I had carpal tunnel once and wore one of those wrist braces that I got from the Drugstore. It worked. That and I switched to an Microsoft Ergonomic type keyboard. The regular key board was what gave me the Carpal Tunnel in the first place. I did a lot of typing back then and still do.
Some guys have to have an operation for carpal tunnel disease.
As for the eye sight. Not much that I can do about my eye sight. I take a lot of meds due to a heart condition. Those meds make my vision blurry.
I'm going to the eye doctor tomorrow and see what he says. I think I have a problem with the retina in my left eye. This eye doctor is associated with a medial group that includes opthomologist and eye surgeons that can fix more eye problems that my other Eye Dr that I got my contacts from. The other eye Dr works for Eye Mart and all they do is eye glasses and contacts no eye surgery or other things like that. So I'm going back to my regular eye Dr tomorrow. I went to him for several years since 2009.
I've noticed that my vision in my right eye is getting worse too. My eye glasses that I got back in 2012 are not helping as well as they did when I first got them. So maybe I need new lenses again.
I went to the range yesterday and took my Remington Model 660 in 222 cal. It shot pretty good groups at 200 yards. I had one flier. First shot. Might have been oil in the gun that I failed to clean out before firing the first shot or maybe I just screwed up that shot somehow. But the next three rounds were all inside the orange colored bulls eye of the larger Shoot N C targets I used. I have a Burris Full Field II scope on the Rem. I was shooting Remington R222R1 50 grain Pointed Soft Point bullets in 222 cal. I use to hand load 222 brass with a Lee Loader Hand tool. I still have it but don't have any bullets, primers or power for that system now. I still have the mechanical bar scale that I used to weight out the power. I use that to check the weight of my lead fishing jigs.
I also shot the Ambush Firearms 5.56 AR15. I slapped the Nikon on it for a while and then took that off and put the EOTECH on it. Both optical systems were sighted in for 200 yards and were shooting acceptable after being removed from the rail and reinstalled back on the rail. I keep these optical systems in their own transport boxed. Basically they are a large plastic pistol case and a smaller pistol case that the EOTech system came in.
I used the Lead Sled for both rifles which makes the bench shooting much more accurate. I tried 50 lbs of lead weights on the lead sled and then used to ratcheting type straps to secure the Lead Sled to the shooting bench. But the recoil moved the lead sled with each shoot. Both the 222 and the 223 rifles move the lead sled even though it was strapped down to the top of the shooting bench. I didn't think that the 222 or the 223 kicked that much but I guess it does. Although it was easy to realign the scope or the EOTECH red dot back onto the target after each shoot.
I took some wind flags with me and put them out along the path to the target. I could tell the wind was blowing pretty good right at the 100 yard mark. The shooting range has berms of dirt that run along each side of each of the four different ranges. The 200 yard range is at the end and the one side has a row of older Pine trees growing parallel to the berms length. There is a area where there are no pine trees (they might have died) and that lets the wind blow though that area which just happens to be right at the 100 yard mark. The wind played havoc with the bullets as it was changing directions a lot. But I still have a good day of shooting and enjoyed the range. It was not very crowded so I could concentrate and not get distracted by other shooters. All the other shooters were at the pistol range on the other end. Only one guy was at the 100 yard range next to me and he didn't get there until late in the day. One couple were down at the 50 yard range and shooting 22 cal rifles. So I could take my ear protection off at times and not have to worry about someone else shooting large cal rifles when I was not ready. It was a nice sunny day too. No rain and few clouds. A nice day in May to go to the range and shoot.
My elbow is doing better as it didn't really hurt much after I got home. And I carried a lot of gear during the day. I think that the ammo boxes weight a ton. They might weight around 50 lbs each. The lead sled weights 23 lbs and the weight bags with lead shot in them weight 25 lbs each. I spent the entire day up there this time. They open longer in the summer months. 7 to 7 during the summer. They close at 4 pm during the winter and fall. Heck by the time I get up there in the winter it's time to go home already. I'm a late riser. LOL
Originally Posted By: FurhunterOriginally Posted By: vahunterNow I Have a new excuse for mine. I always thought it came from Hustler magazines.
Yup... No tendentious here either... Just carpal tunnel!
On the bright side though..... I still have my eyesight! LOL
