Show assa by ted 7 ed kesting it Is peculiar the attention hunters will lavish on a good gun mid and never think of checking up tip on the eyes that operate r vz it you can buy the best 51 of guns lubars for a few loo dollars but hut try arv shopping eoff demesne around for fon a good goo shooting eye sometime shooting a rifle or shotgun Is a 3 highly complicated visual mental job lets let dr ralph E wick explain what h happens apkens when you pick up that favorite rifle to take a crack at the target first of all your dominant eye has to take over and start running the tile show if you shoot with both eyes open it is feces sary for the brain to suspend the vision in one eye those unfortunate hunters who nant left eyed but right handed have quite a problem As a gen eral oral rule it is best to give in ia to the eye and learn to shoot left handed this Is especially true in shotgun shooting the actual process of focusing that sho otin eye is quite involved the eye must change focus from the back sight to the front sight to the target in an instant it is tile the loss of this focusing ability usually between the tile ages of 40 to 50 that requires bifocals or reading glasses about this age that back sight right begins to blur for the rifleman there are two solutions for him he can trade in his open sights for either cither a peep sight or a scope shotgun specialists nrc arc more fortunate than riflemen when it comes to 0 visual changes be cause shotgun shote shooting shooting is ls more m ore of a pointing proposition 10 than teed meed Sra wina drawing a fine bead heres lieres where e experience really counts if our process of seeing were as simple pc as us operating a i camera kniura there would be little to it seeing Is actually done with the brain the eyes merely take the pie pic tures while the brain records what is going on this eye brain combination is subject to certain defects the most common ones I 1 being bein rAit hain rf near sight sightedness fi t edness AI ff n f 1 r i edness and astigmatism these are all with rias glas glassed seC see if you are one of the hunters who has to wear glasses in the tho field here are some poin points ts i which might be of value most lens corrections are now available in hardened lenses they appear very little different from an ordinary lens but are practically indestructible special opel huh buh hunting bifocals wi can be designed for you which have the little segment set extremely low or over to one side the coating process which is so effective in hunting scopes can also be used on your eyeglasses try some of the new lens coating type glass plass cleaner if dust and water annoy you in the field if bright days bother you your lens correction can be made j up in dark glasses I 1 ask your optometrist if you ya are wearing corrected curve lenses this is important for hunters as it means that the lens strength Is the same on the edge as it is in the middle |