Shooting post surgery

[HighUintas]

I finally worked up the nerve to get out to try to shoot again, 2 weeks post eye vitrectomy. My vision is clearing pretty well but the pupil is still very dilated and acuity is not great.

I went to the range and shot at 100yd with my 58 flintlock. I decided to go with my hunting load since it's well zeroed for 100 and I haven't shot it since September.

0.570 ball, 100gr 2f swiss, 0.020 minute men patch with frontiers bear lube. This patching is seriously awesome. I recommend getting some.

I first tried shooting normally. I can see the front sight decently well and clearly, but the black bull completely disappeared in a blur of white when trying to aim. 5 shots.... And I gave up and switched to left handed haha




Then switched to left handed, which is the first time I've ever shot lefty! It was kinda fun. 7 shots. I was going to shoot 10 but then realized I didn't have any more of those balls in my pouch so ended my day early.

[Hungry Horse]

 Don’t be afraid to shoot lefty. Back when I hunted deer a lot one popped up unexpectedly. I whirled and fired automatically, and the deer went down. My hunting buddy said do you know what you just did. I said I shot a nice buck. He said you shot him left handed. It surprised my hunting partner because unlike him I was not left handed. Most people can train themselves to do a lot of things left handed, most don’t try it.
 My father was a natural born lefty, that was retrained in school to write with his right hand. When he was in the hospital and coming out of surgery he was acting like he was using pruning shears with both hands. The nurse asked me what he was doing. I told her he was pruning pear trees. She said “but he was using both hands”. I said he prunes with two pairs of shears, and a hydraulic self propelled pruning tower. She just rolled her eyes.