Massad Ayoob's Tips for Older Shooters - Bifocals

Massad Ayoob has been asked to give some advice to older shooters. As an older shooter himself, Mas plenty of tips to offer. From hands, fingers, backs and eyes Mas covers it all.

Critical Mas(s) with Massad Ayoob is a show that provides expert analysis over a wide range of contemporaneous topics related to civilian and law enforcement self-defense, the use of force, and second amendment issues, provided by a renowned and established author with a career spanning decades in training law enforcement officers and the public at large, who is frequently called upon to provide expert witness testimony.

ABOUT MASSAD AYOOB:
Massad Ayoob has been handgun editor of GUNS magazine and law enforcement columnist for AMERICAN HANDGUNNER since the 1970s and has published thousands of articles in gun magazines, martial arts publications, and law enforcement journals. He is the author of some twenty books on firearms, self-defense, and related topics, including “In the Gravest Extreme” and “Deadly Force,” widely considered to be authoritative texts on the topic of the use of lethal force.

The winner of the Outstanding American Handgunner of the Year Award in 1998, Mas has won several state and regional handgun shooting championships. Ayoob was the first person to earn the title of Five Gun Master in the International Defensive Pistol Association. He is the current President of the Second Amendment Foundation. He served 19 years as chair of the Firearms Committee of the American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers, and several years as a member of the Advisory Board of the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association. In addition to teaching for those groups, he has also taught
for the International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors and the International Homicide Investigators seminars.

Mas has received judicial recognition as an expert witness for the courts in weapons and shooting cases since 1979, and served as a fully sworn and empowered, part-time police officer for 43 years, mostly at supervisor rank. Ayoob founded the Lethal Force Institute in 1981 and served as its director until 2009, and now trains through Massad Ayoob Group. He has
appeared on CLE-TV delivering continuing legal education for attorneys, through the American Law Institute and American Bar Association, and has been retained to train attorneys to handle deadly force cases through the Armed Citizens Legal Defense Network. Ayoob served for two
years as co-vice chair of the Forensic Evidence Committee of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He also appeared in each episode of Personal Defense TV (Sportsman’s Channel).

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[ethanschoonbeck]

Watching Massad Ayoob say "die scum"! was priceless.

[omega]

There is another configuration that was created for airline pilots who had to look straight ahead through the window but had instrument panels bothe above and below the window. It was called "Double D" because it had the two reading "planes". As an Auto Mechanic, I had to work under the dashboard for example, and it required looking down through the top of my glasses at close up things. The Twin close-focus areas solved that problem and still allowed normal posture while reading.

[Klepto]

For whatever reason, hearing Massad say "die scum" in the same cadence as his normal speaking voice had me cackling

[cirano]

After this, I'm gonna be reading my books in a fighting stance

[handsomejamesgrandinternet]

I never doubted his skill in firearms operating and teaching. But you gotta stop and appreciate the man’s sophisticated sense of humour

[sergeidragunov]

From watching this short. I love this guy and his teaching and jokes. A all around package of a content creator

[wendya.presley]

I luv massad he's a great teacher

[Boopadoop]

Beautiful voice… how is that man not heard all through Hollywood

[georgegravette]

No matter what the configuration of your eyeglasses is, the fact remains that you can only see through one part of them at a time. Sharp target/blurry sights OR blurry target/sharp sights. I've worn glasses for decades. My personal solution was to install laser sights on my carry guns. Now it's blurry sights/sharp target/sharp LASER DOT ON TARGET.

[GentleGiantJoe]

I love this explanation. Not only is it truthful but also listening to gun grandpa crack jokes is somehow heartwarmingly funny.

[dobelEXP]

It's called a segment hight. 2-5 millimeters under your Ocular Center. Tell them you want a high segment intermediate reading power Bifocal.
Progressives may work better because it's based of head tilt. I was an optician.

[danefoss]

I lost vision in my dominant eye due to cancer 3 years ago. I appreciate you so much

[sterlingstoll]

I believe glasses are available with both top and bottom close vision. It's used by pilots who need to see the instruments and the overhead switches.

[echo]

I remember taking a couple of books seminars and trainings with my Father back in the late 70’s with LFI, this instructor was a legend then and is still a legend now 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💥💥💥💥

[markhamersly]

Mas my friend, I have NEVER seen this explained in a simpler nor clearer way in my 42 years of teaching Firearms. GREAT JOB!!!

[bobfromlogistics]

As an optician, I have made these for shooters. I've also made Double D style glasses for them as well which have the D28 bifocal on both bottom and top.

[chucknorris]

I went red dot. Solved the issue for me as you're target focused.

[PLF...]

I feel looked at and overlooked at the same time.

[bradmugleston]

You can get them both top and bottom. My dad was an airline pilot, with dials above and below his head he actually had 5 sections, normal in the center and two above and two below- this was before transition lenses.

[stevewilliams]

Great lesson... I have tried for years to get mine fixed like but no joy... time to try again...thanks Mas