Zach S
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Both eyes open, unless I'm firing longarms from the correct shoulder (I normally shoot them wrong-handed).
aim with one eye or both eyes open
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Both eyes, most of the time. Sometimes, lighting and distance (like > 70 yards) are such that I need to squint the off (left) eye, but normally not at all.
Quickly shouldered my 7mm only to realize that my zoom scope had been left at 9X from checking zero the evening before - all I saw in the scope was brown.
Did I mention that the buck was moving fast?
Anyway - I shoot both eyes open. It allowed me to quickly acquire the target as needed.
FWIW - it turns out that 7mm Rem Mag is pretty effective at 15-20 yards too.
Once I was out deer hunting from a ground blind in a blizzard. At one point in the morning, I heard an animal breaking through the brush uphill to my right. It was a large buck, running full speed down the hill and about to cross my firing lane at a right angle, at only about 15-20 yards from me.
Quickly shouldered my 7mm only to realize that my zoom scope had been left at 9X from checking zero the evening before - all I saw in the scope was brown.
Did I mention that the buck was moving fast?
Anyway - I shoot both eyes open. It allowed me to quickly acquire the target as needed.
FWIW - it turns out that 7mm Rem Mag is pretty effective at 15-20 yards too.
DirksterG30
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Left eye open and right eye closed - I'm right-handed but left-eye dominant.
Borachon
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Both eyes shut.
This mirrors both my natural tendency toward excessive panic, and the reality that if someone attacks me at home after dark, I won't be able to see squat in a dark house.
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Next time Torpid, I'll read ALL the threads before posting...not just the first one.
This mirrors both my natural tendency toward excessive panic, and the reality that if someone attacks me at home after dark, I won't be able to see squat in a dark house.
Edit:
Next time Torpid, I'll read ALL the threads before posting...not just the first one.
Spieler
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I used to shoot with only my dominant eye open but now I shoot with both eyes open.
ChickenHawk
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It takes some getting used to, but I am a MUCH better shot since I started shooting with both eyes open. Much more comfortable too!
Cheers,
ChickenHawk
Cheers,
ChickenHawk
bountyhunter
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Same here. About ten years back my eyes strted twitching at random and squinting my eye made it a lot worse. Once I started shooting with two eyes, everything got easier.
eclipse1
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for defensive shooting, two eyes open. the field of vision will be wider and if we close the other eye for too long a time, blurry vision will result
ChickenHawk
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No offense to anyone (really!) but it concerns me a bit when I see people posting, "For defensive shooting I do this, but for target I do that".
You are what you practice!
If you squint at the range because you like your targets to be a bit prettier then you can bet you'll squint any time you raise your gun.
I have actually found that forcing myself to shoot both-eyes-open all the time made me a better overall shooter. I go to the range (at least) once a week and shoot (minimum of) 100 rounds. It took a few months of this before I found both-eyes-open to be totally natural and saw my accuracy IMPROVE over squinting one eye. But it was worth it.
Cheers,
ChickenHawk
You are what you practice!
If you squint at the range because you like your targets to be a bit prettier then you can bet you'll squint any time you raise your gun.
I have actually found that forcing myself to shoot both-eyes-open all the time made me a better overall shooter. I go to the range (at least) once a week and shoot (minimum of) 100 rounds. It took a few months of this before I found both-eyes-open to be totally natural and saw my accuracy IMPROVE over squinting one eye. But it was worth it.
Cheers,
ChickenHawk
orangeninja
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I use the both eyes open technique with ALL handguns out to about 50 feet...I squint a bit at 75 feet but both eyes are still open. I think you'll find you are much faster and more accurate this way.
With a rifle I shoot with both eyes open if scoped...you are more relaxed and not distorting the image or stressing your eyes this way...if using irons, I use one eye.
Shotgun is both eyes at close range (self defense) and one eye for hunting.
With a rifle I shoot with both eyes open if scoped...you are more relaxed and not distorting the image or stressing your eyes this way...if using irons, I use one eye.
Shotgun is both eyes at close range (self defense) and one eye for hunting.
Carl N. Brown
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Both eyes open.
Also, shooting rifle at 100 yards right handed:
with target viewed with left eye, sight picture with
right eye superimposed on target (left eye is near
20-20 right eye is badly nearsighted: with left eye
focused on target, right eye is focused on
front blade). Sounds screwy but works.
Also, shooting rifle at 100 yards right handed:
with target viewed with left eye, sight picture with
right eye superimposed on target (left eye is near
20-20 right eye is badly nearsighted: with left eye
focused on target, right eye is focused on
front blade). Sounds screwy but works.
Therapydude
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I'm right hand/eye dominant, but when I shoot a handgun, I use my left eye (keeping both eyes open). I've tried using my right eye with both eyes open, but it just doesn't work for me. Guess I rotate my head to the right, making my left eye closer to the gun. Anyone else use their non-dominant eye with both eyes open?
Zach S
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Depends. For pistols, I dont think its a big deal (I'm right handed/left eyed). For longarms, it was a problem, until I switched shoulders. I shoot longarms much better lefthanded, I have ever since I tried it.
Therapydude, maybe your left eye is dominant while shooting a pistol, yet your right eye while shooting a longarm. I've heard of it before, exactly twice. Counting this time...
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