Overcoming The Challenges Of Astigmatism
Part 1
In 2013, as a member of Triple Canopy's WPPS program I was on the range just having arrived to the U.S. embassy compound (Baghdad, Iraq).
We were zeroing and qualifying with our rifles. When I looked through the red dot sight I saw something that I had never seen before; what was supposed to be a singular red dot looked more like a bright point with multiple offshoots of little red lightening bolts. I figured that my electronic sight was messed up. how wrong I was.
If you see a “comma” or “star” type of pattern when you look through your red dot sight (as I did) instead of a distinguished red dot, you may have a condition known as "astigmatism".
In this series of posts dealing with astigmatism I’ll define what astigmatism is, provide you with internet based recommendations and my suggested resolutions based on my own experience.
Please feel free to share these posts with your fellow tacticians. There may be someone out there looking for this information.
-Krieger
Survive. Fight. Win. Return With Honor.
Part 1
In 2013, as a member of Triple Canopy's WPPS program I was on the range just having arrived to the U.S. embassy compound (Baghdad, Iraq).
We were zeroing and qualifying with our rifles. When I looked through the red dot sight I saw something that I had never seen before; what was supposed to be a singular red dot looked more like a bright point with multiple offshoots of little red lightening bolts. I figured that my electronic sight was messed up. how wrong I was.
If you see a “comma” or “star” type of pattern when you look through your red dot sight (as I did) instead of a distinguished red dot, you may have a condition known as "astigmatism".
In this series of posts dealing with astigmatism I’ll define what astigmatism is, provide you with internet based recommendations and my suggested resolutions based on my own experience.
Please feel free to share these posts with your fellow tacticians. There may be someone out there looking for this information.
-Krieger
Survive. Fight. Win. Return With Honor.