seeing double when sighting with both eyes open...?

[ziadel]

hello everyone

I'm having a bit of a weird problem when shooting. If I sight with both eyes open, using my right eye to focus on the front sight (I am right eye dominant) I see double (the target) and can't shoot very well. If I focus on the front sight with my left eye I am able to hit a lot better. If I sight with one eye closed, either eye works equally well.


Now I know I am right eye dominant. Whenever I do that hand triangle thing I always pull back to my right eye.

Should I just keep using the left eye when both my eyes are open, or what?

It's an odd problem to say the least.

 

[Scottmkiv]

I have the same problem (except I am left handed and left eye dominant) I get downright dizzy if I try and focus on the site with both eyes open.

 

[pax]

I'm having a bit of a weird problem when shooting. If I sight with both eyes open, using my right eye to focus on the front sight (I am right eye dominant) I see double (the target) and can't shoot very well. If I focus on the front sight with my left eye I am able to hit a lot better.

If your left eye works for you, and your right eye does not, it doesn't matter what the little triangle hand test thing shows -- your left eye is functioning as the dominant eye while you are shooting.

Not a problem. Just use your left eye instead of your right.

pax

 

[ziadel]

should I start shooting my rifles lefty as well?

 

[MTMilitiaman]

Do what you have to do to put holes in your target. If the only way for you to do that is to spin on your head, then spin on your head or find another hobby.

I have the same problem when I shoot both eyes open with iron sights. I am right handed but left eye dominant. So when I shoot both eyes open I have to reflex shoot by focusing on the target and bringing the firearm into my vision. I am decent shooting clays this way with the shotgun and can get by with my AK but need work with my Glock. Luckily, the Glock's slide is like an aircraft carrier and the sight is big enough that I don't have too much trouble getting it on target, just with being fast and consistant enough to be accurate.

Practice makes perfect. My suggestion barring access to proper training is to find what works for you and practice till your thumbs are too sore to load more magazines. Then hit it again the next day.

 

[jlh26oo]

Do what you have to do to put holes in your target. If the only way for you to do that is to spin on your head, then spin on your head...

My range doesn't allow this.

 

[perception]

I am cross dominant when it comes to shooting. I just had to break down and use my right eye with my left had grip. My shooting improved immediately. It may not be proper form, but when proper doesn't work, it doesn't work.

 

[Lennyjoe]

You can shoot a pistol with either hand depending on your stance.

As for rifles and shotguns, you should probably start looking into shooting left handed. A bit different when you are aiming at objects at a farther distance.

I'm right handed and left eye dominant. I learned at an early age to shoot lefty with guns and bows. It isnt hard to to at all.

 

[Dionysusigma]

As far as shooting goes, I figured out I'm both ambidextrous and ambiocular (if that's even a word). I personally can't stand to shoot, however, with both eyes open for all that long. The reason why is strange, but the reason why it's not important is even stranger.

If I shoot with both eyes open, I tend to look at the target more than I do the sights. As a result, I see two pistols, two sets of sights, two overlapping sets of hands, etc. Which one do I line up on target?

Turns out, as long as one of the sets of sights are lined up, the rest is too. Kinda line Einstein's theory of Relativity in action. Even if the other set looks horribly wrong, all you need is one eye knowing what's going on. If you shift your grip so that the other set lines up, you're still on target--just oriented to the other eye, is all. Heck, I even tried lining up a shot where I aimed down the slides, not using the set of sights at all. Worked OK, but impractical.

These days, if I shoot with both eyes open, the pistol is off at an angle where my nose blocks the view from the not-dominate-at-the-time eye, but it can still see what's going on in its general direction. Or just point-shoot.

If anyone would like pics of what I'm talking about, lemme know. I'm kinda confused reading back over this, and I'm bored anyway.

 

[deadin]

I've always found that for precision shooting (i.e. competition target) you shoud be concentrating on the sights, not the target. It's kind of like using a peep sight. The bull will find its way to the center. I use a presciption lens (I can't see the sights otherwise. ) and the focus point is the front sight. A diopter helps put all three items (front, rear sights and target on the same plane, but the least important is the target.
The reason for shooting with both eyes open is you have to tense up some muscles in you face to close an eye and tenseness is bad. A lot of the shooters around here use a blinder on their off eye.
Now I realize that using a lens and blinder is not going to cut it for self-defense, but that's a whole 'nother subject.


Dean

 

[Jim101]

Is it an option for you to use a Red Dot? Red Dots' make "both eyes open" shooting for me real easy.......

Jim