Enhancing PRS/Shooting Vision

By Les Voth - Bix'n Andy USA

I recently had the privilege of riding a golf cart at the 2026 B&T Ind. LLC Box Canyon Showdown . . . Suppressors Only! PRS match. Finishing a solid, well deserved 108th, I was very happy to not end up in last place.

Vision was a thing I was trying to get ahead of this year. One of the steps taken to get ahead of the vision thing was aquiring a Vortex Gen 3 Razor. Three days before showing up in Kansas that scope was installed. 

Since my long range shooting pursuit began in 2016 with a Weaver Kaspa 12X looking glass, I’ve stayed in the budget range until this year (2026). At Box Canyon I saw every single target I missed, and the ones I impacted, too! I saw some of my own trace, lots of splash - on and off targets. It was a revelation.

The day before leaving North Dakota for Kansas, an eye surgeon in Fargo lasered a secondary cataract out of my right (shooting/sighting) eye, so the fog was gone by Friday afternoon. That improved clarity, combined with the Razor, opened my world to new possibilities, and reminded me of a series of interviews following the 2024 AG Cup.

Walking away after the match, shooters were asked what aspiring competitors should spend their money on to improve their chances of “climbing the ranks” in the sport. The most common answer was - GLASS! “Buy once, cry once” was the cliche put out by the majority of those questioned, until Francis Colon spoke.

Francis said, “Run a scope that tracks,  spend your money on powder and bullets, and shoot/practice - alot!” That was validation for this budget shooter to keep running inexpensive glass. With each eye having now gone through three separate surgeries over the past 28 years, a Razor on an Impact in an Elite with a perfect Bixn Andy Competition trigger, what's the final piece in the vision equation?

Asking another four-eyed shooter who’d accomplished great feats a few years ago, I got an unanticipated answer. He’d walked into his optometrist’s office with a scoped action in a stock with a mounted bipod. Going prone, he said,”How can I see through my scope better than I do, or as well as someone who doesn’t need glasses?”

The optometrist cut his new shooting glasses lenses with the lens’ focal point naturally at the spot he’d be looking through while in a shooting position. His shooting skills/world improved immediately! Time to go see Dr. R.!