Hope there is one on here that will respond as my doctor is a non shooter or hunter and would likely just give average advice of "dont do anything for a week or two"
Ask your surgeon. I had both of mine done in 2012. If I remember correctly, it takes the implanted lense several weeks to securely attach inside your eye. I'm thinking 4 to 6 weeks. Your surgeon can answer your question. I had mine done a couple of months before deer season so there wouldn't be a problem.
Friend had cataract surgery on a Tuesday, shot fifty targets at trap the next day. When he had the second eye done, the subject of shooting came up. Doc said at least a week, better two. When my friend told him he had shot the next day after the first one, the doc chewed him out, said he was very lucky not to have damaged the eye.
When I had both my eyes done several years ago my surgeon told me to lay off any recoil for a couple of weeks at least. Fear of detached retina I think he said. He was also a shooter so I believed him.
Yup....had mine done in August and the good-looking Doc was not terribly concerned but did recommend two weeks before shooting high recoil stuff. She was more concerned about safety glasses to prevent injury after surgery.
Worked out just fine and three weeks later I was shooting heavy goose loads.
Doc Eyeball will know the answer. I'd trust whatever he says.
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good advice from folks here....I had my shooting eye done several years ago and never asked as I didn't think of it.....I really can't see that the recoil of something like a .243 or .257 Roberts would hurt a thing....but the smart thing is to ask someone that knows.
New techniques now often use clear corneal incisions with no sutures. Base of thumb to eye on shot or significant jar could open the suture-less incision and aqueous humor would be released from the anterior chamber of the eye resulting in vitreous prolapse and retinal detachment in essentially a flat eye. The iris and lens implant would impinge on the corneal endothelium and the cornea would de compensate (dissolve).
This is not even contemplating the possibility of retinal detachment as a result of vitreous traction in a recently traumatized eye.
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Generally cataracts aren't an emergency, so schedule that surgery around hunting season.
I had a macular hole necessitating a vitrectomy last Spring. The gas bubble they put in the eye causes a cataract. So, I'm seeing halos and blurred vision out of that eye and know that's what I have.
Thankfully, my shooting eye is corrected to 20/20. In fact, I just got back from the range, shooting my 26 Nosler and .240, both going half MOA at 400 yds. Shot my 6.5-284 a little over an inch at 400 a few weeks ago. That's pushing a quarter MOA. So, I can still shoot and see, at least out of one eye.
Cataract surg.? Not me, not now. Maybe this Spring...
My cataract surgery a few years ago was done by a doctor who happened to be a shooter. I asked that very question. He told me that after about a month when healing would be complete, it was OK to shoot anything you would normally shoot from your shoulder. He said the only eye damage he had seen was when people let their scopes hit them in the eye.
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This was a good thread to find, had my right eye done this morning, follow up appointment is tomorrow. I will ask Dr about recovery time to shoot. It was so easy. I need to beat my own ass for not having this done years ago. Even with this patch with holes over my eye, my vision is way better already. I’m a Dumass.
