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Offline sberres

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Re: cross eye dominant
« Reply #30 on: December 04, 2019, 02:39:37 PM »
  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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Offline CZShooterP01

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Re: cross eye dominant
« Reply #31 on: March 01, 2020, 04:42:07 PM »
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.

Offline oldfrank

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Re: cross eye dominant
« Reply #32 on: March 04, 2020, 07:54:26 PM »
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!

Offline RSR

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Re: cross eye dominant
« Reply #33 on: March 06, 2020, 02:34:13 PM »
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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