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The eye doctor told me last year that I was starting to get that, but had a few more years before an operation to address it would be needed. Not looking forward to it.

My main problem is the damned floaters. I have to view the world through a floating screen of obstructions, and the worst part of them often settles on the front sight of whatever firearm I'm shooting. They tell me there's nothing they can do about that.

I had to google the floater stuff. People I know and myself have the same problem but not the way you have. Seems odd!

The operation to heal my cataract was nothing to be afraid of. O. k. I was quite a little bit nervous but at same time two of my co-workers had the same and a few years ago to others. Another, now almost 80 years old underwent the same treatment on both eyes within two weeks. His commentary: finally I was able to see rain again. Til the there was only a grey mass pouring down. No I can see the drops and strands again. I always wonder how he managed to drive a car and shoot a gun....

I've had the "floaters" all my life. Like little squiggly spots that look like wads of hair or something. My eyesight is not cloudy or anything, it's just sometimes a little harder to focus on things than it used to be. Some days are better than others.

My close up vision went to crap very suddenly about 7 years ago, when I had BAD sinus pressure for a very long time. It was so bad, it was making it hard to focus on anything. When the sinus crap finally went away, my long distance vision came back to me. My close up vision never did. I used to have probably 20-10 vision, and could see to file the notches on a tumbler holding it 6 or 8 inches from my face.... no longer. A few years ago I was down to 20-15, and now 20-20....

My floaters started out like that, i.e., just shapes here and there sometimes getting in front of my point of focus, but now (especially in my right eye) there are so many interconnected floaters that it's like a floating screen that's too big to ever float out of the way. It was a gradual accumulation over many years.

Someone at the Fire once told me, like seven or eight years ago, that he went to an eye doctor for his and he laser blasted them away. I mentioned that to my eye doctor, and he seemed completely unaware of this and uninterested in it. He's pretty useless.

Mine don't move (other than moving along with my eyes), and fortunately, none of them are dead center, so they don't mess with aiming! I did have a car battery blow up in my face once many years ago, and it left a spot on my right eye that was interfering with the peep sight on my Garand, and that irked me quite a bit! Fortunately, that finally went away!

These are the wood grips that came on the gun.





They're actually kinda nice, but there's no way magna grips will work with my hands, even with grip adapters.

I think I have a rear sight figured out. I would like a white outline, but the modern made white outline blades SUCK pretty badly. Old ones (if you can find one) that have the white line painted into a groove like they should be, are usually beat all to crap.... so... I found a Millett replacement blade with the "longhorn" white outline, which I like very much, that I can put on a Millett rear sight assembly that is currently on another gun (with a plain black blade), so I can swap them suckers out! Woo hoo!

Also working on a new crossdraw holster for it.

Stophel: Seeing those grips in your hand confirms my worry.
Good luck on gathering the accoutrements for your nifty new pistol.
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VarmintGuy

I really like Model 67s. I got this no-dash first year production 67 a few years ago from a friend for a good deal ($350). Hardly carried or used. I took the numbered magnas off and put them away, and put these smooth targets on it. It is accurate and an easy shooter. Very nice revolvers.