I really need to bring my cheater glasses into stores.
But I keep forgetting them. I was at a gun store today and I THOUGHT the sign for Red Army .223 said $250.00 per 1,000. Imagine my utter surprise and embarrassment when the guy rang it up and it was $750.00 plus tax. I got it back on the shelf careful to not even dent the cardboard box it was in.
I did get 2 boxes of Hornaday 6ARC for $25.00 a box. I am buying it waiting for the CMMG upper to get built. Now I have 100 rounds of factory, I got the dies and LOTS of 6MM bullets for when the upper arrives.
Cheater glasses for reading are a PIA but after 63 trips around the sun they are a required bit of kit for me.
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I've been there for a while Brother. Especially since my eye surgery's in the later part of 2019. (Cataracts and replacement lenses.) Nobody told me, "Oh, by the way - your not going to be able to see up close anymore." That would have been a nice thing to let me know. 🤔
If I don't have my "cheaters" on me, no way am I going to be reading anything up close.
Luckily, I have about 4-5 work safety glasses that are normal (no prescription) on 80% of the lens, cheater 2.5X on the lower part. Just got back from the store, wearing them. If I do not have them, I have to resort to the kindness of strangers. "I'm sorry, can you read this for me?" 🙈😢
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I moved away from cheaters to progressive prescription glasses and have been so happy that I did.
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I am in the same boat and have been for about 5 years now. I can see like a hawk long distance but close up nothing its all a blur.
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That is the Rohipnol (sp?) That Ricci is slipping in to your drinks, Sam. 😂
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All Ricci has to drink is coffee and I don't drink it. I think its because I am getting OLD, 61 this year.
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61??? HAH!
You still running on break-in oil!
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Wife has what the call mono vision - one eye corrected for close up, the other for distance. Been holding her own for 20-ish years like that.
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Women's brains are wired so that they can use that "mono vision" setup MUCH better than man can - according to my eye Doc. Men have a hard time with it, being more dependent on depth perception than women are. It's directly inherited from hunters versus gatherers, believe it or not. Men hunted, women gathered.
(In the modern world, that translates to men play sports and women shop. Really.)
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When I stumble around a store and end up catching my fall on a women's breasts, I always am yelling " I can't see. Help me."
It very rarely works.
Maybe if I had my seeing eye Pit in his chest harness, I'd be more believable. 🤔
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I have no sympathy for you. I have worn glasses since Jr. High. I was in bifocals at the university, then single vision. Then I got contacts. Then I moved to the desert. Too dry: back into glasses. Then back into bifocals. Been a fact of life for me for about 60 years. Not part of my "kit" I don't leave home without them.
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I feel your pain.
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I had cataract surgery done and they put in multi- vision lenses. I can see perfect near and far with no need for glasses for anything. It was a great investment for shooting getting the multi-vision.
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I think I can see great until I go into a Restaurant and try to order or read the label on something, went to Lowes one day and they had three packs of various magnification on sale for a buck and change, I only bought two or three three packs by the time wife sent me back they were all gone. We like to leave them everywhere in the house so they are always available.
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He Dog: 31516117095195/comments/31516134820891
I have no sympathy for you. I have worn glasses since Jr. High. I was in bifocals at the university, then single vision. Then I got contacts. Then I moved to the desert. Too dry: back into glasses. Then back into bifocals. Been a fact of life for me for about 60 years. Not part of my "kit" I don't leave home without them.
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HAH! I've worn glasses since the sixth grade...........no sympathy from me, either! :)
Up to TRIFOCALS now! 😫
Merc
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I had the monovision done about 5 yrs. ago ... 16-18" in the left for inspecting welds.... distant in the right eye ..sure works good for a rifle scope... I just have to remember to use my left eye for pistol sights.. try it out no specs needed except for when in the shop or on the range........
JIM............
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gjshaw: 31516117095195/comments/31516089780635
I had cataract surgery done and they put in multi- vision lenses. I can see perfect near and far with no need for glasses for anything. It was a great investment for shooting getting the multi-vision.
I think these are one of the coolest advances in vision correction for us old geezers. Do you know which ones they used in your eyes?
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I have reading glasses in every vehicle I own, plus a pair in every room of the house. I can pass the driver's license exam with no problem, but the close-range stuff is a problem. Also, all my safety glasses are bi-focals, $6 per pair at WalMart. I really like them.
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