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Re: Old Eyes and Pin Blurring
« Reply #15 on: August 16, 2017, 08:46:57 PM »
Montana gold makes sights that dim and brighten based on lighting to eliminate pin halo. I highly recommend. I wear eyeglasses and definitely helps.

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Re: Old Eyes and Pin Blurring
« Reply #16 on: August 16, 2017, 09:04:25 PM »
 :yeah:
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Re: Old Eyes and Pin Blurring
« Reply #17 on: August 16, 2017, 09:46:24 PM »
I never thought about this problem until this thread! 

I have been suffering from fuzzy pins forever.  I can see the target without problem.  My spectacles are very strong, do not use (probably should use) bi-focals.  But I can't imagine how hard bi-focals would be with a bow.  Ugh!

I would like to check out these clarifiers.
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Re: Old Eyes and Pin Blurring
« Reply #18 on: August 17, 2017, 12:41:38 AM »
Blue berries help my old eyes tremendously. I can see the difference when I don't eat them my close vision gets blurred when I don't. My vision has changed very little since I been  wearing glasses for the last 50 years. I am near sighted and shoot /hunt without any glasses. I glass with 10/25 binos when needed. Google blueberries for eyesight

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Re: Old Eyes and Pin Blurring
« Reply #19 on: August 17, 2017, 08:09:11 AM »
I ordered the various "Verifier" lens strengths and the "tool".
Clarifier focuses the target. Verifier focuses the pins.
I will be able to look through the different lenses at a pin I hold at arms length, at home.
I will then know what strength of lens to get while still keeping my target in focus.
I can then return the tool and order the correct lens.

If you are in the Olympia area during the week Burn let me know and you can check it out.

Specialtyarch.com makes em and has helpful tech folks if anyone is interested.

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Re: Old Eyes and Pin Blurring
« Reply #20 on: August 17, 2017, 10:38:59 AM »
Blue berries help my old eyes tremendously. I can see the difference when I don't eat them my close vision gets blurred when I don't. My vision has changed very little since I been  wearing glasses for the last 50 years. I am near sighted and shoot /hunt without any glasses. I glass with 10/25 binos when needed. Google blueberries for eyesight
Thanks that's a new one to me, and easy to try with nothing to lose :)
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Re: Old Eyes and Pin Blurring
« Reply #21 on: August 17, 2017, 12:34:10 PM »
I get the B /berries frozen select at Safeway and eat about 1/2 to 3/4 cup every other day

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Re: Old Eyes and Pin Blurring
« Reply #22 on: August 18, 2017, 02:17:33 PM »
We toyed with making Verifier and Clarifier compatible peep sights for awhile now.  But since we are primarily a hunting peep company we've really resisted the idea.  Our testing of both in hunting conditions was terrible.  Treestand hunting I could see it working ok.  Maybe even ground blind hunting.  But dust and water was a constant issue when we tested in the NW bush.

 Early on it was easy to see which of the three dots were the real one and which were the ghost dots.  As my eyes got worse it got harder and harder to tell the difference between real and ghost pins.  One year at the ATA I got a chance to talk with Randy Ulmer about this.  He turned me on the possibility that as we get older and our eyes get weaker we lose depth of field. And that leads to these fuzzy pins and ghost images.  He explained that by adjusting our aperture diameter we can get back a lot of the depth we lost with our aging weaker eyes. 

At the time I was shooting a 7/32 aperture with a .019 pin.   I stepped down to a 3/32" aperture and my ghost pins went away and pin was perfect!  I stepped it up gradually and finally settled on 5/32" as a compromise between the most light I can get to my eye without getting ghost images or excessive fuzziness.  That's been about eight years now.  I am waiting to get a new pair of glasses to decide if I need to take a step back to the 1/8" as I'm starting to see a wide pin now instead of a round one.
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Re: Old Eyes and Pin Blurring
« Reply #23 on: August 18, 2017, 07:25:40 PM »
I found a quick, somewhat satisfactory solution.  I simply put a small piece of masking tape over the far ends of my fiber optics which cuts the amount of light entering them.  It deadened the light enough to make the pins much sharper in the daylight without all the haze and extra glowing.  In low light I simply remove the tape to provide good light in the ends of the pins.  Not a permanent solution but on quick notice I'm happy to have it!

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Re: Old Eyes and Pin Blurring
« Reply #24 on: August 21, 2017, 07:32:33 AM »
I screwed with the verifier tool at home this weekend.

Not impressed.

I will stick with black electrical tape wrapped around my sight housing to mute the brightness.

Good luck this season all!!

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Re: Old Eyes and Pin Blurring
« Reply #25 on: August 21, 2017, 07:45:59 AM »
Spraying mine with flat black paint helps keep it sharp.
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Re: Old Eyes and Pin Blurring
« Reply #26 on: August 21, 2017, 08:31:56 AM »
Blue berries help my old eyes tremendously. I can see the difference when I don't eat them my close vision gets blurred when I don't. My vision has changed very little since I been  wearing glasses for the last 50 years. I am near sighted and shoot /hunt without any glasses. I glass with 10/25 binos when needed. Google blueberries for eyesight
Thanks that's a new one to me, and easy to try with nothing to lose :)

And blueberries are delicious.  Mmmmmm......gives me even more of an excuse to eat a flat a day.  With a little whip cream on top   :chuckle: :chuckle:

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Re: Old Eyes and Pin Blurring
« Reply #27 on: August 21, 2017, 08:43:06 AM »
I bought a 1/2 flat yesterday.
Ate about 2 dozen hand fulls.

Got more this morning in the office.
Yum.

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Re: Old Eyes and Pin Blurring
« Reply #28 on: June 24, 2019, 04:31:13 PM »
I put a red dot on my bow no more problems shooting hopefully some day they will legalize them to hunt with the animals deserve it

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Re: Old Eyes and Pin Blurring
« Reply #29 on: November 08, 2019, 06:20:11 PM »
I added a verifier peep and it worked. Illegal for hunting tho. Got a new script for glasses, a new sight that's further out front and has .019 pins. Removed the glass from the peep. Peep is huge but solved the problem and fits the sight housing.

 


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