ehb102
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Ed Lyons at Flint & Partners of course.
Subtitle: You don't have to be called Ed for ShootClay to love you, but it helps.
Ed had generously shared his expertise with me via messaging here, sending me all kinds of information about my choices for shooting glasses.
Having had a consultation with Ed I can say this:
(1) I have a much better prescription that will improve my vision considerably. It was time for a new prescription anyway, but I've had high street assessments for several years. This was more detailed and might even be more accurate i.e. working in smaller increments especially as regards the numbers marked 'axis', thus a better result.
(2) I will be getting the most suitable shooting glasses possible for me personally. I got to look through different styles and see how they looked. They aren't all the same. I can see so much more through the ones I chose.
(3) Not having the consultation would have been a false economy.
(4) Ed volunteered several other things to help with my eye health generally.
I can't claim that my shooting will be improved by my visit to Ed, but that's because almost anything would improve my shooting at this stage. What I will say is that once I get my shooting glasses I will at least know I have as much chance to improve as anyone else.
Subtitle: You don't have to be called Ed for ShootClay to love you, but it helps.
Ed had generously shared his expertise with me via messaging here, sending me all kinds of information about my choices for shooting glasses.
Having had a consultation with Ed I can say this:
(1) I have a much better prescription that will improve my vision considerably. It was time for a new prescription anyway, but I've had high street assessments for several years. This was more detailed and might even be more accurate i.e. working in smaller increments especially as regards the numbers marked 'axis', thus a better result.
(2) I will be getting the most suitable shooting glasses possible for me personally. I got to look through different styles and see how they looked. They aren't all the same. I can see so much more through the ones I chose.
(3) Not having the consultation would have been a false economy.
(4) Ed volunteered several other things to help with my eye health generally.
I can't claim that my shooting will be improved by my visit to Ed, but that's because almost anything would improve my shooting at this stage. What I will say is that once I get my shooting glasses I will at least know I have as much chance to improve as anyone else.
Ed showed me several filters so I could see the differences and I took away the polarised ones. I was sold on these when a lady was missing what looked like a reasonably breakable clay. I tried her glasses on and found that what I saw as an easy orange clay was actually a pink one that her glasses made invisible until way past the break point! Coach Ed very kindly organised a trap for us and I got to shoot to test the new specs and filter. I can see. It's a miracle! My glasses are desperately uncool looking, but they are really, really light and I forget they are there. Now I have the right gun, the right specs and the right coach I shall be UNSTOPPABLE! Or at the very least, overly keen for a while longer :-D
