A rifle

[Kurt]

Chris,
As much as I hate to admit it I think my 82 years are starting to take effect on me.
Last year at the Quigley it was very hot, 115º and I was dumb enough to get out and shoot in that heat with a light .45-2.6 and I developed torn retina in both eyes. I didn't notice this till the morning of the match by looking up at the sky light in the camper in the early morning dawn. the dim light disappeared and reappeared and a dark red halo around the black spot when I scanned across it I closed one eye and it did it again as well as the second eye.
This happened at the Baker shoot a few years before also when I used the .50 and the .45-90 but just the right eye.
The Optometrist asked what I did before this happened and I told him that was shooting a heavy recoiling rifle and it was hot around 115º and he said that this might what caused it by the temperature raised the pressure of the jell and caused the problem, but he said I cant say for sure because your the first that I have had telling me this and the red halo is very unusual.
Right now unless it's very bright out looking through the apertures I can barely see the black bull on the target. I'm forst to shoot now with a scope and even this is tough because of the black spot in the center vision is hard to see through.
I guess when it gets hot I will shoot the.38 or the .40. Maybe all the time now no matter what the temp is.