Unless you’re blessed with devilish good luck, the less visible a target, the harder it is to hit. While many of us are fortunate enough to have eyesight that, with the help of glasses, perhaps, is serviceable enough to see us through busy days at our desks, behind the wheel or out doing work in the field, shooting requires more from our vision.
Ed Lyons, a sports optometrist, has seen it all. As one of the UK’s leading shooting vision consultants, he’s helped hundreds of Shots to point their barrels with precision rather than pot luck. He’s witnessed his fair share of unusual conditions, but most of Ed’s clients suffer from a handful of common complaints that many of us will be familiar with. So, if your sight picture is already looking vaguer than a party manifesto at election time, don your specs and read on – you may see something useful.
Visual acuity issues
Visual acuity is the term used to define retinal sharpness or resolution. Simplistically, we commonly refer to
