cross eye dominant

[charlielikesczs]

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?

[Luvdog]

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

[eastman]

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). 

[m1a_scoutguy]

This may help,,good info !
https://www.trex-arms.com/videos/Sg394ZJ2kD/

[recoilguy]

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

[OldGringo]

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.

[sberres]

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.

[Rcher]

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.

[armoredman]

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...

[HollowDawg]

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.

[timmy75]

i got something different, if someone could help ill be thankful.
right hand, right eye dominant.

but my sight picture looks like this.



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.

[recoilguy]

get it fixed.....It works wonders.
I had it done on both my eyes.

RCG

[Rmach]

I just close my left eye since I'm right handed and left eye dominant.  I've been doing that for almost 50 years.

[rg422]

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.

[the war wagon]

i got something different, if someone could help ill be thankful.
right hand, right eye dominant.

but my sight picture looks like this.



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.