Mike Z

I've never had a problem switching back and forth between shooting with one eye or both eyes open. For tactical shooting, I've always been able to shoot with both eyes open, but for fine target shooting, I like to close one eye.

AN UPDATE. After visiting the optometrist, I found that I actually needed 3 different prescriptons. ONe for my red dot bullseye guns, one for my open sight bullseye guns and a 3rd for my open site PPC guns. The solution I settled on was to buy a set of Jaggi Shooting Glasses from Champion Shooting Supply, with 2 extra lenses. I tried them out last night for the first time in a .22 indoor match. The things worked great. It was nice to be able to see my site. The only problem I had was the lab the optometrist sent the glasses to, set a "Piece of heavy equipment" on the frames and damaged a piece. Champions was great and got a new piece out to me the next day.

Robert, My .02. First, a good point wasa made above about switching to a 9mm. I would take it one step farther. Start with a heavy .38/.357 revolver with target loads, then work up to full loads. Convert to 9mm, then the .40. Stay with each level until you have resolved the flinch. A second trick is to start with magazines loaded with dummy rounds. Have a partner load a mag with one live round and the rest dummies. Slowly work you way up from 1 round to a full mag. All the time working on controlled firing. A sidebar, this is great practice for learning to quickly clear malfunctions.

Thanks for all of the great ideas. I am visiting my optomotrist tomorrow, and taking a couple of my PPC guns with me. I also will be taking infor regarding Champion and Jaggi shooting glasses with me. They seem to be willing to work with me on this. One of the opticians has a close relative who was an Olympic shotgun shooter so they sympathetic to my cause. Kimel, I did ask them about the friction lens that you mentioned. They seemed to thing that those would not be large enough, in other words the size of the lens would be restrictive, as when one is sighting a pistol, you tend to use quite a bit of the surface area of the lens to shoot from different positions.

Thanks for the ideas guys. The glasses that I had made for the red dot sight still work fine for that game. But many of the matches that I would still like to shoot are iron sight only and two hand hold which seems to reduce the sight distance. Does anyone have any experience with the Champion shooting glasses/frames. My Optometrist is willing to work with me, and has allowed me to take my gun in to work with. The only frame other than the Baush & Lomb that they were familiar with was the Zeiss, and that was about $1200.

OK guys, any suggestions on dealing with changing eyesight. Up until 3 years ago, my eyes were great. Then suddenly, everything changed. I had a special pair of glasses made for shooting bullseye with a red dot scope. When I tried using these same glasses in a PPC match, I could't even see my sights. No correction is no good either. Does someone make something that is infinitely adjustable for competitive shooting, rather than have to invest in a new prescription every time I want to try a different sport?

When trying to shoot precisely, minute pressures on the firearm can drastically change your point of impact. I would look at two areas. Thumb pressure and trigger finger pressure on (both on the trigger and on the side of the frame). NIK makes a good point about the thumbs. I would also look at the trigger pressure. I have a tough time with the trigger on the Glock because of the safety mechanism on the trigger. It creates a smaller bearing surface for me, and makes trigger control more difficult. I would practice dryfiring, using the pad of the finger on the bottom portion of the trigger. Remember, the trigger is a lever. Imagine that the trigger is a glass rod. Continue putting pressure on that rod until it snaps. Repeat this until you feel comfortabel that the trigger is coming straight back each time with no side pressure being exerted.

You need to add some additional information. Are you using a 1 or 2 hand hold? Are you shooting right or left handed? Do you have exceptionally large or exceptionally small hands? What thumb placement are you using?