panteo dvd's and Youtube shooting the IDPA classifier with Tom Yost. Any other big names known to use a light tint?

I do believe the instructions speak of about 5 settling shots for common pistols such as a 1911. The reference to 20 settling shots is for pistols that might give trouble - that is perhaps squirm around in the holder and as the instructions say settle deeper with more settling shots - these are mostly polymer like the Glock - harder to hold by compression and squeezing doesn't help or something like a Super 14 Contender in a powerful cartridge with all the weight and leverage of a long heavy barrel and lots of energy. The suggested plywood base with three C-clamps holding it to a permanent bench at the range may be upped to 4 C-clamps or some more rigid arrangement with problem setups. Dean Grennell had a custom setup with a small bench just big enough for the rest and a big board on the bottom he could drive a wheel from his car on to hold it all down. The only issue I'm aware of with a single stack is sometimes an ambi safety with an off side extension may not fit the holder well - then again a given pistol may do just fine. It is certainly true that there is an art to getting best accuracy from a pistol in a Ransom Rest - I'm inclined to believe that relative results are fine for the same user as when testing relative accuracy of rimfire ammunition brands but it is certainly true that one of the greats in the 1911 field has his pistols shot from the rest by a friend - the better shot hand held gets bigger groups from the rest. For this and other reasons I'm not sure how much can be drawn from different range sessions and different shooters but there is no competition for the Ransom and for some purposes it's well worth the time and effort. A Ransom Rest and sky screend help a lot loading hot cartridges like the 9x23 and .460 Rowland in my experience - YMMV.