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Morgan Sports Optical in Olean, New York is a class act! Several years ago, I wrote a column for Shotgun Sports Magazine about my difficulty seeing handgun bullseye targets and my gun's sights clearly. I found that wearing my bifocal glasses upside down allowed me to see the sights crystal-clear but the black bull of the targets looked like a blurry football standing on end. Partially as a joke, I included a photo of me wearing my glasses like that which generated a lot of comical reader mail but one email I received was from Wayne Morgan's father, Harold, who told me he could make lenses for me that would permit me to see both my sights and the target with good clarity and asked if I am right- or left-handed, my distance prescription and the distance at which I shoot handguns at targets. I honestly didn't think what he was offering was possible but I sent him that information.

A few weeks later, a Randolph Ranger frame plus one left lens and five right lenses arrived in the mail (I'm right-handed). One of the right lenses actually did make me see both objects with clarity! His method is now public knowledge because a paper he submitted on the process appeared in a optometry publication and a local optometrist was recently able to make lenses for my Decot frames with my most current prescription. Accordingly, if you are older and suffering from the same condition as I was, an eye doctor near you would be able to research Dr. Morgan's paper and correct the problem without requiring you to alter your gun or add an optical sight, which is what most olde pharts like me seem to be doing to combat it.

By the way (back to trapshooting), I was able to narrow my assortment of lens colorations down to two, medium bronze for bright days and 15% gold for overcast skies and night shooting. The popular "target orange" and other colorations that brighten the targets made them hard for my eyes to see against a bright sky. But my eyes require a lot of contrast, perhaps more than most peoples.'

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