Teach a kid: right-handed, left-eye dominant

[ryoushi]

I'm left eye dominant right handed. I Didn't know about the left eye thing until my early 20s. But when I got my Red Ryder BB gun at age 8 I just naturally fired it left handed and my dad didn't say anything as I was hitting everything I aimed at. Been shooting lefty ever since.

Biggest problems are having to have those flimsy ambi-safeties fitted to my 1911 and trying to find affordable, short action rifles. If you like Glocks and leveractions, it's not a problem at all.

 

[sicario103]

Posted by cpileri

So naturally, when he grabs a rifle and aims, he puts the stock to his left shoulder, aims with his left eye; but holds his right-hand on the trigger/handle, and the left arm extended. This is his intuitive stance.

I don't think it's a good idea to do that, it can be even dangerous too especially if he's shooting at a moving target.

I too am right handed and left eye dominant. With pistols, I don't have problem shooting right handed since I just lean my head abit more to the right side and aim with my left eye. Ofcourse, I only shoot with both my eyes opened. Now with long guns, I do have problems. I tried left handed but I can't seem to hit anything this way since it felt completely awkward for me. So I forced myself to shoot right handed and with my right eye. After some time at the range, I can say that I'm doing just find shooting right handed with a left eye dominance.

Personally I think it's better to retrain your eye than your body. And since your kid is still young.

 

[CB900F]

Cpileri;

My daughter is naturally right handed & always shot from the right shoulder. Her accuracy was quite good, but not national level. Just for grins, several years ago, we did the eye-dominance test. Whoa!! She's left eye dominant.

So, she switched. Once the initial familiarization period passed, her accuracy improved about a solid 10%. Therefore, from personal experience, I feel that ACP is all wet in his opinion. Shoot the dominant eye. All of us can shoot off either shoulder, but accuracy always follows shooting with the dominant eye.

900F