Massad Ayoob's Tips for Older Shooters - Bifocals
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
- Massad Ayoob has been asked to give some advice to older shooters. As an older shooter himself, Mas plenty of tips to offer. From hands, fingers, backs and eyes Mas covers it all.
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Critical Mas(s) with Massad Ayoob is a show that provides expert analysis over a wide range of contemporaneous topics related to civilian and law enforcement self-defense, the use of force, and second amendment issues, provided by a renowned and established author with a career spanning decades in training law enforcement officers and the public at large, who is frequently called upon to provide expert witness testimony.
ABOUT MASSAD AYOOB:
Massad Ayoob has been handgun editor of GUNS magazine and law enforcement columnist for AMERICAN HANDGUNNER since the 1970s and has published thousands of articles in gun magazines, martial arts publications, and law enforcement journals. He is the author of some twenty books on firearms, self-defense, and related topics, including “In the Gravest Extreme” and “Deadly Force,” widely considered to be authoritative texts on the topic of the use of lethal force.
The winner of the Outstanding American Handgunner of the Year Award in 1998, Mas has won several state and regional handgun shooting championships. Ayoob was the first person to earn the title of Five Gun Master in the International Defensive Pistol Association. He is the current President of the Second Amendment Foundation. He served 19 years as chair of the Firearms Committee of the American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers, and several years as a member of the Advisory Board of the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association. In addition to teaching for those groups, he has also taught
for the International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors and the International Homicide Investigators seminars.
Mas has received judicial recognition as an expert witness for the courts in weapons and shooting cases since 1979, and served as a fully sworn and empowered, part-time police officer for 43 years, mostly at supervisor rank. Ayoob founded the Lethal Force Institute in 1981 and served as its director until 2009, and now trains through Massad Ayoob Group. He has
appeared on CLE-TV delivering continuing legal education for attorneys, through the American Law Institute and American Bar Association, and has been retained to train attorneys to handle deadly force cases through the Armed Citizens Legal Defense Network. Ayoob served for two
years as co-vice chair of the Forensic Evidence Committee of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He also appeared in each episode of Personal Defense TV (Sportsman’s Channel).
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Watching Massad Ayoob say "die scum"! was priceless.
It's quality meme material.
"Do it!"
Emperor Palpatine.
@@effdiffeyeno171 Somebody should do that lol…
He should voice act for video games
Honestly that was the best part 😂
Do the Prussian officers proud
For whatever reason, hearing Massad say "die scum" in the same cadence as his normal speaking voice had me cackling
Very Robocop.
After this, I'm gonna be reading my books in a fighting stance
😂
instructions unclear, got into a fight with a book
Lol😂
There is another configuration that was created for airline pilots who had to look straight ahead through the window but had instrument panels bothe above and below the window. It was called "Double D" because it had the two reading "planes". As an Auto Mechanic, I had to work under the dashboard for example, and it required looking down through the top of my glasses at close up things. The Twin close-focus areas solved that problem and still allowed normal posture while reading.
Thanks for that comment. I'm an avid reader, and tops wouldn't work well for me for reading. I'd have more neck trouble than I already do.
Electricians use similar "trifocals" as well
I never doubted his skill in firearms operating and teaching. But you gotta stop and appreciate the man’s sophisticated sense of humour
Exactly! I'm reluctant to admit how long I laughed at "Die, scum!". Didn't expect it; Pleasantly surprised.
He is low key funny AF.
And his way with words
Recently watched his old video on lethal force. He was a lot younger and it was a classroom videos. Very 90s professional, suddenly while talking about lying in court he said “ you suck one cock and you are a cock sucker for life, same goes for lying” nearly spit out my lunch laughing
I don’t know why but “blind man with a gun” killed me.
A very intense reader. 🤣🤣🤣
That one made me laugh 😂
Ayoob always has a keen sense of humor.
With some very intense neck pain lol
yeah, extremely tired at the end of the day wearing those...
You are stressing your sight even more
From watching this short. I love this guy and his teaching and jokes. A all around package of a content creator
Beautiful voice… how is that man not heard all through Hollywood
He’s not woke.
My wife is also my optician. She also happens to be an avid shooter. Instead of moving the plane to the top, we’ve found that by widening the plane gives this same result without being the ‘intense reader’ as he described. Don’t get me wrong, Mr. Ayoob is the ultimate authority on gun related issues. However, on this one we’ve found both solutions were equally sufficient in solving this problem.
Do you mean that you made it taller? It’s already the width of the lens.
Please explain "widening the plane".
@@curtcmiller
I think he means the profile of the lens, thick in the middle, thin at the edge. Make the left and right edges 'thicker'.
That's my guess anyway.
(My first reaction was the same as yours though.)
Your wife is an optician and didn’t just use occupational bifocals? I think you made this up. If she was she wouldn’t need to make some weird custom idea, she would just use the industry standard.
Andrew branca is the ultimate authority on gun related issues. Masad even wrote the forward for andrews book "The law of self defense"
I luv massad he's a great teacher
He tells us stuff you just don't hear anywhere.
@@johnwhitehead5457 agreed he's old-school, it's a dying breed, his knowledge is priceless
I would use difocals so I can see what I'm doing when I clean my weapons. Dillon sells bi- focals with right and left side corrections.
420 likes, lol
Doesn’t like to lean back like that cuz his toupee might fall off.
I love this explanation. Not only is it truthful but also listening to gun grandpa crack jokes is somehow heartwarmingly funny.
No matter what the configuration of your eyeglasses is, the fact remains that you can only see through one part of them at a time. Sharp target/blurry sights OR blurry target/sharp sights. I've worn glasses for decades. My personal solution was to install laser sights on my carry guns. Now it's blurry sights/sharp target/sharp LASER DOT ON TARGET.
I’ve always been very curious, how does the laser do outside in the sun?
Try a red dot. It's even better. Focus on target, target is sharp and focused, and a little red dot swings on top of it as you press that trigger
@@robertfota4109add a severe astigmatism to all of this and now the red dot doesn't even work.
Green dot > red dot, in daylight.
Regardless if you wear glasses or not when shooting iron sights only one of the three objects will be in focus.
If front sight focused as you should be then the rear will be slightly blurry and so will the target. You can have perfect vision and this is how it will be.
It's called a segment hight. 2-5 millimeters under your Ocular Center. Tell them you want a high segment intermediate reading power Bifocal.
Progressives may work better because it's based of head tilt. I was an optician.
Can't you have a high and low segment, with "normal walk-around vision" in the middle? A split trifocal, as the case may be?
@@geraldhoffman8565 wouldn’t it just be easier to give them new eyeballs at that point?? 😂😂
@@joker0206, actually, I've heard golfers get the glasses I referred to. But you may have a point. LOL
You could also get thos glasses that half a half way jose gap so you can flip em over and it chages sides
@@geraldhoffman8565 I thought you’d invented a new thing it’s not as much work then, crack on 😂
I believe glasses are available with both top and bottom close vision. It's used by pilots who need to see the instruments and the overhead switches.
It's called an occupational bifocal
@@Jenkins10930 Thanks. I figured there must be a name for it. I actually use mono vision shooting glass when competing.
Bingo :)
Occupationals.
I worked in optics for a while :)
Tim O
That would really take some getting used to.
Oh, no way!
I remember taking a couple of books seminars and trainings with my Father back in the late 70’s with LFI , this instructor was a legend then and is still a legend now 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💥💥💥💥
As an optician, I have made these for shooters. I've also made Double D style glasses for them as well which have the D28 bifocal on both bottom and top.
I went red dot. Solved the issue for me as you're target focused.
Massad Ayoob is a national treasure.
I lost vision in my dominant eye due to cancer 3 years ago. I appreciate you so much
I've seen car mechanics do this too. That way when vehichle is up on a lift they can easily see everything above them to inspect and work
Mas my friend, I have NEVER seen this explained in a simpler nor clearer way in my 42 years of teaching Firearms. GREAT JOB!!!
That's what I love about him, he always knows how to get his point across with a twist of humor!
So you do realize what he is proposing instead of having normal vision for range in the natural place he makes it far worse for everyday life that is not shooting now he is a very very dangerous person on the road so much so that drivers license should be revoked.
The Actual fix to this is to make 1 eye your reading side and 1 eye the see further away you will need to learn to swivel your head more but bifocal is also a learning curve and if done wrong will give you headaches and even migrenes.
Bifocals in the direction he is proposing is not a good idea for most people because it makes your daily life harder to do and makes you a danger to others just so you can shoot if someone is at you.
@@havtor007
I don't mean to alarm you, but occupational bifocals (what Massad describes in this video) have been very common for many years.
@@coupledyetivonvanderburg5385 Those are 180 degree different to what he describes here.
What he describes here is also not something you just wear for a spesific thing like reading glasses but for people always wearing glasses.
What he describes is dangerous to wear while doing tons of activities in your daily life for you and others.
Especially when there is another fix for it that does not have this issue of making the user deadly to other people.
Dude could read a book and watch TV at the same time
😂
Me and you, will drink beers in hell bother :D
Can i join with you both
gun akimbo
He's got his FOV turned up, essential for gaming performance
Im an Optician from Germany and we had a Bifocal lense called an Ardis (I think at least, they're really rare nowadays) where you could put in up to 3 different lens powers in basically any orientation you want. So you could put one reading plane up top with a specific distance for your sights and still your regular reading plane in the bottom.
These are called "occupational" lenses. You can have bifocals both top and bottom. I have glasses like this. Works well for working overhead as well. Such as installing a light on the ceiling. Cheers!
… and working under cars, either on a hoist or you lying on your back. Makes all the difference in the world for your quality of work life past age 45 or thereabouts.
Hmm, I guess I should change opticians because I brought up this problem to my optician and he told me there wasn’t much that could be done about it.
Yes we used to call them plumber glasses
Still badass after all those years.
I did this decades ago and found it difficult to get done. I was an electrician and needed to see the small labels on the ends of the wires, it is like you showed difficult to see them with your head tilted back, much easier when you can lean into them. The optician at first told me it wasn't possible, nearly 3 months later he found someone to show him how simple it is to do i guess. I still order my work glasses this way today.
Nowadays, it’s just a checkbox on the program on the machine. So it’s machine specific to some degree, I did service on said machines for a company; and for us it was dead simple. 8yr old software now roughly.
May want to consider another optician; my mother, an accountant, had tri-focals made over 50 years ago so she could use a computer at work.
As I got older I had my glasses made with the progressive glass that changes as your eye moves down the sight plane. It really works well in competition and self defense scenarios as you can see at all distances w/o a marked line of distance or close vision. it is great for both handguns and long guns to get on target quickly and actually SEE! I have followed Massad Ayoob for many years. Always the deadpan sage.
This has been my problem exactly. Finally an answer!
You can get them both top and bottom. My dad was an airline pilot, with dials above and below his head he actually had 5 sections, normal in the center and two above and two below- this was before transition lenses.
Are pilots allowed to get lasik?'
I feel as though those lenses has to be pretty expensive
You mean progressive lenses. Transitions lenses are the ones that automatically tint and untint
@@collinholbrook5820 not really they're about as expensive as a normal bifocal some places will charge like another 30-50 for it, we call them double D or occupational lenses.
This guy has got to be the fitness gram pacer test voice actor.
Thanks for the solution. Years of front sight focus went out the window when I got bifocals. I knew there had to be a solution.
Massad Ayoob's "In the Gravest Extreme" is what should be the textbook for concealed carry (at least in part) and this tip is priceless for old people, although my "active" glasses are single vision for this reason.
One of the Postmasters in my town had glasses with top and bottom of the frame. He needed it because much of his reading was above his eyes.
Being a new bifocal user, I would have never thought it was an option to reverse the focal points.
Excellent, I did exactly that 30 years ago. My optician thought I was nuts.
I feel looked at and overlooked at the same time.
I thought I knew a thing or two, but I consistently learn something new from this guy. Thank you Sir.
I experienced the same thing and had the optician move it up a bit and it made a world of difference. I had good insurance so it wasn't a big deal.
It’s always perfect too! When you are intensely reading NO ONE BOTHERS YOU! It’s perfect!
This guy is giving us a million dollars in game, for free. Big respect
The only lens style that can accommodate of of Massads ideas is called an Occupational Bifocal or ‘The double D’. A good conversation with your Optometrist about use and expectations is a good start. An experienced Optician will know what that lens is. PS. This lens will be phased out eventually IMO.
An optimitrest in PineBluff AR called them Mechanics glasses. They work well under a car.
Exactly
The Prussian Officer technique... Boy, seen that hundreds of times and never had a term for it. Thx Massad!
So I have been using the Prussian Officer's Technique. Learned something.
Thanks. Chief
This mans videos were heavily featured in my ccw class. I was proud to be the only 357 wheel gun in the group.
I used my Smith and Wesson model 17 with the 8⅜" barrel in my CCW class. It was a surprise for the rest of the participants because they thought such a big revolver was going to have a big bang. Something happened in the classroom that didn't go the way the instructor planned. He chose me for a demonstration of situational awareness by throwing a chalkboard eraser at me as a surprise. Fortunately for me, I was paying attention more intently than he expected and instead of cringing and maybe trying to block the eraser, I reached out and caught it in front of me. He was good and even though I reacted unexpectedly, he adapted to the surprising response and barely missed a beat. I think he chose me for the demonstration because I have the physical appearance of a dullard and a heavy Texas like drawl. Those attributes are probably what have contributed to my desire to be smarter than I look.
Great example of a responsible, sensible man and good clean jokes.
As an Optician. I have fit many occupational glasses for law inforcement and pilots. Great video.
As an unfortunate person who suffers from having to wear bifocals for the last 6 or 7 years, I had never considered this. I didn't even know I could ask them to put the close up part on top. This would save my neck a whole lot of strain. Thank you.
My dad worked on overhead wiring avionics. Had Bifocals on the top back in the 70s. Kept him from getting such a crick in his neck.
I did the same jobs for years and had those glasses they are great and now im retired I still use them! When working in an aircraft alot of your work is overhead!
As an auto mechanic. I did this years ago. Now the only time I wear my bifocals is driving. The rest of the time my regular glasses. Buy the way I still train with both. As a matter of fact I'm training again on Saturday. Wahoo. I shoot about 4k rounds a year, through my 3 carry guns. Take care everyone 😊
Dang. I’m an auto mechanic too, and up til now I’ve just been dropping cars on people as a means of self-defense.
Are you related to John Lobato?
Wahoo was the name of a submarine.
Wahoo was the name of a submarine.
Great lesson... I have tried for years to get mine fixed like but no joy... time to try again...thanks Mas
Makes sense and honestly might do my grandfather some good. Thanks sir.
I was thinking the same thing! My grandfather just turned 82 a couple weeks ago and his eyes just aren't what they used to be...😅
Live fast. Die young. Leave a good looking corpse.
This man can shoot two targets at once! Never underestimate this man.
Works very well!!
Many years ago, my dad had a pair of glasses made just for flying, with the "reading plane" on the bottom, with the line raised slightly, so he did not have to rock his head back to read the instruments. Some instruments were above the windscreen, so he could still read those with the thin reading plane on top of the lenses.
I work in a lab and often have to read instruments elevated on the bench, so I had a set of these glasses made. My eye doctor referred to them as "plumber glasses" and "mechanic glasses".
What I found is that they worked great for shooting. I suggest having the top reading plane prescribed so that it focuses clearly on the front sight of your gun, which is usually farther than the prescription for normal reading.
Find an eye doctor that understands this. Luckily, I have an excellent one that is a shooter himself.
Ok, this is the one, this is the short that finally convinced me to subscribe, as someone who wears glasses, (non bifocals but ill get there in about 15 or 20 years), this should come in handy
Massad is a American treasure that not a lot people know of. The gun community is gonna be hurt the day we loose people like him and Hickock45. They should do a video together comparing guns and methods and how theve changed over the years or something. Idk I'd watch it
Optometrists argue with me every time I order bigger bifocals. IDK if any of them even need bifocals, they're just arrogant.
This is why you need an ophthalmologist (an MD) - not an optometrist . A day after picking up a new pair of contact lenses I went to the range and discovered I was newly blur blind. Went back to my ophthalmologist, whose intake form contained nothing about participation in shooting activities. She and her husband are both competitive shooters and she completed my opening sentence. She re-did the Rx and I was out in less than 10 minutes - problem solved. Most MDs (myself included) don’t routinely ask about shooting activities so SAY SOMETHING ABOUT IT if you want it to play a part in your care. I’m now retired so you’re safe from me.
Yeah I have had one argue with me that I saw better with one brand over the other. Out in the world's conditions I could see more clearly with Acuvue. In office conditions I saw more clearly with Ceva Vision. He wouldn't let me buy the acuvue. I chose a new optometrist and now get to purchase what works best for me not what they want me to have.
@@michaelmoody3737I e hated acuvue since I've started it. I had Cooper Vision before, and they were perfect, but my acuvues don't last as long, dry out quickly, get very thin quickly, scratch my eyes, etc... And they're more expensive! Can't recommend
@@slypperyfox can't disagree with you strongly enough, most ophthalmologists very rarely refract or prescribe glasses, they have their technicians (who don't have optical experience) refract for them and do the glasses part. An optometrist spends every day working specifically with glasses and coming up with unique solutions to all manners of patients unique and specific needs (shooters, archers, pool players, electricians, musicians, pilots to name a few). 95% of MDs are too busy with managing diabetes, glaucoma, macular degeneration, etc to regularly or effectively help with glasses. The key is to let the person who is doing your glasses know what specific or odd activities you struggle doing or need to see better when doing so they can make a proper recommendation/design for you.
@@jonathanszczerba612 My comment was strictly a “one-off” anecdote of a personal experience. The person who prescribed my lenses did so based on a standardized “left eye dominant” quick office test . Yeah, I’m left eye dominant but was taught to shoot right eyed over 50 years ago and have stayed with what works ever since. And, to the person who saw me initially, no discussions of hobbies, or shooting sports were ever brought up and I was happily surprised that my ophthalmologist and her husband were both competitive shooters. She knew what I was going to say before i ever said it and solved my problem. She fixed both of my wife’s advanced cataracts before they got worse and now, for the first time since elementary school, she doesn’t have to wear glasses or contacts! I’m the hypertensive diabetic in the family and none of my eye markers have shown any progressed
My father just purchased his first handgun and doesn’t enjoy shooting and can’t acquire his target when we go plink, I honestly never thought of this being the problem. Makes perfect sense though
The Prussian officer joke killed me xD
10/10
Nope. Put the magnification on one lense and distance rx on the other. Shoot with both eyes open and you’ll see the sight and target clearly.
Better yet, for old eyes, use an RDO. (I know Ken. I know…)
Least tactical elder citizen
Not sure why I watch these videos as an Australian
Because some day you might be a citizen and not a subject.
Rise up, take the power back. If the Emus can do it, so can you.
I enjoy that no matter the camera angle, he's always looking at us to get the point across.
I have found the use of bi-focals is so true as I had the whole firing line, stop turn to my modified Weaver stance with my bi-focal stance... That surely made the point (rough-crowd) and realized that is a stupid look. However, with my top section of the glasses works much better with a red dot and back to regular Weaver
Love it! 😂
I have transition lenses and I must say, thank you for addressing this.
I haven’t had any issues adjusting to them; however, I will be ordering another pair with your suggestion in mind!
So simple, yet so intuitive…
Thanks again.
Reading glasses have near focal point, 6-8 inches. Intermediate reading (for computers) is about 12-16 inches.
That is a good idea, because when you are walking you eyes glance down and seeing is blurry on the ground.
This ground blurriness can cause you to trip over something.
I have trifocals and the tri lens focuses on my front sight. That's why I had my glasses made that way, as trifocals.
I fixed it with a Red Dot.
Friend invited his gf’s brother last time we went and he has one on a 17 and I think I know what I’m blowing my next paycheck on, only thing is sending it off to get milled is spooky
You can also have the reading plane put in the bottom as well as the top so you can read normally and then acquire sights the way you're explaining it
Thnk You ,
New info ALWAYS APPRECIATED !
Perfectly thought out. Thank you, Mas.
I worked with Mechanic that had the bifocal in the top. He was always under a car looking up. Worked out great.
Today I learned that Massad Ayoob has a sense of humor.
I didn't know you could get the reading plane in the top. I just thought you had to settle for the bottom. Both sets of grandparents wore bifocals and it looks like I'm about to go that route as well. Thank you for the tip, I'll be sure to ask for the reading plane in the top.
Excellent sir ! I will be changing to the different reading plane . Thanks for the great information !
Helpful, thank you again Mas.
This is the best piece of information. I've gotten being an older shooter who wears bifocals
Always great life saving information
the bit about moving the reading pane is priceless. gonna have to see if i can get that done. i hate having to wear glasses but you know....getting older, blinder, meaner....
They make prescription glasses that are called, double D glasses. You have magnification at top and bottom. I have them for work and everyday. They're very handy.
I had a pair of safety glasses made with the top and bottom bifocal and the middle regular prescription and they worked great.
As always the best training and information from a examplry subject matter EXPERT.
Well, this whole string is a big help for me. I finally had to break down and get prescription glasses (at 64), and it was shooting issues that did it. Now, I have the same issue he describes (but my red do is actually a dot now lol). Now I know what to ask for!
I worked for the phone company back in the day the "old timers" had bifocals at the top and bottom of their glasses (so they could fix lines seated or overhead).
Just found Massad recently. I like him! He's a trip. About as sharp as they come.
Excellent tip. Love it. Tyvm.
Ive had mine like that for years now… luv ya Mas
Changing the convenience of reading some thing you’ll do every single day to improve the outside chance that you might be getting into a gun fight. This is the most American thing I’ve ever heard, compromising literal literacy to be better at shooting guns.
That's a very good idea in any situation; thanks!
Wish I heard this when I was in the Army.
What he’s describing is a half “occupational glasses.”
Occupational glasses have a top and bottom reading lens.
Used when precision over your head work is the job.
I've always wanted to know how to correct this.
Thank you sir
When working as a residential electrician I also have bifocals with the reading plane on top so that it was easier to see the wires I was working with, especially when wiring devices like ceiling fans. I just carried two pair of safety glasses, one normal and one for wiring.
Multifocals have been in existence as long as my 84year old father can remember.
They allow him to read, drive and shoot without performing cranial acrobatics.
I never thought of that. I'm a few years from bifocals but its good to know
Another great tip. Thank you.
I don’t know why, but his voice is on the same level of soothing as that of Morgan Freeman
It’s good to see you Mas.
As an old guy working on military aircraft I learned that glasses are available with the readers top and bottom. Precision work over head then on the bench without continuous switching glasses. Should work great for shooting. Everyone who set up their glasses this way were very satisfied
Wilson brand safety glasses have readers in both top and bottom of the min lens. Great tip