Mulliganpaintdee
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What do you mean Owen? I sight with my right eye, so I should switch to my left?
Shooting with both eyes open
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same here. I've always put a viewfinder to my right eye but when I do the test by pointing at something my right eye is dominant and when I place a circle around something with my thumb and index finger my left eye is dominant. I think that why it seems that I am more accurate when I don't 'try' to aim but just point and shoot. I'm not real good at hitting a paper target dead center but have no problem busting clays that I just point and shoot at. I've got some work to do.
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DrBoomBoom, et. al.
This morning I'm left dominant, but I've always done my shooting [shotgun, pistol, rifle] aiming with my right.
Undoubltedly ????, some of my really poor shots may be traced to this problem.
Not sure how I'll react under stress.
Paul
DrBoomBoom, et. al.
This morning I'm left dominant, but I've always done my shooting [shotgun, pistol, rifle] aiming with my right.
Undoubltedly ????, some of my really poor shots may be traced to this problem.
Not sure how I'll react under stress.
Paul
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Mulligan, if you are left eye dominant, and are shooting handguns, it will be much easier for you to shoot with your left eye. just skooch the gun over an inch or so, so it's lined up with your left eye instead of you right.
If you are left eye dominant, trying to use your right eye, with both eyes open can be problematic. You'll be fighting the way your brain is wired.
If you are left eye dominant, trying to use your right eye, with both eyes open can be problematic. You'll be fighting the way your brain is wired.
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I learned gun fighting with a Rifle in the green machine and later with a handgun wearing some ugly itchy blue uniform. The trick was to line up the top of your sights, and in SHTF situation to just line up the front sight and level out the rear - it does work with a lot of training and the best way when in a combat situation where you need both eyes open. I'm getting more like Clint Eastwood in the unforgiven, usedto be a real good shot but I value the scattergun more everyday what with poorer eyesight creeping up on me due to age (can you say trifocals)?
BTW, I was taught to find the dominant eye by pointing at a distant object with both eyes open, then close one eye than the other, whichever eye sees the finger on the object is the dominant eye. I am right handed but have a dominant left eye. FWIW.
BTW, I was taught to find the dominant eye by pointing at a distant object with both eyes open, then close one eye than the other, whichever eye sees the finger on the object is the dominant eye. I am right handed but have a dominant left eye. FWIW.
Mulliganpaintdee
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that makes sense, never thought about shooting using my left eye. Thanks Owen
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Jeff22
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eye dominance
I'm right handed and have a left master eye.
I shoot a handgun from the Chapman stance (modified Weaver) and just slightly shift my head to the right to line the left eye up with the sights. Doesn't affect binocular sight or peripheral vision or any of that. It's not a big deal for most shooters.
I trained at the local regional police academy for 10 years and in the ANG for 10 years and as an LEO since 1982, and I think about 20% of the population has a cross dominant master eye.
When shooting rifle, I fire from the right shoulder, close my left eye, and shoot with the right eye. Some people (10%?) can't independently close one eye or the other and leave the other eye open (often can't close the master eye) and I'm not sure what the solution is for those folks when they're shooting a long gun. Some people have a greater natural tendency toward bilateralism/ambidexterity than others, and some can fire off the weak shoulder with some ability, but most people just can't do that.
I know a minority of instructors try to take a cross-dominant shooter (right handed -- left master eye, for example) and try to teach them to shoot left handed. That's worked well for some shooters and not at all for others . . .
I can't use occluded eye gunsights with my particular set of vision characteristics, and in my experience most cross-dominant shooters can't either, but I do know a few cross-dominant operators who can without significant difficulty. So, it's a little hard to come to a rule that's "carved in stone", particularly since a person's eye sight may significantly change over the course of their lifetime/shooting career.
The more "non-coincidental" your vision is, the more problems you might experience in adjusting to having a cross dominant master eye.
Being cross-dominant is not a big problem in shooting, but it is hard for anyone who is NOT cross-dominant to understand, since there is no practical way to duplicate the phenomenon.
I'm right handed and have a left master eye.
I shoot a handgun from the Chapman stance (modified Weaver) and just slightly shift my head to the right to line the left eye up with the sights. Doesn't affect binocular sight or peripheral vision or any of that. It's not a big deal for most shooters.
I trained at the local regional police academy for 10 years and in the ANG for 10 years and as an LEO since 1982, and I think about 20% of the population has a cross dominant master eye.
When shooting rifle, I fire from the right shoulder, close my left eye, and shoot with the right eye. Some people (10%?) can't independently close one eye or the other and leave the other eye open (often can't close the master eye) and I'm not sure what the solution is for those folks when they're shooting a long gun. Some people have a greater natural tendency toward bilateralism/ambidexterity than others, and some can fire off the weak shoulder with some ability, but most people just can't do that.
I know a minority of instructors try to take a cross-dominant shooter (right handed -- left master eye, for example) and try to teach them to shoot left handed. That's worked well for some shooters and not at all for others . . .
I can't use occluded eye gunsights with my particular set of vision characteristics, and in my experience most cross-dominant shooters can't either, but I do know a few cross-dominant operators who can without significant difficulty. So, it's a little hard to come to a rule that's "carved in stone", particularly since a person's eye sight may significantly change over the course of their lifetime/shooting career.
The more "non-coincidental" your vision is, the more problems you might experience in adjusting to having a cross dominant master eye.
Being cross-dominant is not a big problem in shooting, but it is hard for anyone who is NOT cross-dominant to understand, since there is no practical way to duplicate the phenomenon.
Mulliganpaintdee
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I went to the range yesterday with my SR9 and had no problems what-so-ever shooting with my left eye. I was using a weaver stance and only had to tilt my head a bit to put my left eye into place. Next practice is covering the right eye over and keeping it open.
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When I shoot with both eyes open, I see two targets and I aim for the middle one. lol
Seriously, when I shoot, there are two guns and one target. I always align the left gun in my sight picture with the target. If the left gun I see is lined up correctly (proper sight pic) then I'm on. I find that the left gun is the image I see out of my right eye (dominant) and if that's lined up its on. If I line up the the gun to the right, its my left eye and I end up shooting to the right. With enough practice, its just become automatic for me now to shoot that way.
I don't know if this works for you but it works for me. Then again, I have a tendency to go cross-eyed...
Seriously, when I shoot, there are two guns and one target. I always align the left gun in my sight picture with the target. If the left gun I see is lined up correctly (proper sight pic) then I'm on. I find that the left gun is the image I see out of my right eye (dominant) and if that's lined up its on. If I line up the the gun to the right, its my left eye and I end up shooting to the right. With enough practice, its just become automatic for me now to shoot that way.
I don't know if this works for you but it works for me. Then again, I have a tendency to go cross-eyed...
I keep both eyes open and focus on the target, just as I've had to in real life. I can see the front-sight fine, I'm in fact highly aware of it, I'm just not focused on it - I want to see what the threat is doing.
(No doubt some target-shooter will now come along and scold me for not focusing on the front-sight - and you know what, I don't care what works best on bullseyes)
(No doubt some target-shooter will now come along and scold me for not focusing on the front-sight - and you know what, I don't care what works best on bullseyes)
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