I'm relatively new to shotgunning, but I am really starting to enjoy it and have been trying to go sporting clay shooting, or sometimes skeet, somewhat consistently once or twice a month. I need some help though, with what to do with my eyes and sight picture.
I am used to shooting with both eyes open, in the past I have done mostly handgun shooting. So when I try to keep my eyes on the clay, I cannot tell exactly what my barrel is doing and where it is (it seems blurred and almost like a double picture) which is making it more difficult to tell what I do wrong when I miss. It is also tough to tell exactly how much lead I have, I just know I have some lead. I go with a friend who closes his nondominant eye, but that doesn't seem to be the right thing to do to me. What should I do or what should I practice? Or do I just need to shoot more and get more practice and experience?
Maybe it's tough because I am used to having both eyes open and focusing on my front sight and now I am having to tell myself to get my eye on the clay rather than my sights and I am not used to that and I really have to reorient myself.
I am used to shooting with both eyes open, in the past I have done mostly handgun shooting. So when I try to keep my eyes on the clay, I cannot tell exactly what my barrel is doing and where it is (it seems blurred and almost like a double picture) which is making it more difficult to tell what I do wrong when I miss. It is also tough to tell exactly how much lead I have, I just know I have some lead. I go with a friend who closes his nondominant eye, but that doesn't seem to be the right thing to do to me. What should I do or what should I practice? Or do I just need to shoot more and get more practice and experience?
Maybe it's tough because I am used to having both eyes open and focusing on my front sight and now I am having to tell myself to get my eye on the clay rather than my sights and I am not used to that and I really have to reorient myself.