westernrover
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I was working on stance for handgun and being aware that I'm left-eyed (and cross) dominant, I would bring the sights up to my left eye. I noticed that I could see much better using a Weaver or Chapman type stance and if I tried Isoceles or any stance where I was standing square to the target, my vision was confused. Looking in the mirror I realized why.
When I take a stance where I turn oblique to the target, I can rotate my head on an azimuth so my dominant eye is lined up with the target, and my non-dominant eye is partially blocked by my nose! I was selecting my left eye by partially obscuring the vision of my right eye, the same way we might squint or close a dominant eye to select the other. If I face the target squarely and focus on the sight in the nearfield, I get double-vision no matter what I eye I line up with the sights.
If I use common eye-dominance tests like forming a triangle with my hands and framing a distant object, I can alternate left and right eye quickly, repeatedly, and at will while keeping both eyes open. It would seem that if I have a dominant eye, the dominance is very weak.
I can use whatever eye I bring my sights up to, but if I do not obscure the other eye some way (squinting or blocking it with the bridge of my nose), my vision switches back and forth. I don't want to practice bad habits like squinting, closing or blocking an eye. What should I practice?
When I take a stance where I turn oblique to the target, I can rotate my head on an azimuth so my dominant eye is lined up with the target, and my non-dominant eye is partially blocked by my nose! I was selecting my left eye by partially obscuring the vision of my right eye, the same way we might squint or close a dominant eye to select the other. If I face the target squarely and focus on the sight in the nearfield, I get double-vision no matter what I eye I line up with the sights.
If I use common eye-dominance tests like forming a triangle with my hands and framing a distant object, I can alternate left and right eye quickly, repeatedly, and at will while keeping both eyes open. It would seem that if I have a dominant eye, the dominance is very weak.
I can use whatever eye I bring my sights up to, but if I do not obscure the other eye some way (squinting or blocking it with the bridge of my nose), my vision switches back and forth. I don't want to practice bad habits like squinting, closing or blocking an eye. What should I practice?