Hi All:

     I recently discovered that my old yes and iron sight are not a good combination.  I can not see well enough to use the iron sights!

     What to do? I have new glasses but they are not the answer.  I guess that I must give up iron sights and admit that old age has caught up with me.  I shot my Hi Wall and Win 92 for the first time yesterday and the best that I could do was a 12" group at 50 yards with both guns.

      Suggestions?

                                           Tia,

                                           Zeke

Zeke, I recently had my eyes fixed due to some cataracts. I had become like you in regards to Iron sights, and even somewhat with scopes. Now, I need to wear reading glasses for small print up close. Regular vision, including all gun sights is amazing now. I'd forgotten what a wonderful world it is out there when you can see it better. My glasses had been changed three times in less than two years to keep up (haha to that). What I'm saying is to find out if something like this is your problem. Your shooting will be more fun, for sure, but the better part is the rest of the things out there- like family and all. By the way, the operations were painless and fast Pat

If your 92 and 1885 have barrel mounted open sights try a tang sight. Both those rifles should have the holes already drilled and tapped. 
I gave up on my 94 for deer hunting for a couple years until I bought an OLDER model Lyman tang sight. That 90 year old rifle has taken more deer for me than any other single rifle I've used.

Have you tried the Merit or Gehmann adjustable appature diopters that fit on regular glasses?  I too could not see open sights...  These really sharpen up those open sights.  I can still shoot either appature or tang sights as well as I ever could.

If you wear glasses and the last pair didn't work for shooting...

Do what the guys in the old days did.   It worked for me back when I was in my 40s just like it did for them.   I got a pair of glasses for shooting.  They weren't the usual update of your prescription like the ones you just got that don't work now.   

You get a pair of glasses for shooting that will have the sights sharp for your dominant eye and the target sharp for the other eye.   It works great.  In fact a lot of contact lenses are setup just like that and are called bifocal contacts.  They don't care which eye is dominant for those.  The eye doctors are quite familiar with those.    The only difference for the shooting glasses is the doctor has to know which of your eyes needs to see the sights clearly.   

When I get my regular glasses prescription updated, I tell the doctor I want two prescriptions and he charges nothing extra since he does nothing more extra other than writing a 2nd sheet of paper.   

Those kind of glasses have been working for older shooters since eye glasses were made with bifocal lenses.   The older shooters who really didn't want to quit shooting figured it out pretty quickly.   And pushed their eye doctors into making the glasses for them.    You'll understand why that had to be done the first time you explain what you want to your eyedoctor.

I was running matches back when I got my first pair and worried about wearing the glasses all day.  And the possibility of headaches and such.    Never had a seconds problem...  Of any kind...

Keep working at it. May be possible to re train your eyes to shoot good irons again. Your eyes will get stronger and your brain will adjust to the new activity. 

Practice practice practice. 

     Joe.