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I decided today to send a few rounds down at a target. Its only the second time this entire year that I've shot and its been driving me nuts. This is an unusual year, as I'm used to sending around a thousand rounds by now but, with four surgeries this year, two on my shoot'n eye, things had just about came to a halt.
A torn and detached retina in my shoot'n eye, then a rapidly growing cataract in the eye that made me totally blind in that eye had me worried. Then in July I was finally released by the retinal surgeon to have the cataract removed. Oh ya, now the left eye is now either going to tear or detach...... :cry:
Ol' "Bad Medicine" came out of the safe and all the supplies on the bench, then I started shoot'n. I wish I could say that I had a great day and shot up to my expectations but, that didn't happen. After shooting at multiple targets 48 times, I could get no better than just slightly less than 2" groups. Now.... nothing's changed with the rifle, scope or load and it should be shooting less than 1" groups, however I just couldn't get them to fall today. I'd get 3 shots you could cover with a quarter, then one off to the right, one off high, maybe one at 7:00 and then put 3 shots under a quarter again. Being bullheaded in most cases, I did try a number of different things that I normally don't have to do. They didn't work either. Then I even took the bench up and added another 2" to the legs, making it slightly more comfortable to shoot. It really didn't matter what I did, it just wouldn't give me consistent groupings. I shoot at a 2" Caldwell shoot-n-see, stuck to a larger target. I noticed that there were times I could see the red dot in the center, then other times the 2" dot was all I could see. I'm wondering if all the trauma to this eye has permanently caused this problem or, if it still hasn't healed completely....... This getting older stuff, the "Golden Years" is turning out to be "Fool's Gold".......
I'm hoping to get some answers this Thursday, as I have an appointment with the retinal surgeon about this left eye. I'll have to discuss with him my current problems and see what the "professional" thinks. This is something that I'm far from being ready for if its going to be a permanent thing. I've shot all my life and I (we) always knew there'd be a time when things would start slipping. It still doesn't make me (us) ready for it.......
A torn and detached retina in my shoot'n eye, then a rapidly growing cataract in the eye that made me totally blind in that eye had me worried. Then in July I was finally released by the retinal surgeon to have the cataract removed. Oh ya, now the left eye is now either going to tear or detach...... :cry:
Ol' "Bad Medicine" came out of the safe and all the supplies on the bench, then I started shoot'n. I wish I could say that I had a great day and shot up to my expectations but, that didn't happen. After shooting at multiple targets 48 times, I could get no better than just slightly less than 2" groups. Now.... nothing's changed with the rifle, scope or load and it should be shooting less than 1" groups, however I just couldn't get them to fall today. I'd get 3 shots you could cover with a quarter, then one off to the right, one off high, maybe one at 7:00 and then put 3 shots under a quarter again. Being bullheaded in most cases, I did try a number of different things that I normally don't have to do. They didn't work either. Then I even took the bench up and added another 2" to the legs, making it slightly more comfortable to shoot. It really didn't matter what I did, it just wouldn't give me consistent groupings. I shoot at a 2" Caldwell shoot-n-see, stuck to a larger target. I noticed that there were times I could see the red dot in the center, then other times the 2" dot was all I could see. I'm wondering if all the trauma to this eye has permanently caused this problem or, if it still hasn't healed completely....... This getting older stuff, the "Golden Years" is turning out to be "Fool's Gold".......
I'm hoping to get some answers this Thursday, as I have an appointment with the retinal surgeon about this left eye. I'll have to discuss with him my current problems and see what the "professional" thinks. This is something that I'm far from being ready for if its going to be a permanent thing. I've shot all my life and I (we) always knew there'd be a time when things would start slipping. It still doesn't make me (us) ready for it.......