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A 20 gauge in an SX3 doesn't move.
Doctors are stupid.
Dave
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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PS-Did eyeball get banned or something?
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Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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PS-Did eyeball get banned or something?
Clark Bin must pay you a quarterly dividend. 
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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Eyeball was kind enough to give me his professional advice in the past.
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I also have a question for a shooting optometrist, but it's a completely different one.
I'm legally blind (20/600) in my dominant eye, but I wear high-index glasses that correct me back to 20/20. When I shoot a long gun, I find myself working out of the corner of my right glasses lens. This results in a fair amount of chromatic aberration, which means that I tend to print to the right and a little low on reddish targets and to the left and a little high on bluish targets.
For personal reasons, I don't want to wear contacts.
How realistic would it be for me to get a pair of glasses where the right lens had its optical center up in the corner, where I'd be looking through it when I was shooting? I'd get chromatic aberration when I was looking straight through the lens, but it wouldn't affect my aim with a long gun.
Thanks! FWIW there are specialist shooting glasses which allow you to put the optical centre of the lens for the aiming eye exactly where you want it. Knobloch is one name which springs to mind. Here's one of their models: ![[Linked Image]](http://www.knobloch-schiessbrillen.de/files/knobloch-bilder/schiessbrillen/K1.jpg)
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I'm an optician, not a doctor, but I had a different occurance that led me down the "reduce the recoil" road. I had heart failure three years ago and have a difibrillator/pacemaker. My heart doctor said I should cut back on recoil. I've done my hunting with a 30-06 or a 300 Savage. Shotgun's have been 12 ga. pumps.
I bought a Savage Axis in .243. Carried it one season and absolutely hated it. 'Went back to my .300 Savage with somebeautiful shooting light reloads, courtesy of our own MILES58. Never looked back. No "triggers" of the pacemaker to date.
As for shotguns, I went to gas operated semi-automatics. No issues there either. Do you need 12 gauge? Maybe a 20 gauge would be enough for what you're doing. The new stuff handles light loads much better. If you want to stay with a 12 bore, maybe just run some lighter loads, just to be safe.
Another thing that would help is a good recoil pad. If you don't want to pay good money to a gunsmith to professionally mount a recoil pad, consider a Limbsaver, slip on boot style recoil pad.
Good luck with your solution.
molɔ̀ːn labé skýla
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Thanks to all those who gave me good advice. I am much more optimistic about my chances of avoiding another surgery.
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Before you go 20 gauge, consider a semi 12. My Beretta 390 functions well with light 3/4 or 7/8 loads Basically lighter 20 loads, in a heavier gun, that's gas operated. Very light recoil, plus it still shooters 3" 12 gauge mags. Many semis won't function these loads, this one surprised me.
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
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Before you go 20 gauge, consider a semi 12. My Beretta 390 functions well with light 3/4 or 7/8 loads Basically lighter 20 loads, in a heavier gun, that's gas operated. Very light recoil, plus it still shooters 3" 12 gauge mags. Many semis won't function these loads, this one surprised me. Good info here. I had a Smith and Wesson semi-auto that would eat the light stuff too. If you go semi-auto regardless of what gauge, don't get recoil operated, get gas operated. Stay away from stuff like the Browning A-5. The gas operated guns help with the recoil.
molɔ̀ːn labé skýla
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If you don't plan on hunting waterfowl, a 28 gauge will do everything you need. My Weatherby SA-08 has zero recoil and only weighs 5.5 lbs. beautiful gun and affordable too. http://www.weatherby.com/products/shotguns/sa-08tm-deluxe.html
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