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#1: Feeling a bit ordinary today Author: Vince, Location: Brisbane AUSTRALIA

Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2025 8:21 pm
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I’m not feeling 100% today. Had a cataract removed from my dodgy right eye yesterday, they also fitted a lens and zapped the back of my eye with a laser. It has all left me feeling pretty ordinary…headaches, back and neck aching from laying flat on my back for an hour whilst they worked on me (have a neck and back injury from when I was in the Army). Fingers crossed, I will be able to see a bit better when everything settles down. Who knows, I might even be able to use my right eye again, or even shoot better Laughing

#2: Re: Feeling a bit ordinary today Author: DallanC, Location: Utah

Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2025 2:03 pm
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Gotta feel weird for sure. Hope you recover quickly. My dad had that procedure and he had better vision after than when he was in his 40s.

-DallanC

#3: Re: Feeling a bit ordinary today Author: gelandangan, Location: Sydney Australia

Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2025 5:04 pm
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Speedy recovery mate

#4: Re: Feeling a bit ordinary today Author: Vince, Location: Brisbane AUSTRALIA

Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2025 11:10 pm
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DallanC wrote:

Gotta feel weird for sure. Hope you recover quickly. My dad had that procedure and he had better vision after than when he was in his 40s.

-DallanC

Thanks mate. Don’t know if I’ll have better vision because it was my dodgy eye they worked on. The Ophthalmologist tried to remove with the laser at least some of the blood that was buckling my macula and causing a big blurry blob in the middle of my vision in the right eye. I’ll have to wait until it all settles down to find out if the Dr has been successful, otherwise I’ll have a nice sharply defined blob. Laughing

Learning to shoot left handed after 60 years of right handed shooting was a job and a half I can tell you…muscle memory is difficult to overcome.

“gelandangan” wrote:

Speedy recovery mate

Thanks mate, much appreciated.

#5: Re: Feeling a bit ordinary today Author: RePete, Location: Gods Country

Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2025 10:30 am
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Take care Vince and remember no heavy lifting or shooting for a while. Make sure you ask the Doctor.

A few years ago Deb had a detached retina and was fixed the next day, successful. Because it was days before Christmas no shooting happened.

#6: Re: Feeling a bit ordinary today Author: Bushmaster, Location: Ava, Missouri

Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2025 1:52 pm
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Wife had cataract surgery a year ago on both eyes. She sees TOO good. I had to re-hide all my goodies again.

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#7: Re: Feeling a bit ordinary today Author: DallanC, Location: Utah

Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2025 3:01 pm
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LOL!

-DallanC

#8: Re: Feeling a bit ordinary today Author: RePete, Location: Gods Country

Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2025 6:11 pm
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Bushmaster wrote:

Wife had cataract surgery a year ago on both eyes. She sees TOO good. I had to re-hide all my goodies again.

Now that's too funny!
. Very Happy

#9: Re: Feeling a bit ordinary today Author: DallanC, Location: Utah

Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2025 6:13 pm
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Bushmaster wrote:

Wife had cataract surgery a year ago on both eyes. She sees TOO good. I had to re-hide all my goodies again.

Do not... I repeat do NOT get those fancy dancy super bright LED garage lights... good lord, it makes the inside of your garage look like high noon... it makes the clutter unbearably obvious. LOL!

-DallanC

#10: Re: Feeling a bit ordinary today Author: Bushmaster, Location: Ava, Missouri

Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2025 6:17 pm
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Oh...You noticed that too.

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#11: Re: Feeling a bit ordinary today Author: Vince, Location: Brisbane AUSTRALIA

Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2025 11:02 pm
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Feeling much much better now. I think the problem was the residual anaesthetic. I find that even things like Twilight Anaesthetic take 3 or 4 days to get out of my system.

I drove up to my “go to” gun store yesterday and picked up some factory 308 ammo…Winchester 135gr HP and PMC 150gr SP, also a new scope for the 308. I opted for a Nikko Stirling Diamond 4-16x40 unit, only AUD$319 and a lifetime warranty. The reticle is a bit “busy” (see pic below), but I can work around that. The Winchester offering looks very much like the same HP round the Police use in their sniper rifles; it’s marked as doing 3000 fps. I want to try some good factory ammo in the 308 with which to compare my handloads. I’ll check with my Ophthalmologist when I can shoot again first of course.

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#12: Re: Feeling a bit ordinary today Author: Pumpkinslinger, Location: NC foothills

Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2025 12:24 pm
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Vince, I've had retina, cataract and laser surgery on both eyes. As planned, they flipped my vision from near-sighted to far-sighted. Right now they say my vision is 20/20. I do need glasses for reading easily, but can read without them. The docs say they've never seen someone come back from a partially detached retina with 20/20 vision.

Give it some time to heal. So far the only "negative" effect I've noticed is that it seems that my depth perception is a little off at a distance. Things are a little closer than I think.

#13: Re: Feeling a bit ordinary today Author: Vince, Location: Brisbane AUSTRALIA

Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2025 11:34 pm
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Pumpkinslinger wrote:

Vince, I've had retina, cataract and laser surgery on both eyes. As planned, they flipped my vision from near-sighted to far-sighted. Right now they say my vision is 20/20. I do need glasses for reading easily, but can read without them. The docs say they've never seen someone come back from a partially detached retina with 20/20 vision.

Give it some time to heal. So far the only "negative" effect I've noticed is that it seems that my depth perception is a little off at a distance. Things are a little closer than I think.

I reckon I’d be happy with a result like that Punkin. The depth perception can be overcome with a decent Range Finder, depending on how far out the “distance” is that you have problems.

#14: Re: Feeling a bit ordinary today Author: Elvis, Location: south island New Zealand

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2025 7:59 am
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You look after yourself mate.you will love light loads in 308. Both Speer 130hp and 125 TNT are awesome to use.

#15: Re: Feeling a bit ordinary today Author: Aloysius, Location: B., Belgium

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2025 1:37 pm
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Elvis wrote:

You look after yourself mate.you will love light loads in 308. Both Speer 130hp and 125 TNT are awesome to use.

or a powder coated lead bullet of the .32 ACP - 85-90 grn...

they even sell .30 pellets and slugs for airrifles...

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