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looking through the scope - what am I doing wrong?
callktulu
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I watched three does walking/grazing in a field this morning. They were about 200 yards away....maybe a bit more. I watched them through my scope as they moved until they went into woods and out of sight. When I continued my naked eye scanning of my hunting area, everything in my left eye (the one I keep shut while looking through the scope) is blurry. It was like that for quite some time.
I figured my RIGHT eye would be fatigued, since it was the one I used for so long while looking through the scope. But the one closed tight ends up being blurry.
Besides using my scope for observation, what am I doing wrong? Is this normal or am I hurting my eyes somehow?[?]
I figured my RIGHT eye would be fatigued, since it was the one I used for so long while looking through the scope. But the one closed tight ends up being blurry.
Besides using my scope for observation, what am I doing wrong? Is this normal or am I hurting my eyes somehow?[?]
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Only happens after extended periods of staring through my 12 power VXII at long range little critters.
If you pulled the trigger you would have had a dead deer on your hands and the blurry eye would have been forgoten./
A better plan for observing is to purchase a quality binocular and use that rather than your riflescope. I have seen a number of "hunters" use their riflescope in place of their binocular and eventually they wind up looking at another hunter through the scope. It is more than a touch unsettling. When I have been a victim of someone "scoping" me, I have confronted the offending party and made it clear in no uncertain terms that they should buy a binocular and learn how to use it or stay home.
Well the obvious mistake is you failed to pull the trigger.
If you pulled the trigger you would have had a dead deer on your hands and the blurry eye would have been forgoten./
The deer were on someone else's property. I was waiting for them to come onto the property I have permission to hunt upon.
I've tried to use the scope with both eyes open, but my eyes won't focus. Any trick to master this?
An old Army guy I used to work with before he retired had this 24" long stick with a white dot at the end of it... he would hold it out in one hand as far out to the side of his view as he could while keeping his head straight ahead, then would try to see the white dot in his peripheral vision. he would make slow circles and switch hands after about 5 minutes. excercising his peripheral vision at all angles... he said it helps to keep the eyeballs "round" or at least in the right shape.
One of the few 70 year-olds I know that doesn't need glasses.
I shoot mostly long eye relief pistol scopes and it really helps to keep both of those peepers open at all times.... You don't really use the off eye for anything, but it needs to be open....
[?]barto[?]
With enough practice at the range, which we all should be getting in anyway, it simplifies learning the both eyes open technique.
Perhaps you are "other eye dominant"?
[?]barto[?]
+1 Check your eye dominance.
If that don't help, call neighbor or just shoot the dang thing over there.[:D]
I like to close the left eye, it is natural for me, I am not even going to try to keep that eye open, no matter what "the book" may say.
quote:Originally posted by barto
Perhaps you are "other eye dominant"?
[?]barto[?]
+1 Check your eye dominance.
If that don't help, call neighbor or just shoot the dang thing over there.[:D]
Still wasn't a good idea to shoot that way anyway....houses and a major road (GA Hwy 49). Just all-around not an ideal shot.