Physical limitations with firearm shooting especially with age related issue.

[King Rat]

Rotator cuff pain

[JohnR]

Back pain.

[340pd]

Eyes

[340pd]

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[340pd]

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[340pd]

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[JohnR]

Did this become the October Oddities thread? ;)

[jeepster09]

Yes....

[tokuno]

Iirc, I began cooking my own fried bologna when I was five or six years old.
Loved it with thin-sliced dill pickles and mayo on toast.
I never scored it on the quadrants, though. Either uncut and squashed saucer-shape between the bread slices, or with one score to flatten it, but then I'd overlap two pieces so I wouldn't have a bologna gap in my sandwich.

I ran a straw poll in the office last year, and got a lot of weird expressions. None of the whippersnappers in my circle seem to be acquainted with the finer things of life.
The one Australian gal I asked said they call it 'devon' down under, and she was raised vegetarian; neither ate it nor heard of anyone frying it.

The poll results inspired me to introduce my kids to gustatory bliss. My wife demurred - I heard the word "stench" in her declination. Imagine that it took me almost 40 years to discover that I was paired with a knuckle-dragging oaf.

Mmmmm . . . fried bologna . . .

Oh, and age-related physical limitations: vision :(


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[Armybrat]

Rotator cuff pain

Arthritis in wrist, hands, & shoulders.
Gave my .45s and .44magnums to my sons.
So now the max I’ll shoot are 9mm and .38 Specials.

[getsome]

Rotator cuff pain

It would take much less space to list the things that don’t hurt but I still shoot just no big magnums or 12 gauge unless somebody is kicking in the front door…..

[Barth]

It would take much less space to list the things that don’t hurt but I still shoot just no big magnums or 12 gauge unless somebody is kicking in the front door…..

Yup, Yup, no more full power magnums for me (357 or 44).
Like my Shockwave for 12 gauge work (no shoulder stock).
Added muzzle brakes to my 308 rifles.
Service caliber pistols don't bother me at all :)
I'm scheduled to retire from work next year...

[Barth]

Didn't fry bologna much.
The econo meat frying was mostly Spam.
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[berettabone]

Vision............................ring bologna, boiled first then cut into coins. Ketchup or brown mustard. MMMmmmm. Can still shoot the big caliber handguns...........

[Bawanna]

Pain is a reminder that your still alive. Don't shoot em near enough but I still like my big guns.

[ripley16]

Not so much age related, I'm 70 for what it's worth, but last November I had a rather traumatic impact injury to my dominant eye. As a result I lost partial vision and can no longer use regular iron sights. I've been switching to lasers and red dot sights. Using my left eye works but just isn't the same.

Age related, I have arthritis in my hands, shoulders and back. Mainly resulting in my hands hurting after only a few rounds of center fired ammo. I usually shoot two to three hundred rounds a week. Lately about half of that is rimfire. At least I can still hold a pretty firm and steady sight picture.

[kenemoore]

Vision...if I shoot a box of .357 magnums, my hand hurts for a few days. Plus have an artificial knee in one leg, and a titanium rod and screws in the other side shin. Vision bothers me the most. If I wear glasses to see the front sight crisply, the target is blurry. No glasses, I can see the target, but sights are blurry. I have been practicing with blurry sights. I do okay 10 yards or closer. I figure, if the SHTF, I won't have my glasses on when it occurs.

[King Rat]

Rotator cuff pain

This is a update on my Rotator cuff pain. As I mentioned, For well over a year the pain increased. I could no longer even use my draw arm to go toward the real without horrible pain. I had to switch from drawing from my holster on my strong arm side to cross draw. Drawing was too painful.

Now after going to a Chiropractor and religiously doing stretch and strengthening exercises the Pain is 99% gone. I can now draw again from the strong side. The biggest exercise or stretch actually came from finding a using a bar and hanging from it for about three sets of 10 seconds.
Point-sometimes you are doomed. But not always. Do the research and work to remove the issue. Start slowly and you will see small increments of improvement. I used the Internet for different stretches. And there is a book out just for "Hanging" stretch.
Before the exercises, I truly believed my shooting days were over. I am even back to shooting my shotguns which i love.

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[dao]

Good for you KR! Getting old is not for sissies, and you're certainly no sissy. It's tough to give up the things we enjoy as we age. I'm glad this is one that you won't have to.

[yqtszhj]

You nailed it. Stretching is the key. It’s not always the funnest thing to do but with perseverance and dedication the great rewards are worth it. My wife tried to get me to do stretching for YEARS and I wouldn’t do it. It took me finding myself in a bad spot before I started stretching and training with light dumbbells but it works. And between stretching and weight training, I say stretching is more important, in my case anyway.

[Bawanna]

Somebody called me a light dumbbell once. Guess I should have been offended.

[yqtszhj]

Somebody called me a light dumbbell once. Guess I should have been offended.

Nah, you’re good. If they used it in a derogatory manner they didn’t know what they were saying because that’s where it’s at. Besides, if you run out of ammo, hit the bad guy in the head by throwing a light dumbbell and they won’t be getting up.

[Bawanna]

Has to be as effective as a 380.......or I could just toss a 45 slug. :behindsofa:

[Armybrat]

Hey, don’t be makin’ fun of my new LCP Max…..I still have one .45:

[Bawanna]

And she's a beauty too! Since you still got the 45 you can take that paper sack off your head.

[K75RT]

Arthritic hands but I still can work with them, I stretch and use spring grippers. Those non-captive recoil spring assemblies can be a pain. I keep at it with some weights and stretching. I have made gains yet they are slow. I still can shoot the .357 and .44 but not like I used too! Too many years of running a jack hammers doing bridge deck work and removing "haunches" on bridges. Haunches were a bridge length section of unreinforced concrete that ran longitudinally with the bridge, they were added to the deck form bottom for ballast in the 1960's and started to fail in the 90's. By the time I started to do bridge work we spent many a night using rivet busters to remove these poorly thought out haunches, all work was overhead using a rivet buster. I had my eyes tested this year and my cataracts are no better or worse, I can still see a front sight! I tore the meniscus in my left knee last year and they want to do a replacement. I keep stretching it and moving it and it has improved, long standing or walking is not much fun though. I can't complain, my general health is very good!

[Ken L]

K75RT, I tore my meniscus about 6-7 years back when elk hunting. Had surgery to repair it (really just clean up the torn bits) and it was fine for a few years. Until arthritis set in. Cortisone shots worked for a bit, but I had to get them more frequently each time. Went under the knife this February for a total knee replacement. Not gonna lie, initially it wasn't too fun. But I can walk pain free, and have resumed most normal stuff. I guess what I'm saying is if you can skip the "repair" step and go right to "replacement" I'd suggest going for it.

[NeilWise]

As for me I'm quite young to observe such issues, but I can tell you what problems my father faced with age.

My dad is a great example of this. He's 67 y. o. He's a lifelong hunter and shooter, but over the past few years, his eyesight has gotten to the point where iron sights are a struggle. He's had to switch to using red dot sights on his rifles, which has helped a lot. He's also noticed his grip strength isn't what it used to be, so he's gravitated towards lighter rifles for hunting.
However, surprisingly, his reaction time and dexterity didn't change at all.

It broke my heart a little to see him struggling with something he's always been so good at