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GENERAL => General Discussion => Topic started by: charlielikesczs on August 14, 2019, 08:01:38 PM
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I shoot right handed but i am left eye dominant. I close my left eye and just use my right eye when shooting pistols and rifles. I have tried shooting with both eyes open but i just get two targets and/or two sets of sights. Just wondering if anyone else has this issue and what works best for you?
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I’m right handed and let eye dominant. I shoot long guns lefty.
For pistols I used to close my left eye. I’ve been re-training myself to either keep both eyes open or if I have to close my right eye. My accuracy has suffered but I’m hoping that comes back.
I’m also starting to use red dots... that’s made things much better with keeping both eyes open
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I am also right handed, left eye dominant.
I shoot pistols using the isosceles stance and use my left eye (right eye partially or mostly closed).
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This may help,,good info !
https://www.trex-arms.com/videos/Sg394ZJ2kD/
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I’m right handed and let eye dominant. I shoot long guns lefty.
For pistols I used to close my left eye. I’ve been re-training myself to either keep both eyes open or if I have to close my right eye. My accuracy has suffered but I’m hoping that comes back.
I’m also starting to use red dots... that’s made things much better with keeping both eyes open
Same here except the red dot.....I just cant get used to the red dot.
Long guns and shot guns left eyed left handed hand guns right eye left eye closed
Works great for me.
RCG
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I'm right-handed left eye dominant. For pistols I've had great success turning my head to the right and lining up my left eye center-line with my torso and on the sights. This allows me to shoot with both eyes open with no problem. With practice this becomes muscle memory and I automatically do this when I draw/present the pistol. I don't even think about it.
For carbine/rifle, I also shoot right-handed. If I use either magnified optics or iron sights I have to close my left eye. With zero magnification red dots I shoot with both eyes open. The sight picture combines in my vision so the dot hovers in space in front of my eyes and I can make my hits no problem. This is assuming you are correctly zeroed and you're not in the parallax zone with the reticle inside the outer-third diameter of the window in most red dots (minus Eotechs and supposedly the newest Aimpoints). If you have astigmatism, there are zero magnification sights with etched reticles.
A previous poster already included a link to a T.rex arms video that might be helpful to some people.
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Hmmmm, I always used to shoot, write, and eat left handed. Always thought it normal to close one eye to shoot. Even have a left handed bolt rifle. Then I got a Lone Eagle that was NOT ambi friendly. Decided that before sanding off the thumbrest I’d try it right handed. Worked out fine and I can’t really fathom shooting a pistol in my left hand normally any longer. I can also keep both eyes open now. But not if I put a rifle in my left hand. They didn’t talk about this cross eye dominant stuff back then. I’ve even gotten so I can shoot rifles right handed easier than left. I still want to manipulate them the other way from time to time, but I keep practicing. A handgun just doesn’t feel as right anymore when it’s left. But it really isn’t too odd to do weak side drills, either.
Not everyone can make the switch. It always used to be that you were either righty or lefty. (Normal or weird) There’s differing degrees of dominant sides, apparently.
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I'm right-handed left eye dominant. For pistols I've had great success turning my head to the right and lining up my left eye center-line with my torso and on the sights. This allows me to shoot with both eyes open with no problem. With practice this becomes muscle memory and I automatically do this when I draw/present the pistol. I don't even think about it.
For carbine/rifle, I also shoot right-handed. If I use either magnified optics or iron sights I have to close my left eye. With zero magnification red dots I shoot with both eyes open. The sight picture combines in my vision so the dot hovers in space in front of my eyes and I can make my hits no problem. This is assuming you are correctly zeroed and you're not in the parallax zone with the reticle inside the outer-third diameter of the window in most red dots (minus Eotechs and supposedly the newest Aimpoints). If you have astigmatism, there are zero magnification sights with etched reticles.
A previous poster already included a link to a T.rex arms video that might be helpful to some people.
OldGringo, I'm doing exactly what you do. Both for pistols and rifles. I also have mild astigmatism, so when shooting rifle with red-dot it's not so great experience. I'm using peep from rear sights to fix red dot, but have to close left eye - other wise I see two dots :(
It's interesting idea to find zero-magnification sights to combine it wit red dot.
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I an older guy and by the time someone said that I should have an issue being right handed, left eye dominant, I just figured out how to shoot that way, head tilted enough to get a sight picture with my left eye. My Class Sergeant in the Academy told me I was going to shoot left handed - I said I will shoot right handed and score Expert. I graduated top in the class. This included training myself over the years, (again, accidentally, because nobody told me I had a problem), to use my right eye when shooting rifles. I can use both eyes open with a red dot, no problem, but it took a little work, because by the time I had my first red dot, well, someone had told me I had a problem...
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Same issue right handed/left eyed. I shoot rifles and strangely enough a bow left handed. Also play guitar left handed. ?? Beats me. Anyway, for pistols I shoot right handed but I use what I guess could be called a "modified" isosceles stance. Facing target I take about a step(as in one shoe length) forward with my left foot. Seems to bring all my parts and pistol parts more in line with the target. One eye or both eyes doesn't seem to make a significant difference in my accuracy. I am very left eye dominant. For those of us who are right handed/left eye dominant, shooting right ejection semi-auto rifles and black powder rifles left handed is always interesting. Don't even get me started on flintlock rifles. won't go there again.... :( ::) Have a friend who has a left handed bolt rifle. was hilarious watching right handers try to manipulate the bolt. So used to shooting right handed bolt rifles my whole life that reaching across the receiver with my left hand to manipulate a right handed bolt is second nature. Never occurred to me how awkward it would be for a righty to work a left handed bolt.
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i got something different, if someone could help ill be thankful.
right hand, right eye dominant.
but my sight picture looks like this.
(https://abload.de/thumb/untitledqwkri.png) (https://abload.de/image.php?img=untitledqwkri.png)
after ophthalmological examination they told me i have astigmatism @ right (dominant eye).
when i shoot fast with booth eyes open, i tend to shoot left. green dot at front sight looks like star (not dot) shining down and left.
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get it fixed.....It works wonders.
I had it done on both my eyes.
RCG
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I just close my left eye since I'm right handed and left eye dominant. I've been doing that for almost 50 years.
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I'm left handed, but right eye dominant, which made shooting difficult; at least for me. I started shooting handguns a little over a year ago and was introduced to USPSA earlier this year. It was either adapt to shooting cross-sided, or learn to shoot with my right hand. I chose the latter, per multiple recommendations. In hindsight, I'm glad I did it, as I was(am) still learning how to shoot, anyways. It was cumbersome at first, but after months of dry/live firing, shooting with my right hand has become natural.
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i got something different, if someone could help ill be thankful.
right hand, right eye dominant.
but my sight picture looks like this.
(https://abload.de/thumb/untitledqwkri.png) (https://abload.de/image.php?img=untitledqwkri.png)
after ophthalmological examination they told me i have astigmatism @ right (dominant eye).
when i shoot fast with booth eyes open, i tend to shoot left. green dot at front sight looks like star (not dot) shining down and left.
Geez... I wonder if that's why I keep shooting level, but left? Astigmatism hasn't been as much an issue with rifles, since I discovered the 2moa Aimpoint. That, and I rarely shoot beyond 50 yards. But my .45 has been going left on me for a while, no matter WHAT I do - and I'm right eye dominant. :-\
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I'm right-handed left eye dominant. For pistols I've had great success turning my head to the right and lining up my left eye center-line with my torso and on the sights. This allows me to shoot with both eyes open with no problem. With practice this becomes muscle memory and I automatically do this when I draw/present the pistol. I don't even think about it.
For carbine/rifle, I also shoot right-handed. If I use either magnified optics or iron sights I have to close my left eye. With zero magnification red dots I shoot with both eyes open. The sight picture combines in my vision so the dot hovers in space in front of my eyes and I can make my hits no problem. This is assuming you are correctly zeroed and you're not in the parallax zone with the reticle inside the outer-third diameter of the window in most red dots (minus Eotechs and supposedly the newest Aimpoints). If you have astigmatism, there are zero magnification sights with etched reticles.
A previous poster already included a link to a T.rex arms video that might be helpful to some people.
Thks right here. When I first decided I wanted to shoot with both eyes open I first tried shooting lefty. After about a year of practice I was still below my ability when I shot right handed with one eye open. One day I tried turning ny head to the right (not too much, the left eye should be at or just to the left of the centerline of your body). It was a game changer. Now I shoot both eyes open pistol or unmagnified rifle. Magnified rifle or irons with rifle I usually close one eye. I actually like shooting cross dominant pistol because, with the gun directly in the centerline of your body, it is easier to have the ideal amount of grip pressure and not have the gun tracking left or right when shooting.
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I actually like shooting cross dominant pistol because, with the gun directly in the centerline of your body, it is easier to have the ideal amount of grip pressure and not have the gun tracking left or right when shooting.
So your stance is more isosceles, than Weaver?
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So your stance is more isosceles, than Weaver?
I don't think it makes much of a difference since your upper body should generally be square to the target in both stances.
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So your stance is more isosceles, than Weaver?
I don't think it makes much of a difference since your upper body should generally be square to the target in both stances.
INTERESTINGLY enough, I dropped back to my old Ruger Mk.III for some work on my stance this past Monday. I decided to TRY Isosceles starting with my second mag, and WOW... WOTTA difference it made!!! :o
I heard from some friends on another forum, that the Weaver stance died with Jeff Cooper, apparently (nobody bothered to tell ME, though! ??? ), and Isosceles is once again de rigueur. Save for the occasional flier, 390 rds. of .22 were bullseyes, thereafter. I felt like taping my targets to the fridge, like the kid who comes home with an "A" on his test! :P
I now have something to work on, experiment with, and re-evaluate at the range - see what else I can straighten out, before taking another pistol class. It DID feel good to shoot bullseyes again - I was STARTING to think I might be getting old...
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I’m right handed and let eye dominant. I shoot long guns lefty.
Same for me.
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Right handed left eye dominant.
Dry fire all the time. Living room, reloading room, dining room table etc.
Both eyes open all the time. The more you do it the easier it gets. The dry firing in a quiet setting allowed me to focus easier.
Then as I brought it to live fire I took it slower. After 100 to 150 rounds it seemed harder to maintain immediate focus. Didn't push it. If fatigue was making it harder I'd blip my right eye shut and open it so I knew I had that front post locked in.
Id give some more ideas like putting a paster over the lens of your right eye but I've got to go dry fire some
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My dominant eye is LEFT, but I do not have a dominant hand. I've started shooting right hand, seemed to be more natural for me, but after few days I found it a little difficult for me.
I was told on the range to try to shoot with left hand, even if that did't work for the beginning. After few next days spent on the range and dry firing at home a was able to learn how to shoot left hand perfectly. Next step was both eyes open.
Now I can say (my kids followed this advice) it is much easier to learn to shoot the other hand than adjust your stand and turn your hands or head for proper sight alignment.
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My dominant eye is LEFT, but I do not have a dominant hand. I've started shooting right hand, seemed to be more natural for me, but after few days I found it a little difficult for me.
I was told on the range to try to shoot with left hand, even if that did't work for the beginning. After few next days spent on the range and dry firing at home a was able to learn how to shoot left hand perfectly. Next step was both eyes open.
Now I can say (my kids followed this advice) it is much easier to learn to shoot the other hand than adjust your stand and turn your hands or head for proper sight alignment.
Interesting. My left hand is weaker, so I can't shoot with one hand whatever I do.
I also tried to shoot rifle with my left hand, but I can't even align scope or iron sights with my left eye. I don't know what is wrong with my skeleton build up, but I'm 100% right-handed
There's only one thing which I do left-handed - play poker and other card games :D
Learned to play with my grandma when I was kid, so I just "mirrored" her.
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Interesting. My left hand is weaker, so I can't shoot with one hand whatever I do.
I also tried to shoot rifle with my left hand, but I can't even align scope or iron sights with my left eye. I don't know what is wrong with my skeleton build up, but I'm 100% right-handed
There's only one thing which I do left-handed - play poker and other card games :D
Learned to play with my grandma when I was kid, so I just "mirrored" her.
Learning and practice ends with perfection. Shooting is like driving a car or bike - just try and practice.
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I am left eye dominate and shoot with both eyes open. At first I had to close my right eye but after
practice practice practice I can now shoot with both eyes open.
FYI I shoot long guns left handed.
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I just learned this was a thing from the Chris Sajnog videos online. I was trying all different strengths of readers. Getting frustrated and thinking maybe I was just too blind to enjoy shooting. Then I moved to gun ove in front of my left eye and was amazed! Its like a whole new world. I have to keep both eyes open as I just can't get the right eye closed.
I'm still thinking of getting safety glasses with the bifocal lenses on top. Just because my regular progressive lenses are hard to look kind of crossways through.
I just realized my CZ will be a month old tomorrow!
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I'm Wife eye dominant !!!
Doesn't matter which eye I use, the dang spouse will outshoot me. I'm starting to believe she could close both eyes and score better. Guess I'm paying the price for "robbing the cradle" LOL !
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i got something different, if someone could help ill be thankful.
right hand, right eye dominant.
but my sight picture looks like this.
(https://abload.de/thumb/untitledqwkri.png) (https://abload.de/image.php?img=untitledqwkri.png)
after ophthalmological examination they told me i have astigmatism @ right (dominant eye).
when i shoot fast with booth eyes open, i tend to shoot left. green dot at front sight looks like star (not dot) shining down and left.
Yup have same problem, especially with RDS. Not so bad with iron sights. For me, I have my dominant eye lens set for the front sight and my non dominant eye set for distance on my shooting glasses. However, can’t use that set up with RDS :(
And lasik failed for me miserably- long story.
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I’m right handed left eye dominant. I’ve been able to train myself to shoot with 2 eyes luckily.
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i got something different, if someone could help ill be thankful.
right hand, right eye dominant.
but my sight picture looks like this.
(https://abload.de/thumb/untitledqwkri.png) (https://abload.de/image.php?img=untitledqwkri.png)
after ophthalmological examination they told me i have astigmatism @ right (dominant eye).
when i shoot fast with booth eyes open, i tend to shoot left. green dot at front sight looks like star (not dot) shining down and left.
Geez... I wonder if that's why I keep shooting level, but left? Astigmatism hasn't been as much an issue with rifles, since I discovered the 2moa Aimpoint. That, and I rarely shoot beyond 50 yards. But my .45 has been going left on me for a while, no matter WHAT I do - and I'm right eye dominant. :-\
You are probably jerking the trigger. Squeeze the trigger gently at the break, and you will be back on center.
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I’ve sometimes had a tendency to pull left for other reasons than the classic ones and I’ve found through some slow and dry fire exercise that I will easily tend to favor pulling the sight to that side; just sort of where my hand likes to point. Sometimes I can get around it easily and other times I just keep drifting that way. Seems more prevalent with indoor lighting. At other times it is me yanking the trigger and I often recognize poor hand/grip control right away, but at times it’s just the way I’m aligning the sights-and it’s going right where I was pointing.
It’s still my fault, but two common reasons why I miss left.
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Right handed with dominant left eye here. One thing that seems to work for me is shooting two eyes open with the weapon slightly canted to the left vs holding so that the sights are square with the ground. Seems to work pretty well with iron sights, but especially well with anything using a red dot sight. YMMV.
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I am also left eye/right hand. I shoot with both eyes open, head facing straight ahead but I move the gun very slightly to the left when shooting.
I went cross eyed and saw two targets when I first tried it but a lot of dry firing in the garage and I don't even think about it.
My shooting partner used to turn his head way to the right when he shot. I mentioned it to him and he did not know he was doing it. He is also left eye dominant right handed. He started taking lessons from a local police trainer and top competition shooter and he got his head looking straight forward pretty quickly!
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I am also right handed, left eye dominant.
I shoot pistols using the isosceles stance and use my left eye (right eye partially or mostly closed).
+1.